RE: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

From: matus (matus@snet.net)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 16:28:28 MDT

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    Damien Sullivan
    >
    > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 02:15:10PM -0400, matus wrote:
    >
    > > Egypt is the single biggest recipient of Foriegn aide from the
    > US, some 12
    > > billion per year, yet it is also a totalitarian. It was one of
    > the first
    >
    > Where'd you get *that*? $12 billion is close to the USA's total
    > foreign aid
    > budget, and Israel is always described as the largest recipient.
    > With Egypt
    > second: $3 billion for Israel to $2 billion for Egypt. Some web searching
    > seems to confirm all this.
    >

    You are correct, it appears I was off by a factor of ten, with Egypt getting
    around 1.2 billion, which about ties it with Isreal. My apologies, still
    waiting for my nueral upgrades, momentary lapses of reason should be reduced
    then.

    Michael Dickey

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