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To: Elroy who wrote (278602)	3/6/2006 1:53:18 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 1572004

RE: "What really interests them are the P&O holdings in India and China." While the USA gets defocused onto outdated 50s issues like abortion, India and China will leap ahead of the USA. We are really screwed because our leaders are so screwed up. They are focused on the wrong issues.

To: Elroy who wrote (278602)	3/7/2006 5:56:29 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572004

A controversial ports deal has raised new questions about the booming Arab sheikdom. Inside one of the world's most modern, and yet mysterious, monarchies. msnbc.msn.com Acquisitions are key to DP World's expansion strategy, but it got its new U.S. holdings almost by accident, as part of the deal when it purchased P&O of Britain last year. The P&O-controlled terminals in the United States would require major investment to bring them up to the cutting-edge standard of DP World facilities at home in Dubai. "Believe me, they didn't set out to acquire six small properties in the U.S.," says Stephen Flynn, a transport expert at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. "What really interests them are the P&O holdings in India and China." The above may well be true but one of the Muslims who is involved with the ownership of the company was on the tube the other nite saying that he saw no reason why the deal should not go through. Not very political of him but then he is a citizen of an autocratic society so he doesn't have to worry about such stuff.