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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (45579)	2/23/2006 7:10:50 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 90947

Hey, I got an idea. Let's give the contract to a North Korean company. I doubt they would do a good job, I doubt they could afford it, and most importantly the country is essentially and enemy of ours unlike UAE. You DO know that country of birth and family history was considered in granting security clearances during the Cold War, don't you? Yup. There were numerous contracts where all cleared workers had to be American citizens and access to numerous documents was denied to any foreign national. Such restrictions haven't entirely gone away. ---- If they could get a nuke in to the container ship the people who run the port would be irrelevant, it could be set to blow up in a major harbor city. Of course bio or chem weapons are perhaps more likely than nukes and would be a lot more useful to terrorists after unloading than in the harbor. I understand that one of the reasons the British company sold was that they didn't want to spend the money on the security upgrades that the UAW company will. The employees will be unionized Americans even if a foreign company is in charge. Also Americans will be in charge of security. I'm not sure the risk increases with this sale. That d*ed DOD sure is prejudiced! Just ask Colin Powell. Other have claimed that opposition is based on prejudice. I have not. Tim