Friday, June 24, 2005

Israelis Charge USAID Funds Terrorists

The New York Sun reports that an Israeli groups has charged the US Agency for International Development with funding terrorists. I believe these allegations are true, despite USAID's denials.
"Governmental and non-governmental organizations in the Palestinian Authority continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. Agency for International Development, some of which is going directly to frameworks that sponsor branches of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations," the report's executive summary says.

When I was living in Uzbekistan, USAID was funding some questionable people there, too . . . (link via Little Green Footballs)