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Obama's cousin Raila Odinga

Raila Odinga

Raila Odinga is the current Prime Minister of Kenya, and has been a Member of Parliament in that nation since 1992. He is also a first cousin of Barack Obama, whose late Muslim father was Odinga’s maternal uncle. Today Odinga heads the same Luo tribe to which the elder Obama belonged.

In 1982 Odinga collaborated in a failed coup attempt against Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi, an act for which he was subsequently detained without trial for six years. Odinga was released in February 1988 but was rearrested seven months later for his involvement with the Kenya Revolutionary Movement (KRM), an underground organization calling for multi-party democracy in Kenya, which was then a one-party state. He was released in June 1989, was re-incarcerated the following month, and finally was released again on June 21, 1991. Four months thereafter he fled to Norway.

In 1992 Odinga returned to Kenya and was elected to his parliamentary post. He served as Minister of Energy from 2001 to 2002, and as Minister of Roads, Public Works and Housing from 2003 to 2005.

In 2007 Odinga, with the political aim of establishing Islamic Law (Sharia) throughout Kenya (where the current population is majority-Christian), challenged incumbent Mwai Kibaki for the office of President. The December 27 election was fraught with irregularities on both sides, and the Kenyan election commission declared Kibaki the winner by a margin of some 230,000 votes.

Odinga protested the results, alleging fraud by the election commission. Two months of violent tribal riots ensued across the country, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, the displacement of another 600,000, and the destruction of some 800 Christian churches nationwide.

In February 2008, former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan brokered a deal between Odinga and Kibaki; the pair signed a power-sharing agreement calling for the creation of the post of Prime Minister, into which Odinga was sworn on April 17, 2008.

During a New Hampshire campaign stop in the spring of 2008, Barack Obama interrupted his schedule to speak by phone with Odinga. “He has called me to talk about the destabilizing constitutional crisis in this country,” Odinga explained. Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed that this conversation did indeed take place. WorldNet Daily (WND) journalist Jerome Corsi, author of the book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, subsequently reported that Obama "was in contact with Odinga almost daily from the New Hampshire primary, by cell phone, calling Kenya."[1]

In October 2008, Corsi traveled to Kenya to learn more about the links between Obama and Odinga. Corsi found: (a) that the pair had been in direct contact on a regular basis since Obama’s 2006 visit to Kenya, where he publicly supported Odinga's candidacy for the presidential election which was to be held the following year; (b) that Obama, knowing Odinga was running on a pro-Sharia platform, had advised the latter on campaign strategy; and (c) that Obama had helped Odinga raise money in theUnited States for his (Odinga's) presidential campaign in 2007.

After having gathered this information, Corsi announced that he would soon hold a news conference to “expose details of deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya, and [the] subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency.”

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Obama's friend Robert Malley (under the bus he went)

Robert Malley

A Harvard-trained lawyer and Rhodes Scholar, Robert Malley is the Middle East and North Africa Program Director for theInternational Crisis Group (ICG), which receives funding from the Open Society Institute (whose founder, Obama supporter George Soros, serves on the ICG Board and Executive Committee).

Prior to joining ICG, Malley served as President Bill Clinton’s Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs (1998-2001); National Security Advisor Sandy Berger’s Executive Assistant (1996-1998); and the National Security Council’s Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs (1994-1996).

Malley’s father, Simon Malley, was a key figure in the Egyptian Communist Party. Rabidly anti-Israel, Simon Malley was a confidante of the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat; an inveterate critic of “Western imperialism”; a supporter of various leftist revolutionary “liberation movements,” particularly the Palestinian cause; a beneficiary of Soviet funding; and a supporter of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

In a July 2001 op-ed, Robert Malley alleged that Israeli -- not Palestinian -- inflexibility had caused the previous year's Camp David peace talks (brokered by Bill Clinton) to fail. This was one of several controversial articles Malley has written -- some he co-wrote with Hussein Agha, a former adviser to Arafat -- blaming Israel and exonerating Arafat for that failure.

