Iran, Afghanistan Offer Help To Katrina Victims

[Lindsay]

From Radio Free Europe:

4 September 2005 -- Dozens of countries around the world have made pledges of aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the United States, including Iran and Afghanistan.


Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi today said Tehran is ready to help the victims through the Red Crescent.

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In Kabul, the Afghan cash-strapped government pledged to give $100,000 to help victims of the hurricane.

U.S. Ambassador in Kabul Ronald Neumann told a ceremony at which the aid was pledged that Afghanistan's generosity bears testimony of the ties between the Afghan and American peoples.

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Not much more here. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/09/f54f2924-3261-4677-b1af-a1e84226f29b.html

Oh, my heart...Afghanistan.

[gennifer6]

1. I hope we're smart enough to take it.

We have to start acknowledging other countries and accepting their help with some humility.

[coeur_de_lion]

4. Now is the time to mend fences. Is * smart enough? I think not.

That arrogant SOB can't even admit how badly Michael Brown has screwed up in NO.

Humility -- never the strong point of any * administration official, least of all * himself.

[lumpy]

2. Afghanistan pledged $100 mill.

A country war-ravaged for years by Russia and US assault opening up their meager coffers. Amazing.

[DawnneOBTS]

3. It goes to show what the REAL Third-world country is...

...we're living in it.