EU cites snags in getting Katrina aid to victims

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Transport and other logistics problems are holding up some of the mass of humanitarian aid European countries have offered to the victims of hurricane Katrina, an EU official said on Tuesday.

"There appear to be some transportation problems," Barbara Helfferich, a spokeswoman for the European Union's executive Commission, told a news briefing.

She said a Swedish plane laden with aid was waiting to take off but had not got U.S. approval to enter the United States.

High-speed pumps offered by Germany had arrived but Helfferich said unspecified "coordination problems" in the United States had prevented them from being deployed so far.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050906/ts_nm/aid_eu_dc

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1. Bush prefers to let people die

"The Commission said at the time that the request to it came after several days of discussions and insisted that the EU, which calls itself the world's biggest aid donor, could have acted sooner if asked."

[Dez]

2. Customs has to do a thourough search

for DRUGS first!

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3. Unspecified "coordination problems"

Gee, and here I thought that piling everything under DHS was supposed to IMPROVE coordination! Silly me. :silly: