Control of America's ports increasingly is being placed in foreign hands.
 
Dubai Ports World has won a bidding war for control of British-owned Peninsular and Oriental (P&O) Steam Navigation Co.  Dubai is one of the small Islamic countries in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) located adjacent to Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.
 
The purchase gives Dubai Ports World control of six U.S. ports - New York-New Jersey, Miami, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Orleans. 
 
This development has not drawn opposition from Homeland Security officials, even though they have labeled ports as potential terrorist targets.
 
The deal reportedly was approved by the top-secret U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the same crowd that cleared the way for China to bid for Unocal and for ownership of U.S. airlines by foreign competitors.  They determined that there was no security risk.
 
No Security risk?  “Dubai Ports, after all, is owned by the United Arab Emirates, whose banking system - considered the commercial center of the Arab world - provided most of the cash for the 9/11 hijackers. Indeed, much of the operational planning for the World Trade Center attacks took place inside the UAE.” 
  
Lou Dobbs reports that David Sannborne, the man nominated by Bush to run the top-secret U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, is Director of Operations for Europe and Latin America for Dubai Ports World.

Hmmm...  How do you pronounce Dubai?  Dubya?