Obama Had Close Ties to Top Saudi Adviser at Early Age
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I wonder how many AUS and Europeon politicians have similar ties to
Saudi Barbarian petroeuros or petrodollars?
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The truth is always defined as hate
speech by those who have something
to hide.
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> http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490...
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> I wonder how many AUS and Europeon politicians have similar ties to
> Saudi Barbarian petroeuros or petrodollars?
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> The truth is always defined as hate
> speech by those who have something
> to hide.
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Obama Had Close Ties to Top Saudi Adviser at Early Age
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 5:58 PM
New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a
Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black
Panthers.
In a videotaped interview this year on New York’s all news cable
channel NY1, a prominent African-American businessman and political
figure made the curious disclosures about Obama. (See Video Clip
Below)
Percy Sutton, the former borough president of Manhattan, off-handedly
revealed the unusual circumstances about his first encounter with the
young Obama.
“I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for
him,” Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter.
“The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas,” Sutton said.
“He is the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He
told me about Obama.”
[Editor's Note: Read the Newsmax Article “Who Is Khalid al-Mansour?”
Go Here Now].
Sutton, the founder of Inner City Broadcasting, said al-Mansour
contacted him to ask a favor: Would Sutton write a letter in support
of Obama’s application to Harvard Law School?
“He wrote to me about him,” Sutton recalled. “And his introduction was
there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have
a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would
you please write a letter in support of him?”
Sutton said he acted on his friend al-Mansour’s advice.
“I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying
to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available
and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly,” Sutton told NY1.
Sutton did not say why al-Mansour was helping Obama, how he discovered
him, or from whom he was raising money on Obama’s behalf.
A Sutton aide told Newsmax that Sutton, 88, is ailing and is unlikely
to do additional TV interviews in the near future. The aide could not
provide additional comment for this story.
As it turned out, Obama did attend Harvard Law School after graduating
from Columbia University in New York and doing a stint as a community
organizer in Chicago.
The New York Times described how transformative his Harvard experience
became for the young Obama: “He arrived there as an unknown, Afro-
wearing community organizer who had spent years searching for his
identity; by the time he left, he had his first national news media
exposure, a book contract and a shot of confidence from running the
most powerful legal journal in the country.”
The details of Obama’s academic performance are well known: At
Harvard, Obama rose to academic distinction becoming the editor of the
Harvard Law Review and graduating magna cum laude.
Less known are the reasons al-Mansour, an activist African-American
Muslim, would be a key backer for a young man from Hawaii seeking to
attend the most Ivy of the Ivy League law schools.
Khalid al-Mansour a.k.a. Don Warden
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax from his home in San Antonio,
Texas, al-Mansour said he would not comment specifically on the
statement by Percy Sutton because he was afraid anything he said would
get “distorted.”
“I was determined I was never going to be in that situation,” he said.
“Bloggers are saying this is the new Rev. Wright — in drag! — and he
is a nationalist, racist, and worse than Rev. Wright. So any statement
that I made would only further this activity which is not in the
interest of Barack.”
But in the lengthy interview, al-Mansour confirmed that he frequently
spoke on university campuses, including Columbia, where Percy Sutton
suggested he met Obama in the late 1980s, and confirmed his close
relationship with Prince Alwaleed.
“I am not surprised to learn about this,” said Niger Innis, spokesman
of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). “It is clear that Barack
Obama’s ties to the left are familial, generational, and have lasted
for several years.” Innis is scheduled to address the Republican
Convention in St. Paul, Minn at 7:43 PM Eastern time on Thursday.
Although many Americans have never heard of Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-
Mansour (his full name), he is well known within the black community
as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an author, an
international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken enemy of
Israel.
A graduate of Howard University with a law degree from the University
of California, al-Mansour sits on numerous corporate boards, including
the Saudi African Bank and Chicago-based LaGray Chemical Co. LaGray,
which was formed to do business in Africa, counts former Nigerian
President General Abdusalam Abubakar on its advisory board.
He also sits on the board of the non-profit African Leadership
Academy, along with top McCain for President adviser Carly Fiorina,
and organized a tribute to the President of Ghana at the Clinton White
House in 1995, along with pop star Michael Jackson.
But his writings and books are packed with anti-American rhetoric
reminiscent of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s disgraced former
pastor.
In a 1995 book, “The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered,” he alleged
that the United States was plotting genocide against black Americans.
The first "genocide against the black man began 300 years ago," he
told an audience in Harlem at a book-signing, while a second
"genocide" was on the way “to remove 15 million Black people,
considered disposable, of no relevance, value or benefit to the
American society.”
In the 1960s, when he founded the African American Association in the
San Francisco Bay area, he was known as Donald Warden.
