Sunday, February 12, 2012

Credit the genius of Salam Fayyad

"Hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Palestinian Authority security programs have been misspent amid lack of coordination, a report said. The Bipartisan Policy Center asserted that the United States competes with other countries in efforts to build PA security forces. The center, in a report titled “A Stitch in Time: Stabilizing Fragile States,” asserted that the lack of coordination between donor states has resulted in an ineffective program as well as lack of U.S. control over PA security in the West Bank.  This is a perfect recipe for an ineffective rule of law,” the report, authored by former U.S. ambassador Paula Dobriansky and retired Adm. Gregory Johnson, said. The report, released in May 2011, said Washington was seeking to build a so-called gendarmerie for the PA. The United States was also relaying aid, training and equipment to organize the PA Interior Ministry to ensure civilian control over the security forces."