21 Ports IN the United States according to this report:
http://upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/vie...3-051657-4981r
Might wanna "get back into the loop" and read the fucking thread, or at least keep up with the story before commenting on "nuanced arguments".
Abdul Qadeer Khan used UAE ports as the transfer point of nuclear components to Iran, Libya, and N. Korea
Page 137-139 of the 9/11 Commission Report blames a UAE tip off for protecting Bin Laden from a US assassination plan. Al-qaeda made claims of infiltrating UAE government in 2002.
UAE support Hamas:
Welcoming Terror to U.S. Ports
By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 24, 2006
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...e.asp?ID=21413
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On July 27, 2005, the Palestinian Information Center carried a public HAMAS statement thanking the UAE for it’s “unstinting support.” The statement said: “We highly appreciate his highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (UAE president) in particular and the UAE people and government in general for their limitless support"
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The HAMAS statement included a special tribute: "One can never forget the generous donations of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan,” the father of the current UAE president. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahayan of Abu Dhabi, was the first Arab leader to understand the importance of waging economic Jihad against the West, and was the first to use oil as a political weapon following the Yom Kippur War in 1973. On the eve of the 1991 Gulf War he branded the United States “our number two enemy” after Israel.
The multi-billionaire Sheikh Zayed, was an early patron of the PLO, and from the 1970’s until his death in 2004, contributed millions of dollars to the terror agenda of the PLO, HAMAS and Islamic Jihad.
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For example, according to the Orient Research Center in Toronto, Canada, the UAE “compensation” plan for the Palestinian intifada in 2001 included $3,000 for every Palestinian shaheed, $2,000 for his family, $1,500 for those detained by Israel, $1,200 for each orphan. In addition, families of those terrorists whose homes Israel demolished each received $10,000.
Also in 2001, in support of the martyr’s families in the Palestinian intifada, two telethons were organized in the UAE.
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According to a 2004 poll conducted by Zogby International:
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73% of UAE citizens had a negative view of the United States; only 14% had a favorable view.
· Only 5% of UAE citizens felt that “democracy” was an “extremely important” reason for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction was cited by 16%. “Oil” and “domination of the Muslim world” were the main reasons offered by UAE citizens for our invasion of Iraq.
· 81% of UAE citizens felt Iraq was worse off after the war. Only 4% said it was better off without Saddam.
· Asked to identify their “most admired” world leaders, 18% of UAE citizens chose Osama bin Laden. “No one” finished first with 22%.
· When asked how they viewed themselves, only 19% said they identified first and foremost as citizens of the United Arab Emirates, while 66% said they saw themselves as “Muslims” first.
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