According to the Social Activism Project at the University of
California at Berkley, Warden, a.k.a. Khalid al-Mansour, was the
mentor of Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton and his cohort,
Bobby Seale.
Newton later had a falling out with Warden, who was described in a
1994 book as “the most articulate spokesperson for black nationalism”
at the time.
The falling out wasn’t purely political, according to author Hugh
Pearson.
“Sometimes Newton and the other members of (Warden’s) security detail
got into fights with young whites who didn’t like what Warden had to
say about whites. Rather than ‘throw down’ along with the security
detail, Warden refused to fight,” Pearson wrote in “Shadow of the
Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America.”
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee of California entered an official statement of
appreciation of Warden and his Black Panther colleagues in the African-
American Association in the Congressional Record on April 23, 2007.
“Among the founding members (of the Association) were community
leaders such as Khalid Al-Mansour (known then as Don Warden); future
Judges Henry Ramsey and Thelton Henderson; future Congressman and
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, and future Black Panthers Huey Newton and
Bobby Seale,” the Democratic representative’s statement said.
Al-Mansour’s more recent videotaped speeches focus on Muslim themes,
and abound with anti-Semitic theories and anti-Israel vitriol.
“Today, the Palestinians are being brutalized like savages,” he told
an audience in South Africa. “If you protest you will go to jail, and
you may be killed. And they say they are the only democratic country
in the Middle East. ... They are lying on God.”
He accused the Jews of “stealing the land the same way the Christians
stole the land from the Indians in America.”
The Saudi Connection
But al-Mansour’s sponsorship of Obama as a prospective Harvard law
student is important for another reason beyond his Islamic and anti-
American rhetoric and early Black Panther ties.
At the time Percy Sutton, a former lawyer for Malcolm X and a former
business partner of al-Mansour, says he was raising money for Obama’s
graduate school education, al-Mansour was representing top members of
the Saudi Royal family seeking to do business and exert influence in
the United States.
In 1989, for example — just one year after Obama entered Harvard Law
School — The Los Angeles Times revealed that al-Mansour had been
advising Saudi billionaires Abdul Aziz and Khalid al-Ibrahim in their
secret effort to acquire a major stake in prime oceanfront property in
Marina del Rey, Calif., through “an elaborate network of corporate
shells in California, the Caribbean and Europe.”
At the same time, he was also advising Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in
his U.S. investments, and sits on the board of his premier investment
vehicle, Kingdom Holdings.
Prince Alwaleed, 53, is the nephew if King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia.
Forbes magazine ranked him this year as the 19th richest person on the
planet, with a fortune in excess of $23 billion. He owns large chunks
of Citigroup and News Corp., the holding company that controls Fox
News.
He is best known in the United States for his offer to donate $10
million to help rebuild downtown Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks. But
after the prince made a public comment suggesting that U.S. policies
had contributed to causing the attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani handed
back his check.
"I entirely reject that statement," Giuliani said. "There is no moral
equivalent for this (terrorist) act. There is no justification for it.
The people who did it lost any right to ask for justification for it
when they slaughtered 4,000 or 5,000 innocent people.”
Since then, Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Foundation has given millions of
dollars to Muslim charities in the United States, including several
whose leaders have been indicted on terrorism-related charges in
federal courts.
He also has given tens of millions of dollars to Harvard and other
major U.S. universities, to establish programs in Islamic studies.
The casual statement by Percy Sutton to NY1 is the first time anyone
has hinted at a relationship between Obama and the Saudi royal
family.
Although al-Mansour glosses over his ties to the Saudi mega-
billionaire in some of his public talks, he has represented the
Saudi’s interests in the United States, in Britain, and in Africa for
more than a quarter century, according to public records.
He told Newsmax that he has personally introduced Prince Alwaleed to
“51 of the 53 leaders of Africa,” traveling from country to country on
the Saudi prince’s private jet.
He knows virtually every black leader in America, from the business
community, to community activists, to the worlds of politics and
entertainment.
When Michael Jackson was on the ropes in the mid-1990s following a
series of lawsuits by the parents of children accusing him of sexual
abuse, al-Mansour introduced him to Prince Alwaleed, whose Kingdom
Entertainment signed a joint venture with Jackson in 1996.
“Jackson and Alwaleed became pals in 1994, when a mutual friend from
Alwaleed's college days in California arranged a lunch meeting aboard
the prince's yacht in Cannes,” Time magazine reported about the new
partnership in 1997.
The mutual friend was al-Mansour.