Malley’s identification of Israel as the cause of the Camp David failure has been widely embraced by Palestinian and Arab activists around the world, by Holocaust deniers like Norman Finkelstein, and by anti-Israel publications such as Counterpunch.According to American Thinker news editor Ed Lasky, Malley “was also believed to be the chief source for an article [dated July 26, 2001] by Deborah Sontag that whitewashed Arafat’s role in the collapse of the peace process, an article that has been widely criticized as riddled with errors and bias.”

In 2007 Malley became a foreign policy advisor to presidential candidate Barack Obama. In 2008, however, the Obama campaign severed its ties with Malley after the latter told the Times of London that he [Malley] had been in regular contact with Hamas as part of his work for ICG.

To view a comprehensive profile and numerous supplemental resources about Robert Malley, click here.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/robertmalley.html

Flashback:  

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Obama-Malley: Positioning Against Israel?

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Obama advisor: Anthony Lake

Anthony Lake

In his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama named former New Leftist Anthony Lake as one of his leading foreign policy advisors.

Lake served as a special assistant for national security affairs under President Nixon in 1969-70, but soon thereafter he stepped down from that post to protest the Nixon administration’s bombing raids in Cambodia -- raids that were designed to support the existing government against the power-grabbing efforts of Pol Pot and his bloodthirsty Khmer Rouge.

By 1972 Lake was an activist in Democrat George McGovern’s presidential campaign, whose platform was founded on the axiom that the military conflicts of Southeast Asia were rooted in the “arrogance of American power” rather than in Communist aggression.

During this period, many American leftists openly supported a Communist takeover in Southeast Asia. Among the most notable advocates of this position were the popular actress Jane Fonda and her husband Tom Hayden. With a nation deeply divided thanks to the pressures of the anti-war left and a Democratic Party that had turned its back on the war, Nixon was persuaded that the United States could neither win the war nor maintain its armies in the battle. In 1973 he signed a truce with North Vietnam that led to the withdrawal of all American forces. Nixon hoped the agreement would preserve the governments of Cambodia and South Vietnam. But the North Vietnamese had no intention of observing the truce; neither did Pol Pot.

Months later, the American anti-war Left and its allies in the Democratic Party led by Senator Edward Kennedy brought down the Nixon presidency in the Watergate affair. That year’s midterm elections, which were held just three months after Nixon’s resignation, resulted in catastrophic losses for Republicans and ushered in a new group of Democratic legislators determined to undo the Nixon peace policy and surrender Cambodia and Vietnam to the Communists.

The first act of the newly elected Democrat Congress was to cut off funding for the governments of South Vietnam and Cambodia in January 1975. When Republicans warned that a Pol Pot victory would inevitably result in a Cambodian “bloodbath,” Lake and his fellow anti-war Democrats accused their critics of trying to stir up “anti-Communist hysteria.”

In March 1975 Lake wrote a Washington Post column titled “At Stake in Cambodia: Extending Aid [to the government] Will Only Prolong the Killing.” In that piece, he reaffirmed the Left’s position that the Khmer Rouge was not a totalitarian force, but rather a coalition of “many Khmer nationalists, Communist and non-Communist,” whose only ambition was to gain independence for the Cambodian people. He warned that if America were to alienate the Khmer Rouge, it would only “push them further into the arms of their Communist supporters.”

The Khmer Rouge, Lake conceded, “are indeed supported by Hanoi, Peking, and Moscow. But to the extent we know much about them, they include many Khmer nationalists, Communist and non-Communist. Once they gain power, we must hope for as much nationalism on their part as possible.” Calling for “an immediate, peaceful turning over of power” to Pol Pot, Lake backed the American cutoff of support for non-Communists, who he believed should be barred from playing any role in Cambodia’s new government. “Why should the Khmer Rouge agree to share power when they can expect to seize it?” he asked.

After U.S. funding was cut, the governments of Cambodia and South Vietnam were quickly overrun by the Communists. Cambodia fell on April 17, when Khmer Rouge forces took control of Phnom Penh. The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon surrendered thirteen days later and was immediately renamed Ho Chi Minh City, as the Communists proceeded to execute tens of thousands of Vietnamese while more than a million fled the country. During the next three years, the Communists killed nearly 3 million Indo-Chinese peasants in one of the most horrific genocidal campaigns in the recorded history of mankind.

