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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wraith: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [qb] Oh, any information on the condition of the UK/US Indian Ocean Territory - which is somewhere south of India? [/qb][/QUOTE]British Indian Ocean Territory. Permanent population: 0, due to them being cleared out for a large US base. They got warned. No casualties that I know of. Updated aid estimates: World Bank: $250m UK: $96m Sweden: $75m China: $60m France: $56m EU $44m Netherlands: $36m US: $35m Canada: $33m Japan: $30m Australia: $27m Denmark: $15.6m Saudi Arabia: $10m Norway: $6.6m Taiwan: $5.1m Finland: $3.4m Kuwait: $2.1m UAE: $2m Again, from the [URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4136781.stm]BBC[/URL] You can partly see why the US is reluctant to increase it's donations; it has no historical ties or responsibilities to the area, unlike the UK, Netherlands and France. It would have been nice if this hadn't become an issue but it seems politics will infect anything, given half a chance... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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