[news] U.S. Spent $1.9 Million to Aid Fatah in Palestinian Elections

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By STEVEN ERLANGER | January 23, 2006 | NYTimes

JERUSALEM, Jan. 22 - The United States spent about $1.9 million of its yearly $400 million in aid to the Palestinians on dozens of quick projects before elections this week to bolster the governing Fatah faction's image with voters and strengthen its hand in competing with the militant faction Hamas, American and Palestinian officials said Sunday. 

"Working with democracies and democratic parties is normal for the U.S. government all around the world," Ms. Schweiter-Bluhm said. [Read: Meddling in the internal affairs of other countries to influence elections, bringing to power governments which will parrot American economic and military policy, is normal for the U.S. government all around the world]

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