al Kirby: Just Give Us the Money
I’ve been shocked by the US willingness to work with such a lying, stealing, cheating, two-timing, double dealing crook like Saleh, after he already screwed the US during the USS Cole investigation. And then it hit me. Old habits die hard.
At the link is a video from BBC of Dr. al Qirby proclaiming Yemen will accept any and all conditions on donor aid.
The Yemeni Foreign minister, Dr Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, denies that Yemen has been failing to tackle al-Qaeda but he says the international community needs to provide more aid to the country to help them defeat terrorism.
Yemen is asking for aid to also reduce poverty in a country that is one of the poorest in the Middle East.
Denying the money would disappear into corrupt hands, he said the government will accept conditions on how and where the aid is spent.
A good overview of the complexities in a write up at Chatham House.
