(Washington Times) David R. Sands - James Kunder, deputy assistant administrator for Asia and the Near East at the U.S. Agency for International Development, has acknowledged that the agency made a "mistake" in its grant for the new Salah Khalaf Recreation and Sports Center in the West Bank village of al-Fara'a, named for the man considered the spiritual godfather of the Palestinian terrorist Black September organization. The U.S. charity Save the Children received a USAID grant to help build the center. "That was a mistake; we should have checked it better," Kunder said. "We will be demanding on behalf of the U.S. government that the name of the center be changed."
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