Gulf States Pledge $90 Million in Immediate Aid to Lebanon

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When Syria offered the U.S. tried to make it look like they were arming Lebanon against Israel. I wonder how this will be recieved . . .


Gulf Nations Pledge Financial Aid To Help Stricken Lebanese

DUBAI (AP)--Governments of three Gulf states have pledged a total of $90 million in immediate aid to Lebanon to help it deal with the humanitarian consequences of Israel's airstrikes.

The president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, pledged $20 million for medicine and relief "to help alleviate the sufferings of the Lebanese people who have been under Israeli attack for days," the official Emirates news agency WAM quoted Sheik Khalifa as saying.

The Abu Dhabi Red Crescent has begun transferring aid to the Lebanese Red Cross for the purchase of medicine, blankets and temporary shelter materials, said Red Crescent spokesman Abdul Rahman al-Tenaiji in Abu Dhabi..

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah pledged $50 million and Kuwait added another $20 million for Lebanon.

Kuwait's Red Crescent Society said Monday it was starting a collection campaign for Lebanon.

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/151491597?

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1. Whoa, the thread title freaked me there for a second ...

Gulf STATES ... I took to mean FLA, ALA, GA, LA ... all the states that should be using whatever funds they can get their hands on to rebuild NOLA.

I was gonna get pissed off there for a second. Nevermind. :hide:

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2. Chances are it will be real money

and not conditional on Haliburton, Bechtel etc getting the rebuild contracts.