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| USAID halts aid to Gaza: US official |
| 2011-08-13 |
| [Dawn] USAID is halting humanitarian assistance to the Gazoo Strip over alleged meddling by the radical Paleostinian group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, a US official said on Friday. "We deeply regret that USAID-funded partner organizations operating in Gazoo are forced by Hamas's actions to suspend their assistance work," the official said on condition of anonymity. "USAID assistance programs were put on hold effective August 12," he added. "Hamas, through a series of measures it has imposed over the past months, has created an environment which jeopardises the ability of non-governmental organizations to provide assistance to Gazoo's most vulnerable residents," the official said. He said all US partner organizations would suspend their activities funded by the United States until these are able "to operate without interference or harassment from Hamas." Another official in Washington said he understood that Hamas has been demanding access to physically search files and records of NGOs, which would be unprecedented. Hamas, which controls the Gazoo Strip, insisted on Friday that it should be able to verify the accounts of NGOs financed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Paleostinian territories. "The minister of interior of the government of Hamas intends to exercise its legal rights in the surveillance of all institutions operating in Gazoo," front man Taher al-Nunu said. He complained that "USAID refuses to recognise the government in Gazoo," adding that anyone who "wishes to work in Paleostinian territory must obey its laws." A similar row was underway in Cairo where a notorious Egyptian intelligence apparatus is probing foreign funding of civil society groups sparking tensions between Washington and Egypt's ruling generals, judicial sources said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Only a three month hudna this time? Things are speeding up in Gazoo. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2011-08-13 13:50 |
| #8 Thugs, rapists, turds, liars. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-08-13 12:34 |
| #7 Oh, good. All is forgiven... GAZA CITY (AFP) -- Hamas and the US Agency for International Development have reached a compromise to maintain the flow of aid, a senior Hamas official said Saturday. "We've reached a compromise with USAID through the United Nations" to allow the continuation of aid, which was suspended by Washington on Friday, the official of the Islamist movement controlling the Palestinian enclave told AFP. Hamas, as a result of the agreement, renounces for a "three-month period" its demand to verify the accounts of NGOs financed by the US Agency for International Development in the Palestinian territories, he said. Welcome back, Uncle Sugar... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-08-13 12:31 |
| #6 Awwwwwww no, man. Now maybe they...won't like us. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-08-13 12:11 |
| #5 Just click on the link that I've provided, John. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-08-13 10:19 |
| #4 About time--if true. Aid finds a way of getting in. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-08-13 10:16 |
| #3 No way Jose. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-08-13 07:51 |
| #2 "Thieves and dirtbags"....I think that just about covers it. Let's give a country to these people and encourage Moslem Values. Oh, you might say the Moslems are peaceloving and their pious and noble Religion has been highjacked by "radical militants"? Pull my finger. Islam is not your friend. And having a middle name like Hussein is just another way to say you were a sucker if you are thinking people named that can be your friend. Barack is Arabic for "Stick 'em up." The word Obama, however, is an African term for "polish my curly toed slippers with the oil on your nose." Let's all be tolerant and multi-cultural. Joan Baez does a tre- fabulous version of "Kumbaya". Gently swaying and looking up at the Messiah. While the vision of the Greek Columns are flowing like pale near beer across the vistas of your Liberal grandmother's paisley shawl. |
| Posted by: de Medici 2011-08-13 07:40 |
| #1 "auditing" foreign-funded NGO's? Thieves and dirtbags. Paleo-Scum |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-08-13 00:54 |