Palau ups pressure for more US aid over Gitmo deal.

I don't blame Palau one bit for trying to put the hurt on Obama for more aid since taking in 13 Uighurs from Gitmo. America is on the hot seat over this and Palau loses nothing if nothing comes to pass by rejecting the prisoners.

Palau is asking longtime benefactor the United States for a 35-year extension on direct aid funding -- and hinting Washington should say yes because of its offer to take in 13 Guantánamo Bay detainees. Both Palauan and U.S. officials have denied any direct link between the country's willingness to take in the Chinese Muslim Uighurs and American aid. But Palau negotiators say they are proposing the extension in a formal 15-year review of the Compact of Free Association between the two countries that underpins the tiny island state's economy. ....Toribiong did not specifically mention the Uighurs. But the head of Palau's negotiating team, Joshua Koshiba, said the offer to take the Chinese detainees was "a positive for the negotiation" on the compact. "I can point my finger at them now and say, 'See, we are helping you too, without asking for help only,'" Koshiba told AP. If the U.S. doesn't agree to Palau's new terms, Koshiba said, his country will weigh its options. "When you have a friend, if they don't want to be your friend anymore, what do you do? Don't you look for another friend?" Koshiba said.