State Dept. trashes UAE rights record

[brooklynite]

BY RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - The State Department's human rights report ripping the United Arab Emirates landed with near-perfect bad timing for the White House yesterday in the middle of the ports sale debate.

Opponents of the deal quickly seized on the report as yet another strike against the sale of terminals at six major U.S. ports to a firm owned by the government of Dubai, one of the seven emirates.

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The section on the UAE in the State Department's annual survey of human rights worldwide cited UAE abuses ranging from the flogging of prisoners to international trafficking in prostitutes and in young boys used as jockeys in camel races. The report also charged, "There are no democratically elected institutions or political parties. There are no general elections."

http://www.nydailynews.com/03-09-2006/news/wn_report/story/398065p-337325c.html

[anotherdrew]

1. it's 22 facilities involved not 6 see AP story from two days ago

was posted at DU

[goforit]

2. BANG!!!!....WH shows only self centered profiteering!

The WH has no loyalty to the United States of America!!

Bush and Cheney are ANTI-AMERICAN!!!!

[cantstandbush]

3. Maybe we should invade the UAE to bring freedom and democracy to them?

Afterall, if they become democracies they will be peaceful and won't attack their neighbors...like other democracies...like say, the US, the UK and Israel. :sarcasm:

[NVMojo]

5. yeah, they sound like a country Bush would altruistically invade!

:sarcasm:

[Copperred]

4. Bagram, Abu Graib, Secret Prisons in the EU, etc, etc etc.....

i mean really...do we have ANY ground to stand on....

when does the american people give up on the status quo?

there is only ONE party in america....and then there is you.