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USAID is just another corrupt bureaucracy who appoints their token underlings whether competent or not.

This from a recent article:
US Rewarding Arab Terrorism

“McConnell should have included USAID on his terror-funding list. A Dec. 2007 USAID audit reported that the mission administering its funds gave money to groups and institutions affiliated with US designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad. It warned: “Without additional controls, the mission could inadvertently provide support to entities or individuals associated with terrorism.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990554/posts

USAID needs cleaned out, starting with this Bush appointee:

Samah Norquist is currently the Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public affairs at USAID. ...
www.zoominfo.com/people/Norquist_Samah_852327567.aspx

Prior to working at USAID, Norquist was the director of communications at the Islamic Free Market Institute (IFMI) in Washington, DC. ...
www.naaponline.org/conference05/speakers.cfm

Samah Norquist is the wife of Grover Norquist. Remember a few of Norquist Muslim friends and associates have been indicted.

Here’s one...also tied into USAID.

“accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying — money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954774/posts
see posts 14 & 20

Speaking of USAID & terror charities:

Then, there are LRD’s activities in Iraq. In 2002, it led the pro-Saddam Hussein propaganda trip by Reps. David Bonior, Jim McDermott and Mike Thompson. (The trip was also funded in part by Shakir Alkhafaji, a Detroiter who did $70 million in business with Hussein and was named in Iraqi newspapers as being one of two Americans involved in the Oil-for-Food scandal.)
In June 2004, U.S. troops raided LRD’s offices in Iraq. That was a month after an LRD fund-raiser in Southern California, at which speakers said LRD sponsored operations in Fallujah and orphans in Afghanistan. My federal law-enforcement sources believe that LRD may have been funding terrorist insurgents in both places. (The event’s keynoter was Wagdi Mohammed Ghoneim, an Islamic cleric who has since been deported because of his meetings with two of the 9/11 hijackers.)
Often running LRD’s Iraq office was Mohammed Alomari, the group’s spokesman. He’s the author of a book that argues that the United States is a creation of Kabbalistic Jews, and that the Oval Office is a “female reproductive force.” His Daru Salam mosque radio Web site claimed Jews and the United States “organized” the 9/11 attacks.
Ironically, LRD was among the first groups to win U.S. Agency for International Development approval to receive and dole out U.S. tax dollars to the Iraqi people. A press release thanked Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) for getting the USAID seal of approval. My sources fear that some of that USAID money - which cannot all be traced - may have gone to fund insurgents.

......it’s a small world after all......