Is there a DP/UAE - USS Cole bombing link?

kstewart33

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Wed Mar-01-06 06:21 PM
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Is there a DP/UAE - USS Cole bombing link?

I heard this on Ed Schultz this afternoon. A caller said that DPI (which later merged with DP World) ran the port where the USS Cole bombing occurred in October 2000. My question is: did the UAE own DPI at that time, and did indeed the DPI manage that port?

I've googled it and have not had much luck. Can anyone help? Because if this it true, it's big news, or should be.

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RagingInMiami

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Wed Mar-01-06 06:28 PM
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1. Haven't you heard the justifications

The UAE has been cooperating with us on the war on terror since 9/11. Anything before that: ancient history.

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dweller

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Wed Mar-01-06 09:22 PM
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2. yes, i heard that too on Big Ed's show

the company was under another name at the time, and perhaps not involved with security, but with management ...

nothing further on his webpage. . . :shrug:

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Sydnie

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Wed Mar-01-06 09:29 PM
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3. I asked that question to a while ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=550199&mesg_id=550199

I thought maybe I was one of the few that heard it and I too, thought it was a big deal and wanted more info about it.

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Wordie

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Wed Mar-01-06 09:40 PM
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4. Are the UAE citizens really Martians, intent on taking over the universe?

Come on...do we really have to repeat every unsubstantiated rumor that the RW neocons plant??? Somebody said that the 9/11 bombers bought the box cutters at Walmart. Maybe Walmart is involved in terrorism too.

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Sydnie

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Wed Mar-01-06 10:12 PM
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5. How do you know it is just a rumor?

I was in a bad signal area for my radio and it was cutting in and out but he didn't sound like a plant. He sounded like he had remembered something and followed it where it led. (not unlike we do here at DU) I didn't get all the info or I would be searching it down myself, to find out if it's real or not.

So, do you know that it's not real?

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yellowdogmi

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Wed Mar-01-06 10:48 PM
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6. I looked for a connection the other night

And could not come up with it other than a rough relation geographically. (?new word)

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