Notably, Lake’s poor judgment cost him nothing politically. President Jimmy Carter appointed him to be the State Department’s Policy Planning Director from 1977-81. In the 1990s Bill Clinton named him as his National Security Advisor. And of course, in 2008 Barack Obama became the latest Democrat to hire Lake for his purported expertise in foreign affairs.

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Obama and William Ayers friend; Marilyn Katz

Marilyn Katz

An aide to then-Chicago mayor Harold Washington from 1983-87, Marilyn Katz is currently a public relations professional who serves on Barack Obama’s national finance committee. In 2005, Katz and the longtime Marxist and Obama supporter Carl Davidson co-authored the book Stopping War, Seeking Justice. In conjunction with Davidson, Katz was one of the two chieforganizers of the October 2002 anti-war demonstration in Chicago where Obama first went public with his opposition to the Iraq War. In 1968, Katz was head of security for the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) during the Chicago street riots that took place while the Democratic Party held its national convention in that city.

Katz, who now heads MK Communications and is a registered lobbyist with the City of Chicago, has personally contributed $1,000 to Obama for America, the eponymous candidate’s presidential campaign fund. She is also part of a fundraising team that has committed to raising a minimum of $200,000 for Obama’s campaign.

Katz has long been acquainted with Obama supporter and former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers. In April 2008 Katz told theChicago Sun-Times that she had first met Ayers when he was a 17-year-old fellow member of Students for a Democratic Society, "a peaceful group from which the Weather Underground splintered." (emphasis added)

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/mkatz2.html

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Obama's friend; Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson

In June 2008, Barack Obama appointed Jim Johnson to co-chair his vice presidential search committee. Johnson, who formerly had served as an advisor for Democrat presidential nominees Walter Mondale (1984) and John Kerry (2004), was the CEO of the government-backed mortgage lender, Fannie Mae, in the mid-1990s. During that same period, he also headed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Brookings Institution. Columnist Michelle Malkin explains the significance of Obama’s relationship with Johnson:

“Johnson [when he was with Fannie Mae] accepted more than $7 million in below-market-rate loans from scandal-plagued subprime lender Countrywide Financial Corp. The company’s CEO, Angelo Mozilo, had set up a very special loan program [offering rates below the market average] for his high-powered pals [Johnson and friends]. Johnson had named Mozilo to Fannie Mae’s national advisory committee more than a decade ago and they maintained a cozy friendship. Mozilo also happens to be one of Obama’s fattest targets in his frequent broadsides against the demons of the mortgage industry. Obama likened Mozilo to a virus in March [2008]: ‘These are the people who are responsible for infecting the economy and helping to create a home foreclosure crisis…. These executives crossed the line to boost their bottom line.’ During the [Democratic primary] battle with Hillary, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe was dispatched to the cable TV airwaves to inveigh: ‘If we’re really going to crack down on the practices that caused the credit and housing crises, we’re going to need a leader who doesn’t owe these industries any favors.’”

As a result of Johnson’s involvement in the foregoing controversy, he resigned from his position on Obama’s VP search committee on June 11, 2008.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/jimjohnson.html

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Obama's Radical friend Minha Husaini

Minha Husaini

Minha Husaini is the woman who succeeded Mazen Asbahi as the Obama presidential campaign's Muslim outreach coordinator in August 2008.

Husaini has an Islamist background, having served as an intern in the Muslim Public Service Network. Immediately upon her appointment by Obama, Husaini met with a group of about thirty Muslims including such notorious figures as the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Nihad Awad; the Muslim American Society's Mahdi Bray (who has publicly supported the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups); and Johari Abdul Malik of the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Virginia (who has advised American Muslims: "You can blow up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way to work").

-- Information courtesy of Daniel Pipes

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Obama's friend Kenny Gamble; Also known as Luqman Abdul-Haqq

Kenny Gamble

Also known as Luqman Abdul-Haqq, Kenny Gamble is a once-prominent pop music producer. In August 2008, he cut the ribbon to the Obama campaign headquarters housed in a south Philadelphia building which he owns. Gamble is an Islamist who buys large swaths of real estate in Philadelphia to create a Muslim-only residential area. Also, as the self-styled "amir" of the United Muslim Movement, he has many links to Islamist organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Alliance of North America.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/kennygamble.html

