Al Qaeda has infiltrated the UAE government?

I find it pretty unbelievable that this document just now emerges this late in this whole ports kerfluffle, but here it is over at ThinkProgress (my choice to beat me out for the Koufax award for best new blog.)

Short version, there's a translated communication(PDF) from Al Qaeda to the UAE government claiming infiltration. It's posted at the "Combating Terrorism Center" at West Point (USMA-marines.) I don't know what to make of it exactly, how seriously to take this letter, but there it is.

Also from ThinkProgress tonight (yeah, but they have a budget and staff and advertising) this link a CNN story.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A review of a United Arab Emirates-owned company's plan to take over a portion of operations at key U.S. ports never looked into whether the company had ties to al Qaeda or other terrorists, a key Republican lawmaker told CNN on Wednesday.....

King said the officials told him after he asked about investigation into possible terrorist ties: "Congressman, you don't understand, we don't conduct a thorough investigation. We just ask the intel director if there is anything on file, and he said no."

Update: Leslie points out in the comments that Baker Botts, James Baker's law firm founded by his grandfather, big into all kinds of strange international and oil power deals, just opened a Dubai office.