{"id":74,"date":"2006-02-24T21:47:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T04:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2006-02-24T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T04:47:47","slug":"the-ports-and-arab-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"The ports and Arab hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the port deal has come to light I keep hearing stories about how the 9\/11 hijackers had ties to the UAE.\u00c2\u00a0 Two of them came from there.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the money went through UAE banks.\u00c2\u00a0 The UAE recognized the Taliban in Afghanistan.\u00c2\u00a0 The UAE doesn&#8217;t like Israel.<\/p>\n<p>All true as far as I can tell.\u00c2\u00a0 But, quite a few of the hijackers also came from Saudi Arabia.\u00c2\u00a0 The banks the money went through were owned by British companies.\u00c2\u00a0 The UAE government helped us throw the Taliban out of Afghanistan after 9\/11.\u00c2\u00a0 As far as the Israel thing, I doubt you&#8217;ll find any arab country changing their tune any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest we all take a deep breath and let the story come out.\u00c2\u00a0 The Bush administration dropped the ball by not coming forward sooner but we should at least hear more.<\/p>\n<p>After all, who taught the hijackers to fly planes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the port deal has come to light I keep hearing stories about how the 9\/11 hijackers had ties to the UAE.\u00c2\u00a0 Two of them came from there.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the money went through UAE banks.\u00c2\u00a0 The UAE recognized the Taliban in Afghanistan.\u00c2\u00a0 The UAE doesn&#8217;t like Israel. All true as far as I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}