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2007-06-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Lobbyists helping Dubai company to seal $1.8 billion deal - The Carlyle Group involved

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Posted by 3dc 2007-06-27 01:55|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The UAE has adopted a see no evil policy towards those jihadis who direct their terror elsewhere. In any case, their oil fields are projected to run dry in 2015. Post insolvency scenarios don't present the UAE as a country to which we should want to transfer high technology.

Posted by McZoid 2007-06-27 05:03|| 2007-06-27 05:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I wasn't wearing my glasses when I read the headline and thought it said:
"Lobbyists helping Dubai company to steal $1.8 billion deal - The Carlyle Group involved."
I suppose it could be right either way.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-27 08:52|| 2007-06-27 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Lipstick on a pig....

However once these lobbyists and PR functionaries throw some money into lawmaker's PACs, those that had previously disparaged the Dubai Ports deal will come around on this one.

Posted by danking_70 2007-06-27 11:14|| 2007-06-27 11:14|| Front Page Top

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