Fidel Castro offers assistance

[Howie]

I never thought I would see this one...I haven't confirmed validity, so take it for what it's worth:

I heard on the radio news this morning that Fidel Castro asked to bury
the political hatchet and has offered to send 1,100 doctors and 26,000
tons of medical supplies from Cuba to New Orleans and the evacuation
centers. Sixty countries have now offered help by sending money or
equipment and materials. Japan is sending electric generators, and Italy
is sending army field hospitals, and the list goes on.
FEMA and the States are asking that medical personel volunteer to go to
the refugee centers to staff field hospitals and clinics set up at the
evacuation centers. It would be interesting to find out if ATLA has
members who are MD's and dentists, and nurses and medical people who will
be going to the refugee centers to work in the military field hospitals
and center clinics. ATLA could form a medical network of disaster
workers who give us reports from the front lines over lap tops. Someone
might contact the ATLA offices and ask them if there is such a medical
network of members lawyers or paralegals who will be going to help the
relief effort.

 

[kosar]

Yes, Fox and MSNBC have been reporting that. Iran, China and Venezuela also on the list of 50 countries offering one form of aid or another.

 

[SixFive]

Yes, Fox and MSNBC have been reporting that. Iran, China and Venezuela also on the list of 50 countries offering one form of aid or another.

France on that list?

 

[kosar]

Not sure.

 

[bjfinste]

Yes, France is on that list.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Looks like some in middle east showing their appreciation--

The $500 million offer by Kuwait ? which owes its 1991 liberation from seven months of occupation by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army to a U.S.-led coalition ? is the largest to date, surpassing the $100 million pledged by Qatar, another U.S. ally in the Mideast.

"It's our duty as Kuwaitis to stand by our friends to lighten the humanitarian misery and as a pay back for the many situations during which Washington helped us through," Kuwait's energy minister, Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah, said in a statement.

Kuwait's offer includes $400 million in oil products and $100 million in humanitarian relief, Al Sabah's spokesman told The Associated Press.

Another close U.S. ally, the United Arab Emirates, is sending tents, clothing, food and other aid.

The United States enjoys close relations with most Gulf states, particularly Kuwait, which was a launch pad for the 2003 invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam, and Qatar, a base for the U.S. military in the war's initial stages