The American Report by Mary Fanning and Alan Jones
For a guy whose company loads and unloads intermodal shipping containers at seaports in places like Iraq and Saudi Arabia, GULFTAINER Executive Board Chairman Badr Jafar of the Iraqi Jafar family certainly has an interesting circle of family members and associates, including Barack Obama’s Pakistani college friend Wahid Hamid, Vladimir Putin, Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates. Badr Jafar also visited the Obama Whitehouse in 2014, according to official White House visitor logs. Later that same year, the Obama Administration, in a secretly-negotiated deal code-named PROJECT PELICAN, awarded GULFTAINER with approval of a 35-year intermodal cargo container terminal lease at Florida’s Port Canaveral, adjacent to U.S. Navy Trident submarines and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
