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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/world/middleeast/22diplo.html
Wary of Hamas, U.S. Is to Trim Aid to Palestinian Forces
[New York Times] Helene Cooper - The Bush administration will reduce by about 40% the aid it is seeking from Congress for the security forces of Mahmoud Abbas, and set new conditions for monitoring the money because of concerns that some of it could end up with Hamas, administration officials said Wednesday. Secretary of State Rice told a House panel on Wednesday that she would soon send Congress a revised package that would try to restrict the use of the money to security forces loyal to Abbas.