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	<title><![CDATA[Oman Free Trade Agreement: Another Ports Scandal - With No Out]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/oman-free-trade-agreement_b_25410.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The nation was in an <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1661028&amp;page=1">uproar</a> earlier this year over the revelation that Dubai Ports World had been given the go-ahead to take over the operations of several U.S. ports. From Main Street to Capitol Hill, Americans made it clear that they did not want to hand over control of critical infrastructure to foreign interests.</p>

<p>But now, less than six months later, a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060718/pl_nm/trade_oman_usa_dc_1">new version of the deal</a> is back, disguised deep inside the Oman Free Trade Agreement (OFTA),...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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