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EX500rider

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2. "Largest foreign aid recipient outside the Middle East."

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Oct 23, 2014, 03:47 PM

Oct 2014

Only if you think Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Kenya are in the Middle East...when they are actually in central Asia and Africa.

U.S. Total Economic and Military Assistance FY 2012, $US millions
Afghanistan 12,885.50
Israel 3,100.10
Iraq 1,940.10
Egypt 1,404.00
Pakistan 1,214.90
Jordan 1,135.30
Ethiopia 870.10
Kenya 749.20
Colombia 644.30
Haiti 510.40
West Bank/Gaza 457.40

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid#Usage_of_Money_for_Support

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