WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The State Department said in a statement Tuesday that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that’s been accepted.
The identities of all 12 countries and international organizations were not immediately announced. One country was cited in the State Department statement — Japan, which is providing two high-speed skimmers and fire containment boom.
More than 30 countries and international organizations have offered to help with the spill. The State Department hasn’t indicated why some offers have been accepted and others have not.
“I’m having a Katrina flashback,” said the Bay St. Louis Democrat after an aerial survey of the Mississippi Sound and barrier islands Saturday morning. “I haven’t seen this much incompetence since Michael Brown was running FEMA.”
Brown was the FEMA director who was fired for a faulty response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Taylor flew with U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Tupelo, as far east as Ship Island and west to Cat Island from the Gulfport airport on a National Guard Black Hawk helicopter.
NOGALES, Ariz. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales arrested an elderly woman carrying 10.5 pounds of marijuana strapped to her body.
On Tuesday, March 30, CBP officers working the Morley Pedestrian Gate encountered a 94-year-old Mexican woman from Nogales, Sonora, walking into the United States for a day of shopping.
A CBP officer became suspicious and referred the woman for further inspection. A thorough inspection resulted in the discovery of 10.5 pounds of marijuana strapped to the woman’s body from her torso to her legs.
The marijuana, 6 bundles with an estimated street value of $5250.00, was seized. The woman was turned over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents for further investigation.
SEAL the border Obama administration…just seal seal it.
A senior Hamas figure said Friday that official and unofficial US sources have asked the Islamist group to refrain from making any statements regarding contacts with Washington, this following reports that a senior American official is due to arrive in an Arab country in the coming days to relay a telegram from the Obama Administration.
The Hamas figure told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that the Americans fear discussing the talks publicly would “rouse the Jewish lobby and other pressure groups in the US and cause them to pressure the administration to suspend all talks with Hamas.”
The Hamas figure, who is close to Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the government in Gaza, added, “This is a sensitive subject. The Americans don’t want anyone to comment on it because this would catch the attention of pressure groups (in the US) and cause problems.”