The history of the United States runs through Philadelphia. It is there that the American Revolution was born. However, a new revolution threatens to take hold of Philly, a Muslim one. It is led by one of Philadelphia's favorite sons, singer/songwriter/producer Kenny Gamble (a.k.a. Luqman Abdul Haqq), who has a master plan to renovate a once great part of the city using taxpayers' money. While on face value his intentions appear to be worthy, Gamble's revitalization plan for Philadelphia has sinister implications, leading to the question: Will Philadelphia remain "the City of Brotherly Love" or will it become a city of Muslim Brotherly hate?The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) or Ikhwan in America exists, in large part, within two immigrant populations. One is the Arab Muslim community, falling under the aegis of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and to a smaller extent the Muslim American Society (MAS). The other is the South Asian Muslim community, positioned under the umbrella of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a subsidiary of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in Pakistan. These groups form the core of MB America. Still, there is a third U.S. Muslim population of much less acclaim/notoriety. It is the African American Muslim community, and it consists mainly of converts who fall within a number of categories, many of which overlap, including black power advocates, racial separatists, ex-felons, anti-Semites and hate America firsters. There are two organizations that encompass all of the above: the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black supremacist group that is built upon the hatred of whites and Jews, and the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), the African American version of ISNA and ICNA. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine

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Obama's White House Counsel: Greg Craig

Greg Craig

 An antiwar protester in the 1960s, Greg Craig is an attorney who served as a senior adviser (on defense, foreign policy, and national security issues) to Senator Ted Kennedy from 1974 to 1988. In 1997 he was appointed by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as a senior adviser and a director of policy planning for the Bill Clintonadministration. In 2008 he became a top foreign policy adviser to presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Nicknamed by some “the lawyer of the left,” Craig has provided legal representation for a host of controversial defendants over the course of his professional career. According to the American Future Fund, a nonprofit organization that seeks to provide conservatives with “a mechanism to communicate ... on the issues that most ... concern them,” Craig “has a history of defending corrupt foreign leaders and murderers.”

One of Craig’s clients was John Hinckley Jr., the would-be assassin who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981. According to WorldNetDaily, “Craig was reportedly the architect of Hinckley's successful defense in which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, even though reports by the federal prosecution found Hinckley sane.”

In 1991 Craig represented Ted Kennedy and his accused nephew, William Kennedy Smith, in a Florida rape case where the young defendant was acquitted of the charges against him.

In 1998 Craig defended Bill Clinton during the impeachment hearings over the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.

In the infamous Elian Gonzalez child custody case of 2000, Craig successfully represented Juan Miguel Gonzalez, the Cuban father of six-year-old Elian. Craig reportedly played a significant role in the decision to have U.S. marshals seize the boy and return him to Cuba, an outcome that was widely viewed as a victory for Fidel Castro.

Craig also defended former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez-Berzain, who was charged with “crimes against humanity” for having suppressed labor union riots in 2003 by ordering his army to massacre scores of unarmed civilians.

In 2004 Craig was counsel for then-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during investigations into the scandalous UN Oil-for-Food Program, which had allowed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to skim more than $21 billion from its coffers.

Craig also has represented Panamanian National Assembly president Pedro Miguel Gonzalez-Pinzon, a Manuel Noriega loyalistwho is believed to have been responsible for the 1992 murder of U.S. Army soldier Zak Hernandez Laporte and the attempted murder of another American soldier. According to a January 2008 Dallas Morning News editorial, “The murder indictment, combined with Mr. Gonzalez’s leadership position, is hindering bilateral relations and causing a new U.S.-Panama free trade accord to stall in the Senate, where Mr. Obama holds office.”

To view some supplemental resources about Greg Craig, click here.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/greggcraig.html

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Obama's Radical friend; Mazen Asbahi

Mazen Asbahi

 Mazen Asbahi is a Chicago-based Muslim attorney who served as the Obama presidential campaign's first Muslim outreach coordinator.

  He resigned in August 2008 (ten days after his appointment) when it came to light that he had served, with Jamal Said (an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Hamas funding trial), on the board of a subsidiary of the Saudi-sponsored North American Islamic Trust.

  Asbahi also has ties to the Chicago and Detroit offices of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to the Islamic Society of North America (yet another unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas funding trial), to the Muslim Brotherhood, and to other Islamist organizations.

