NEWARK – Gov. John Corzine has sued the Bush administration to stop it from selling control of operations of the Port of Newark to Dubai Ports World and Thunder FZE, wholly owned subsidiaries of Ports Containers and Free Zone Corp., owned by the Arab Emirate of Dubai.

Corzine claims the sale will put New Jersey at risk of terrorism. New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the nation and its three counties nearest the port, Essex, Union and Hudson, its most densely populated counties. Corzine claims most of the money for the Sept. 11 terror attacks “flowed through the United Arab Emirates”; that the “Monograph on Terrorist Financing” found the UAE was “ambivalent and selectively cooperative” in helping the USA stop the flow of money to al Qaeda operatives; and that a Dubai company helped Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan sell nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Corzine wants the defendant Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States to give him all the documents it considered before approving the sale.