U.S. Gives $18.5M for Mideast Projects

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is giving civic and economic projects in Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, and on the West Bank $18.5 million in contributions, the State Department announced Friday.

Also, the U.S. will give nearly $700,000 seven universities in Jordan for teaching English.

The contributions will come out of $220 million appropriated by Congress since 2001 under a Middle East Partnership Initiative.
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"These are exciting projects that underscore our continuing commitment to supporting the peoples in the region's desire for progress ad change," the State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.

Congress passes on the amount of money and then the department decides where it is spent, Ereli said.

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[GHOSTDANCER]

1. World Wide Welfare, Keep the people happy or bad things happen.

And 18 million? Shit what is that like 1 second of the work week in US tax dollars? Geeze don't spend all that in one place fellas.

Crap here I go again............. And what about Mid and Southern Africa you fuqin assholes!!!! The entire continent is being eatin from out from underneith them by Locusts as we speak and half the population has HIV and warlods are displacing millions of people!!!!!

[Chicago Democrat]

2. a pittance

Bush sucks