“As a black American, I am exceedingly proud at the American people’s
response to Barack Obama’s candidacy,” said CORE’s Niger Innis. “But
to deny that he has long-standing ties to left-wing elements in our
polity is to deny reality. If you want to be president of the United
States, it is not racism if you ask these kind of questions, and he
has to come up with an answer, hopefully the truth.”
Sutton gives no clues as to why al-Mansour would be raising money to
help Obama go to law school. Obama has said during his campaign that
he paid his way through Harvard with student loans.
For Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the Los Angeles-based Brotherhood
Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), these latest revelations about
Obama’s ties to Saudi financiers were an important wake-up call.
“To me, this opened up more questions about Barack Obama and his
relationship to the Muslim world,” Peterson told Newsmax.
“A lot of people are caught up with the emotional aspect of Barack
Obama, the movie star aspect, the false promises that he’s going to
take care of everyone and their Mama.”
But when the full story of Obama’s ties to radical preachers such as
Wright and to black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan comes out, Peterson
believes that Obama’s star power will fade.
“I think there’s more to this story and to Barack Obama than we
realize,” Peterson said. “As all the truth comes out before the
election, I don’t think he has a chance. I can’t see American’s taking
that kind of risk.”
The Obama campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Percy Sutton Reveals Association Between Khalid al-Mansour and Obama
at Age 25
David Moss
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> http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.h
> tml?s=al&promo_code=692E-1
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> I wonder how many AUS and Europeon politicians have similar ties to
> Saudi Barbarian petroeuros or petrodollars?
Its not unusual in US politics though, is it?
There is even an Arab chap your President has nicknamed "Bandar Bush".
Before you ask me to prove it, check out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/07/bae5
Some of our own politicians in Oz do have some rather seedy ties to the
Middle East. Type the phrase "guns for wheat" into a search engine to learn
more.
Yopu would have to go a long way to find a Democrat relationship that
rivals George Bush's special relationship with the House of Saud though.
George is almost sycophantic in his adulation of the Sauds. One has to
wonder why.
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David Moss
Personal opinion only
The Australian Politics Resource
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> "ßDoüg±Ç" <noün...@now.com> wrote in
> news:44_xk.20482$jI5....@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com:
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>> http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.h
>> tml?s=al&promo_code=692E-1
>>
>> I wonder how many AUS and Europeon politicians have similar ties to
>> Saudi Barbarian petroeuros or petrodollars?
>
> Its not unusual in US politics though, is it?
> There is even an Arab chap your President has nicknamed "Bandar Bush".
> Before you ask me to prove it, check out:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/07/bae5
>
> Some of our own politicians in Oz do have some rather seedy ties to the
> Middle East. Type the phrase "guns for wheat" into a search engine to
> learn
> more.
>
> Yopu would have to go a long way to find a Democrat relationship that
> rivals George Bush's special relationship with the House of Saud though.
> George is almost sycophantic in his adulation of the Sauds. One has to
> wonder why.
>
Do you think I like W? Are you insane? I voted for Kerry and I sure as
hell would again.
I never supported the war in Iraq either.
David Moss
@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com:
Nice to see the truth come out.
Why is it that you oppose the war but support the horror your country has
visited on the Iraqis in the aftermath. Is it because most of them are
Muslims?
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Retard, the only ones practicing terrorism in IRaq now are the
muslime pigs themselves -- on infidels and each other.
David Moss
news:depQk.8205$Ws1....@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com:
I read recently about the USA conducting an air strike on a family home
because some members of the household were seen filling in a hole near a
road. US intelligence agents noticed the men filling in the hole through
the cameras on a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle. The UAV followed the
men home and a laser guided bomb was dropped on their residence from a US
warplane. Iraqi police were on the scene within minutes and confirmed an
entire family including women, children and elderly relatives had been
killed in the bombing. No evidence was found either at the house, or at
the hole they were filling in, that indicated they were involved in
terrorism.
I mark that one down as a terrorist bombing by agents of a rogue State.
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THen move there and stop it, keyboard commando.
David Moss
news:bT6Uk.5822$W06....@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com:
>> I read recently about the USA conducting an air strike on a family
>> home because some members of the household were seen filling in a
>> hole near a road. US intelligence agents noticed the men filling in
>> the hole through the cameras on a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle.
>> The UAV followed the men home and a laser guided bomb was dropped on
>> their residence from a US warplane. Iraqi police were on the scene
>> within minutes and confirmed an entire family including women,
>> children and elderly relatives had been killed in the bombing. No
>> evidence was found either at the house, or at the hole they were
>> filling in, that indicated they were involved in terrorism.
>>
>> I mark that one down as a terrorist bombing by agents of a rogue
>> State.
>>
>
> THen move there and stop it, keyboard commando.
No need for me to move to the USA. They are going to stop it soon by
themselves. Pity they started it though.