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Author: Kaplan, Eben Background Q&A: The UAE Purchase of American Port Facilities 
 Questions and answers about issues surrounding a purchase that would give a company from Dubai (in the United Arab Emirates) "control over facilities in six U.S. ports: New York, Miami, Newark-Port Elizabeth, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Baltimore." Discusses security concerns (weapons of mass destruction and vulnerability of liquefied natural gas), the company (DP World), significance of operation of U.S. ports by foreign companies, and related topics. From the Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/publication/9918/uae_purchase_of_american_port_facilities.html Topics: Industries, National Security, Transportation Last updated Mar 1, 2006 How Libya Got Off the List
This October 2007 backgrounder describes how on "on May 15, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that the United States was removing Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism and would soon resume normal diplomatic relations with the one-time pariah." Topics discussed include why Libya was designated a state sponsor of terror, what concessions Libya made to warrant removal, and U.S. concerns. From the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). http://www.cfr.org/publication/10855/ Topics: Terrorism Last updated Sep 8, 2008 |
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