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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 02:49 AM Nov 2019

Sources: US Withholding $105 Million in Security Aid for Lebanon

Source: Reuters


Friday, 1 November, 2019 - 05:30

US President Donald Trump's administration is withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon, two US officials said on Thursday, two days after the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

The State Department told Congress on Thursday that the White House budget office and National Security Council had decided to withhold the foreign military assistance, the two officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The officials did not say why the aid was blocked. One of the sources said the State Department did not give Congress a reason for the decision.

. . .

One US official told Reuters he believed the security assistance was necessary for Lebanon, as it struggles with instability not just within its own government but in a turbulent region and houses thousands of refugees from war in neighboring Syria.


Read more: https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1970471/lebanon%E2%80%99s-president-seeks-appease-protesters-pledging-cabinet-technocrats

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Sources: US Withholding $105 Million in Security Aid for Lebanon (Original Post) Judi Lynn Nov 2019 OP
WTH? What is he trying to extort from them? How dewsgirl Nov 2019 #1
My first thought also DeminPennswoods Nov 2019 #4
Yes PatSeg Nov 2019 #5
Friday's episode of "Let's Make A Deal" . . . . . no_hypocrisy Nov 2019 #2
Might be legit. Much turmoil in Lebanon now. tRump prob doesn't even know how to pronounce it. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2019 #3

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. WTH? What is he trying to extort from them? How
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 03:07 AM
Nov 2019

many countries is he doing this to?
Edited to add I don't enough about the geopolitical politics of the area. And Putin is pulling all the strings.

PatSeg

(46,806 posts)
5. Yes
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 08:44 AM
Nov 2019

Perhaps Putin told him to do it or maybe even Netanyahu. Trump seems to be beholden to so many tyrants around the world and they all appear to be pulling his strings.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,790 posts)
3. Might be legit. Much turmoil in Lebanon now. tRump prob doesn't even know how to pronounce it.
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 06:44 AM
Nov 2019

Experienced State Dept staff may have recommended this and tRump probably has nothing to do with it.

If he does, it will come out soon. You can be sure D staffers are taking a look.

Stay focused on known facts and investigations. Let's not be distracted by speculation about things that might not mean anything.

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