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To: Elsewhere who wrote (135899)	9/2/2005 7:03:40 AM
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Germany says ready to help U.S. with Katrina Thu Sep 1, 2005 8:31 AM ET news.yahoo.com German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Thursday Germany was ready to help the United States with the havoc caused by Hurricane Katrina, offering water treatment facilities and mobile shelters. "The terrible pictures are gradually showing us the extent of the devastation caused by the hurricane," Schroeder said at a book presentation in Berlin. He said he had directed government ministries to investigate what help Germany could offer to the United States if requested. "The citizens of the United States should know that in such a situation, Germany is firmly at their side and will do everything it can to organize whatever help we can provide as far as it is desired," he said. "I'm thinking here of water treatment plants or mobile accommodation, the kinds of things that are needed in such a devastating situation." German television has carried extensive coverage of the disaster on the U.S. Gulf Coast, with news channels carrying round the clock pictures of people wading through flooded streets or waiting to be rescued from rooftops. Schroeder's opposition to the U.S-led war in Iraq caused a deep rift in relations between Berlin and Washington but both sides now say any differences have been patched up. "Of course we know that the United States of America has enormous resources of its own, but we want at least to be ready to be able to provide help in this or that area where we can - and we can do a lot," he added. Schroeder, facing an uphill battle to win an election on September 18, faced a major flood disaster in the run-up to the last election in 2002, when his assured response to the crisis helped snatch an unexpected victory.

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