-- Information courtesy of Daniel Pipes

If you think the cartoon above is misleading, take a gander at this for proof:

Click below:

>Hamas Mickey Mouse Teaches Terror to Kids<

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Obama's friend Ali Abunimah

Ali Abunimah

Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian American who co-founded Electronic Intifada, a website that seeks to discredit what it deems "the prevailing pro-Israeli slant in U.S. media coverage by offering information from a Palestinian perspective." With close ties to theInternational Solidarity Movement, Electronic Intifada refers to Israel's 1948 creation as Al Nakba (Arabic for "The Catastrophe").

Abunimah also serves as a board member of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network (AAAN), whose mission -- "to challenge government policies that violate the civil, political and human rights of the Arab American and Arab immigrant community" -- is rooted firmly in the belief that Arab Americans face widespread discrimination in the United States. In particular, AAAN complains that its eponymous demographic is targeted routinely for "detentions," "deportations," and all manner of "attacks." "Biased reporting, media stereotypes, and the criminalization of Arabs and Muslims" are also matters of great concern, says AAAN. Vis a vis Israel, AAAN laments "the compelling and continuing tragedy of Palestinian life ... under [Israeli] occupation," and, like Electronic Intifada, refers to Israel's creation as Al Nakba.

In Abunimah's calculus, Palestinian violence and terrorism is caused entirely by Israel's "land confiscation," its "ongoing orgy of violence," and its "routine human-rights abuses" that have "made life under a seemingly endless occupation so intolerable."

According to Abunimah, "Zionist leaders, academics, and propagandists are actually professional, malicious liars as much as they are violent, merciless murderers." From that premise, Abunimah reasons: "[I]f lying is Israel's best policy,  shouldn't the world  doubt the Zionists' official stories about  the holocaust, for example?  Indeed, if Zionists could lie about their present and ongoing torment of my [Palestinian] people, usurpation of my homeland and arrogation of my rights, and they do it rather obscenely, couldn't they likewise lie, equally obscenely, about the holocaust, an event that took place over half a century ago?"

In the late 1990s, Abunimah met Barack Obama for the first time when the latter was a representative in the Illinois state senate. "He [Obama] impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic," says Abunimah. "I distinctly remember thinking, 'if only a man of this caliber could become president one day.'"

In 2001 and 2002, the Woods Fund of Chicago, whose board of directors included Barack Obama, made grants totaling $75,000 to Abunimah's AAAN.

Said Abunimah in March 2007: "Over the years since I first saw Obama speak, I met him about half a dozen times, often at Palestinian and Arab-American community events in Chicago including a May 1998 community fundraiser at which Edward Said was the keynote speaker. In 2000, when Obama unsuccessfully ran for Congress I heard him speak at a campaign fundraiser hosted by a University of Chicago professor [Khalidi]." "[Obama] came [to that fundraiser] with his wife," Abunimah recounts. "That's where I had a chance to really talk to him. It was an intimate setting. He convinced me he was very aware of the issues [and] critical of U.S. bias toward Israel and lack of sensitivity to Arabs.... He was very supportive of U.S. pressure on Israel." "On that occasion and others," Abunimah has written, "Obama was forthright in his criticism of U.S. policy and his call for an even-handed approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict." 

In January 2008, Abunimah told interviewer Amy Goodman: "I knew Barack Obama for many years as my state senator -- when he used to attend events in the Palestinian community in Chicago all the time. I remember personally introducing him onstage in 1999, when we had a major community fundraiser for the community center in Deheisha refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. And that's just one example of how Barack Obama used to be very comfortable speaking up for and being associated with Palestinian rights and opposing the Israeli occupation."

In March 2007 Abunimah alleged, with displeasure, that Obama had become more sympathetic to Israel in recent years. SaidAbunimah: "If disappointing, given his historically close relations to Palestinian-Americans, Obama's about-face is not surprising. He is merely doing what he thinks is necessary to get elected and he will continue doing it as long as it keeps him in power."

"The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood," Abunimahadded. "He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing. As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, 'Hey, I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.' He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and U.S. policy, 'Keep up the good work!'"

To view a profile and some additional resources about Ali Abunimah, click here.

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