Aid to NO question

[Jeffro]

From another message board:

Supplies of aid from Ottawa and Germany (a county in the Fascist European Union) were not allowed to cross into US as aid to N.O.

Thanks for any replies

[LionelHutz405]

I’ll assume your question is if this is a true statement or not.

Aid from Canada is being unloaded right now, so I can say the first part isn’t true.

[Mops]

re the German aid part - that’s based in fact

from Spiegel Online, 12 September 2005

Last week, a German military cargo jet carrying 15 tons of food labored into the air bound for the United States. The goal, of course, was to feed needy victims of Hurricane Katrina. But the food supplies never made it. Refused permission to land, the plane was forced to turn around and head back to Cologne, still fully loaded. Food from other countries has likewise been banned.
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Other countries’aid offers also into difficulties According to European press reports of last week e.g. Basler Zeitung - sorry, could find no English-language quote - a Swedish jet laden with water purification equipment and a donated mobile phone system sat on a Swedish airport for (at the time of writing) six days.

[Mops]

oh, also from Basler Zeitung (also in German) - the US government first accepted then politely turned down Switzerland’s offer of aid. The 50 tons of material that had been assembled seems to have been emergency-tent-camp-type equipment.