Re: OT: Disaster Relief


"Nann Bell" <hanbellGOGATORS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 8:54:37 -0400, Uv wrote
> (in message <huCdnck9NrLlc4feRVn-jg@xxxxxxxxxxx>):
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>> http://www.colombopage.com/archive/September2114328JV.html
>
> now that story is very interesting indeed. For a country as small and
> poor
> and recently devestated itself as Sri Lanka to give US $25,000 towards
> disaster relief is truly a demonstration of the global community caring.
>
> --

Countries Offer U.S. Hurricane Relief

Sunday September 4, 2005 10:31 PM


AP Photo MSDP116

By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Donations to Hurricane Katrina relief poured in from
around the world Sunday, with Kuwait offering $500 million and other Mideast
countries offering aid and condolences despite widespread opposition to U.S.
policies in the area.

But the al-Qaida in Iraq group, led by the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
called the devastation across the U.S. Gulf Coast region God's retribution
on America.

The European Union and NATO also stepped up to provide aid following rare
requests for help from Washington, while the 22-member Arab League urged
countries across the Middle East to ``extend aid to the United States to
face the exceptional humane circumstances.''

Spain, Belgium, Britain, Germany and Italy announced they had started or
were about to send aid and experts to the U.S. to help with the logistical
operation of getting help to hurricane survivors.

Britain's Ministry of Defense said Sunday the government would send 500,000
ration packs.

Germany and Italy sent flights of supplies, including food rations, bed
supplies, inflatable dinghies and water purifiers.

The $500 million offer by Kuwait - which owes its 1991 liberation from seven
months of occupation by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army to a U.S.-led
coalition - is the largest to date, surpassing the $100 million pledged by
Qatar, another U.S. ally in the Mideast.

``It's our duty as Kuwaitis to stand by our friends to lighten the
humanitarian misery and as a pay back for the many situations during which
Washington helped us through,'' Kuwait's energy minister, Sheik Ahmed Fahd
Al Ahmed Al Sabah, said in a statement.

Kuwait's offer includes $400 million in oil products and $100 million in
humanitarian relief, Al Sabah's spokesman told The Associated Press.

Another close U.S. ally, the United Arab Emirates, is sending tents,
clothing, food and other aid.

The United States enjoys close relations with most Gulf states, particularly
Kuwait, which was a launch pad for the 2003 invasion of Iraq that toppled
Saddam, and Qatar, a base for the U.S. military in the war's initial stages.

But al-Zarqawi's group released an Internet statement saying ``God's great
wrath has hit the head of the oppressors where their dead are in thousands
and their losses in billions.''

Bitter U.S. foes Iran and North Korea - which Washington pressured over
their respective nuclear programs - offered to help rescue efforts, and
Syria - another longtime opponent - was among numerous Middle Eastern states
offering condolences.

And Arab League chief Amr Moussa said the Arab world should support the
United States, which ``always expresses solidarity with nations that face
natural catastrophes and extends most of the aid they receive.''

The Paris-based International Energy Agency has also said its 26-member
nations would release the equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil per day
from strategic reserves.



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