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Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
« on: Sep 4^th, 2005, 1:03pm »

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Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
Sunday, September 04, 2005

KUWAIT CITY (AP) The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said Sunday it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.

The offer is the largest known put forward since the hurricane ravaged Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and follows a $100 million aid donation from the emir of a Mideast neighbor, Qatar.

Kuwait's energy minister said his country would provide "oil products that the disaster-stricken states need in addition to other humanitarian aid."

"It's our duty as Kuwaitis to stand by our friends to lighten the humanitarian misery and as a payback for the many situations during which Washington helped us through the significant relations between the two friendly countries," Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah said in a statement carried by Kuwait's official news agency, KUNA.

Kuwait is one of America's closest Mideast allies and owes its 1991 liberation from Iraqi occupation forces to a U.S.-led coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's army out.

Kuwait and Qatar's donations came as the Egypt-based 22-member Arab League called on Arab nations to provide relief to the U.S.

The Arab League said that its secretary-general, Amr Moussa, sent a cable of "deep condolences and regret to the U.S. administration over the effect of Hurricane Katrina ... and called on all Arab countries to extend aid to the United States to face the exceptional humane circumstances."

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Re: Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
« Reply #1 on: Sep 4^th, 2005, 1:03pm »

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Wow...good for them! Cool

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Re: Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
« Reply #2 on: Sep 4^th, 2005, 2:00pm »

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It's nice to see some of that gas money come back home.

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Re: Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
« Reply #3 on: Sep 4^th, 2005, 2:17pm »

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Yay!

I was beginning to dispair of hearing anything from overseas except wonderment over our ineptness, and snide remarks. Then I heard Europe was sending petroleum products to the east coast to ease the shortage. Finally, something besides unwanted advice and comments.

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Re: Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
« Reply #4 on: Sep 4^th, 2005, 3:41pm »

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I heard Bush say the foreign aid hadn't come yet, because
he hadn't asked for it. Guess he asked! Good for him!

This is awesome Cool

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Re: Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
« Reply #5 on: Sep 4^th, 2005, 4:27pm »

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Any one who doesn't know Kuwait is an oil rich country - needs a geography lesson and a map!

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Re: Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
« Reply #6 on: Sep 4^th, 2005, 4:52pm »

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How can it be bad, when the USA sent troops to keep Afghanistan from taking over their country a few years back!
They were in deep peril without the USA.

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Re: Kuwait to Give $500M for Katrina Relief
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Iraq had invaded Kuwait and when our troops arrived to push them back, they set fire to the oil wells. Then our well fire fighters worked for weeks, maybe months to put the fires out. So yes, I'm glad they're repaying us.
This is by way of a very short history lesson for you young'uns that weren't born yet.

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« Reply #8 on: Sep 4^th, 2005, 8:33pm »

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Thanks for bailing me out, Pocket.
I remembered, yet I didn't!
The Afghanistan were killing innocent people
and raping their women. Very bad time for Kuwait.

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