OBAMA SEEMS TO HAVE HAD AN ONGOING RELATIONSHIP WITH TERRORISTS


By David Hinz

By now, I am sure, most of the regular internet posters on either side of the political divide are aware of the 1995 connection between Barack Obama and William Ayres, famed Weatherman terrorist. Conservatives look at that relationship and question his judgment. Liberals look at that relationship and point out that it was more than a decade ago, and what is the big deal anyway?

But, as we have begun to learn more about the man behind Obamamania, we are finding that there is much more in his past that calls into question more than just his judgment.

His 20 year relationship with the right Rev Wright, and that man's clear anti-American rhetoric has caused people to take a much harder look into Obama, the man, and his past associations.

Ayres and his wife Bernardine Dohrn were 1960s terrorist who waged war against their own government, setting off bombs in building around the country. Leftist tell us that was a long time ago, a different and difficult time in our nation's history. But a New York Times article in 2001 demonstrated that they are unrepentant in their hatred for their country.

As noted by David Horowitz in FrontPage Magazine:

ON THE MORNING OF THE ATTACKS on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times including many who would never be able to read the paper again, I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. The article was headlined in an irony that could not have been more poignant, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives." The couple pictured were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the 1960s’ Weather Underground, America’s first terrorist cult. One of their bombing targets, as it happened, was the Pentagon.

That 1995 meeting, in the home of Ayres and Dohrn was Obama's introduction to Chicago politics. Ayres, a known former domestic terrorist was a mover and shaker in Chicago politics, and it was known that if you wanted to make it, you went through him. State Senator Alice Palmer facilitated the introduction:

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

…"I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress," said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. "[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor."

Obama and Palmer "were both there," he said.

This meeting is, as they say, old news. Those on the left have shrugged it off, suggesting that it was a one-time introduction, there was no ongoing relationship, and it is of little consequence. But there is growing evidence of an ongoing relationship.

From 1999 through December 2002 Ayres and Obama served together as directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago. That non-profit organization provided two gratns in 2001 and 2002 to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, of $40,000 and $35,000 respectively. The AAAN was run by co-founders Rashid and Mona Khalidi.

Rashid Khalidi is a Columbia University professor who previously worked for the PLO, a terrorist organization, and hosted a fund raiser for Obama's US Senate bid.

Khalidi said he supports Obama for president "because he is the only candidate who has expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause."

Khalidi also lauded Obama for "saying he supports talks with Iran. If the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it can’t talk with the Iranians."

When questioned about his relationship with the Woods Fund, which provided more than one-quarter of the groups funding, Khalidi lied, claiming no knowledge of the non-profit organization.

Concerning Obama’s role in funding AAAN, Khalidi claimed he "never heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago." He terminated the interview when pressed further about his links with Obama.

While we have been treated to stories of Tony Rezko and his involvement in helping to finance Obama's home purchase, the fact that the Syrian-born Rezko has, himself ties to terrorism has gone largely unnoticed.

However, not that Mr. Rezko was re-arrested because he was a flight risk to Middle Eastern countries that do not have an extradition treaty with the United States.

Tony Rezko received a $3.5 million loan from Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi arms dealer with ties to Saddam Hussein. From Jack Kelly at RealClearPolitics.com we have this:

A British citizen of Iraqi descent, Mr. Auchi, 70, is a billionaire, the 279th richest man in the world, according to a Forbes magazine survey last year.

A great deal of Mr. Auchi's money was made doing business with the regime of Saddam Hussein, much of it under the table. In 1987, Mr. Auchi helped French and Italian firms win a huge oil pipeline contract in Iraq, chiefly by paying off Iraqi officials, according to testimony given by an Italian banker to prosecutors in Milan. In 2003, he was convicted for his role in what was then the largest scandal in French history, involving payoffs from executives of the oil company now known as Total to political figures in Spain, Germany and Africa.

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Mr. Auchi was a leading supplier of arms to Saddam's regime. A former Belgian ambassador to Luxembourg charged that a bank in Luxembourg owned principally by Mr. Auchi laundered funds -- including oil for food money -- for Saddam and other Islamic dictators.

The deeper we look into the past of Sen Obama, and shine the light of truth onto his shady friends and financial supporters, the more it becomes apparent that he is NO agent of Hope and Change, but just another slimy leftist politician, with anti-American leanings, who will do anything to become president.

In a new piece entitled Will Barack Obama Betray Us If Elected? Gordon Taylor looks at Barack Obama and his endorsement from Hamas.