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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49120)	9/20/2005 7:29:09 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

How a small donation of mere 2mUS $ went up to 100mUS$..In Dec Asia was hit with a disaster, my boss Mr. Nusif played a key role, what were intellectual discussions in a chalet about why Kuwait has been so miser post Tsunami not to announce a big donation? Resulted into an editorial next day in Al-Qabas and the Kuwait government acting on that editorial increased the donation to 100 m US$. More recently on a Sat night at 11.00 stopping the press asked the editors soon after Katrina to urge a huge donation for help to US as a kind of repayment of goodwill post 1990,, my boss of last 21 years piece appeared on Sunday in Al-Qabas asking Kuwait government to make a huge donation, on Sunday afternoon after a cabinet meeting a 500 m US $ donation was announced by the Kuwaitis, behind the scene things really help.. After the paper's editorial appeared, the Kuwaiti cabinet raised its announced donation on Sunday to $10 million, from $2 million, having previously doubled it. Kuwait is expected to run a budget surplus this year of roughly $10 billion, and Mr. Nusif noted that the government had just distributed an estimated $700 million to the Kuwaiti people themselves, the public share of the unanticipated revenue. He said Kuwait should give a minimum of $100 million, not least because many of the country's 1.29 million foreigners of a total population of 2.25 million come from the devastated regions. "They built Kuwait, and they raised our children," said Mr. Nusif, noting that before successive oil booms, India and other countries opened their doors to Kuwaitis, who were then relatively poor. The paper also advised Kuwaitis to check with their housemaids to see if they wanted to phone home in case family members were dead or missing. It was not the kind of reminder necessary for an older generation of Kuwaitis, Mr. Nusif said. "Our fathers were more generous than we are," he said. "They had suffered more." The editorial became the hot topic in diwaniyas, the nightly salons where men gather to chew over the issues of the day. "We should show more sympathy, especially since we have a budget surplus and these are our neighbors in Southeast Asia," said Saad al-Ajmi, a former Kuwaiti minister of information. He believes more private donations will be coming. The Qabas editorial did not cite Kuwait alone in seeking to fatten donations. It said all the Arab gulf countries benefiting from huge oil revenues should give more. natashatynes.org news.bbc.co.uk

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49120)	9/22/2005 5:56:07 AM
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