Kuwait.
Posted on 09/04/2005 9:00:37 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Kuwait Pledges $500M for Hurricane Relief Updated: Sunday, Sep. 4, 2005 - 11:26 AM
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."
After your post, I suspect I know who the ingrate truly is.
Looks like we've got some friends in the Middle East after all. Of course you could say this $500 million is a rebate from Iraq 1.
Thank you, Kuwait!
I would never kiss the arabs' asses, as you do.
Thanks Kuwait and Qatar!!!
Wow! Thank you, Kuwait!
interesting the first serious donations come from the Middle East and not all our allies in Europe
Allright!
Our real friends in the world are speaking loudly. I for one appreciate the wonderful donation from both Kuwait and Qutar. It is in fact amazing.
The real ass has spoken, and it has spouted pure BS.
The French foreign ministry offered eight aircraft and two ships, with 600 tents and 1,000 camp beds...
600 tents and 1,000 cots. LOL!
Kuwait.
That $17M is just a running total. They are continuing to donate money, trucks, personnel, anything they can.
Unlike some other companies, they aren't blowing their own horn about it and holding pressers to trumpet it. They're simply quietly and quickly doing what needs to be done.
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Wrong.
Kuwaits GDP is 48 billion. They gave 0.5 billion. That's 1% not .000000001%.
You should change your screen name from "investigateworld" to "justsayanything".
Uhhh I was referring to W-M $287 Billion revenue.
Kuwait has done right proud by themselves.
Wow, thank, Kuwait. They don't have to do this, so it's nice to see them stepping up to it.
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