Posted on 12/11/2007 9:17:49 PM PST by SeafoodGumbo
WASHINGTON — U.S. government officials authorized giving nearly $1 million in foreign aid to a Palestinian university with links to the terrorist group Hamas, despite vetting the school eight times for ties to terrorism, according to a government audit.
The audit concluded that the vetting process, initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development and conducted by the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, found no "derogatory information" on the Islamic University in Gaza between 2002 and 2006—even after Hamas claimed a parliamentary majority in Palestinian elections in 2006. Several times, university officials certified that they provided no material support for terrorism.
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The Tribune must be a reasonable paper, because this had all the elements that would make it less than likely to see the light of day.
A Republican found wrong doing. It was located in a Palestinian University. That university received funding from the U.S.
1. Republicans can do no right and get it reported
2. Palestinians can do no wrong and get it reported
3. Liberals want the U.S. to provide funding to terrorist organizations if they can work it...
Let’s hope we hear more of this Rep. Good job.
we keep supporting palestine even though they are terrorist supporters and the government is a known terror organization.
but yet we support them because its the politically correct thing to do.
we need to stand up as a country. stop giving in to the rest of the world.
As usual, Americans fund our enemies.
Bush did it. It’s all Bush’s fault.
I remember something -- seems like so long ago -- about a Bush Doctrine. I guess it should have been called the Bush Three Year Doctrine.
The tip of the iceberg.
Hello, hello - there is no such thing as a Palestinian university that is not a terrorist tool. All of them.
It’s high time for the U.S. State Department to start to care that it has, with its eyes wide open, been a financial supporter of terrorists for the past 60 years.
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