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War money accidentally offered to peaceful Slovenia

Date: March 29, 2003 | 25 Muharram 1424 Hijriah
Blog: The Clipboard
Subjects: antiwar

From an article1:

The United States mistakenly named Slovenia as a partner in its war against Iraq and even offered it a share of the money budgeted for the conflict, the tiny Alpine nation said on Thursday.

One day after hundreds of Slovenians hit the streets to protest the inclusion of their nation in Tuesday's U.S. war budget, Prime Minister Anton Rop said Washington goofed. (link)

This is an odd story. Good for Slovenia, though. Go, team!
Complete text of the article, War money accidentally offered to peaceful Slovenia, by Reuters

The United States mistakenly named Slovenia as a partner in its war against Iraq and even offered it a share of the money budgeted for the conflict, the tiny Alpine nation said on Thursday.
One day after hundreds of Slovenians hit the streets to protest the inclusion of their nation in Tuesday's U.S. war budget, Prime Minister Anton Rop said Washington goofed.

"When we asked for an explanation, the State Department told us we were named in the document by mistake as we are not a member of the coalition against Iraq," Rop told a hastily arranged news conference.

Slovenia was one of the states named in the $75 billion U.S. war budget which must be approved by Congress and includes grants to partners in the U.S.-led military action. Slovenia was slated to get $4.5 million from the budget, which Rop said will not be forthcoming.

"We are a part of no such coalition. We are a part of a coalition for peace," Rop said.

Slovenia also said on Thursday it had granted a U.S. request to allow airplanes with humanitarian aid, refugees and wounded fly over the country to and from Iraq.

But it stuck to an earlier decision to hold off a U.S. request to transport military equipment through the country, until the U.N. Security Council authorized force against Iraq.

Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the east and Croatia to the south.

reference=http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/313623|oddlyenough|03-28-2003::10:45|reuters.html
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a fair and balanced niqabi, at 11:58 AM

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Sikboj said: Total comments: 1  

As a Slovenian, I am really glad you posted this article on your page. I really don't feel comfortable being a part of this "peaceful coalition" Americans are talking about.

~ Posted at March 31, 2003 05:18 AM | Comment Permalink
sad Slovenian said: Total comments: 1  

Salam,

Unfortunately Slovenian government does support American-British war on Iraq.

sad

~ Posted at April 1, 2003 02:14 AM | Comment Permalink

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