Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Muddying the world's conscience: "In June, USAid, the body that coordinates funding for US overseas aid, ordered US NGOs to identify themselves more clearly as part of the US operation or lose their funding. A USAid coordinator, Andrew Natosis, said US NGOs should consider themselves 'an arm of the US government'....The choices are beginning to look stark for NGOs providing humanitarian relief in 'war on terror' conflicts - either act as sub-contractors for the superpower or pull out. "