From: PMW Bulletin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Norwegian Foreign Ministry admits giving "imprecise" information about PA use of foreign aid Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:09:27 +0000 Gt]risnw Bulletin March 20, 2013 Norway update: Norwegian Foreign Ministry admits giving Parliament "imprecise" information "obtained from the PA" and PM Salem Fayyad about the PA's using foreign aid to pay terrorist salaries Norway's Foreign Ministry: "It is unfortunate that the information that was first communicated [by the Foreign Ministry] to Parliament and which was based on information obtained from the PA at the time, in retrospect, is imprecise." Norway's Foreign Ministry's current statement corroborates PMW reports, which the Norwegian Foreign Ministry has questioned until now htt palwatch.orgimain.aspx?fi=157&doc d=8690 by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik The Norwegian Parliamentary Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs is not satisfied with the first answer it has received from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry regarding PA's using Norwegian aid for terrorist salaries. The Committee has "demanded a better and more thorough answer from the Foreign Ministry," Norwegian state-owned NRK TV's News reported last week. EFTA01144664