The settlers say they used money from a wealthy American donor to buy the building from a man living in Jordan.

He also said that he considered the money offered by private American donors to be a contribution to the Louvre, and not a fee.

Its fully assembled performance had to be cancelled at the last minute because the final $1.2 million couldn't be raised from American donors.

The caves have been converted to usable space with anonymous funding from an American donor.

An American donor paid for anti-retroviral therapy for him, but his disease was very advanced.

Construction of the field in 1983, funded by American donors, took six weeks.

It is being run jointly by European and American donors, who are providing cash for 98 children to pay their way through top schools.

One anonymous American donor has pledged $3 million toward the $18 million project, but $8 million still needs to be raised.

The project took about six weeks, financed by $20,000 from American donors.

What particularly angers the critics is the belief, which they see as especially prevalent among American donors, that any gift is better than none.