BUSH ADMIN HIRING CHINESE CO TO DETECT NUKES INSIDE CARGO!

Bush Admin. Hiring Chinese Company To Detect Nukes Inside Cargo Heading To US…



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/23/bush-admin-hiring-chines_n_17782.html

U.S. Hiring Chinese Co. to Scan Nukes By TED BRIDIS and JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writers
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WASHINGTON - In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.


The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. represents the first time a foreign company will be involved in running a sophisticated U.S. radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agents present.

Freeport in the Bahamas is 65 miles from the U.S. coast, where cargo would be likely to be inspected again. The contract is currently being finalized.

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Hutchison Whampoa is the world's largest ports operator and among the industry's most-respected companies. It was an early adopter of U.S. anti-terror measures. But its billionaire chairman, Li Ka-Shing, also has substantial business ties to China's government that have raised U.S. concerns over the years.

"Li Ka-Shing is pretty close to a lot of senior leaders of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party," said Larry M. Wortzel, head of a U.S. government commission that studies China security and economic issues. But Wortzel said Hutchison operates independently from Beijing, and he described Li as "a very legitimate international businessman."

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just as loud as they were about Dubai!!

Hong Kong already has a system in place that checks every piece of cargo going in and out of Hong Kong

Dubai had associations with al queada, Hong Kong/China has not

Tell me the company in the U.S. that will do it?

Capable of doing??????


Do you trust the Chinese???

Outsource our jobs, get paid low wages for the jobs still here, foreign workers being hired for the hi-tech jobs, and foreign companies "securing" our country.

That's the American way I guess.

This shows that after 9/11 nothing has been done, and now they are desperate to get something done quickly

the problem isn't that we can't do it, but that comapnies just are too fat and happy, and just want to off shore

It is a sad state of affairs that the corporations have contributed to outsourcing inovation

Hutchison is the world's largest port operator.

http://www.hph.com.hk/business/ports/ports.htm

Assuming that because the major shareholder is Chinese, the company is not to be trusted seems incredibly racist. What basis do you have for asking that question besides racism?

doing this???? Idiots!

-- Joseph Stalin

There seem to be more attributions to Stalin, however.

Maybe one of them said it when they were talking to the other. Or maybe Stalin just changed historical accounts as he often did, and inserted his own name where Lenin's was. :shrug:

of history didn't he...I thought the most fascinating thing he did was alter the official photos and paintings....

Every piece of cargo going in and out of Hong Kong is checked, something we DO NOT DO

It is NOT that we cannot do it, but if we want to insure something up as quickly as possible before something bad happens, this is the fastest track

and NOT just selected cargo, EVERY PIECE OF CARGO

too many people here have been saying it would be too costly, well China is doing it.

They also said the same thing about airport security. El Al has been doing it for years, and hand checking each piece of lugage which we don't even do

Name the company in the U.S. that you would suggest do it?

:crazy:

don't get me wrong, I really think we should be doing it. This shows after 9/11 just how little we have really done to make things secure

"Giving a no-bid contract to a foreign company to carry out the most sensitive security screening for radioactive materials at ports abroad raises many questions," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

A low-paid employee with access to the screening equipment could frustrate international security by studying how the equipment works and which materials set off its alarms, warned a retired U.S. Customs investigator who specialized in smuggling cases.

"Money buys a lot of things," Robert Sheridan said. "The fact that foreign workers would have access to how the United States screens various containers for nuclear material and how this technology scrutinizes the containers -- all those things allow someone with a nefarious intention to thwart the screening."

Other experts discounted concerns. They cited Hutchison's reputation as a leading ports company and said the United States inevitably must rely for some security on large commercial operators in the global maritime industry.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-port-security-bahamas,1,3825659.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

Why do they print this crap!