The American Report By Mary Fanning and Alan Jones | April 11, 2020
Gulftainer, the Iraqi Jafar family’s container and seaports management company linked to Iraq’s WMD programs and to the Moscow exporter of Russia’s Club-K, a Trojan Horse container missile launching system, this week threatened U.S. fuel supply lines across five states amid the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic.
Gulftainer blockaded hundreds of Wawa fuel tanker trucks attempting to transit through Delaware’s Port of Wilmington to pick up petroleum products bound for hundreds of American-owned Wawa convenience stores and gas stations across the Northeast.
Gulftainer, based in the United Arab Emirates, manages the Port of Wilmington under a 50-year lease that was never subjected to a National Security Threat Analysis or full CFIUS review.
Obama administration holdovers approved Gulftainers Port of Wilmington lease after the Obama administration approved Gulftainer’s first U.S. port deal at Florida’s Port Canaveral, also without a National Security Threat Analysis or full CFIUS review.
Gulftainer co-owner Hamid Dhia Jafar is the brother of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons mastermind Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar and is in a joint venture with ROSTEC, the Russian weapons enterprise that exports the Club-K Container Missile System through its ROSOBORONEXPORT subsidiary, derogatory facts that should have precluded Gulftainer from receiving any lease to any U.S. port.
Delaware Chancery Court Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laste granted a temporary restraining order preventing Gulftainer subsidiary GT USA Wilmington from blocking fuel terminal operator Buckeye Partners LP and hundreds of Wawa tanker trucks from accessing a petroleum tank farm that supplies Wawa locations, considered “critical infrastructure” businesses during the pandemic.
Wawa, Pennsylvania-based Wawa operates over 800 convenience stores selling fuel and deli sandwiches.
Gulftainer not only blockaded U.S. fuel supply lines during a National Emergency, they are attempting to extort $1 million from Buckeye Partners LP, the Houston-based operator of the petroleum tank farm located adjacent to the Port of Wilmington that stores fuel bound for Wawa locations across the Northeast. Specifically, Wawa delivers fuel from the Buckeye tank farm adjacent to the Gulftainer’s Port of Wilmington operations to Wawa locations throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.
According to Buckeye’s complaint:
I see these containers all along the cities that are close to the shores in ports like Oakland and down south. Some of these containers are piled at least 8 high inside the city limits of Oakland itself. Right next to apartment complexes.
Mike Adams is warning of a Chinese invasion onto our West Coast. Now this.