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Re:RICH LOWRY: Obama's speechflawed at core 2 Months, 1 Week ago
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StupidReader, the comedienne, speaks. What a great country this is.
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Re:RICH LOWRY: Obama's speechflawed at core 2 Months, 1 Week ago
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Obama's friend and long-time business associate indicted Tony Rezko is bailed out. Ali M. Baghdadi is on the list of people who helped bail him out.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Follow the Money: Obama, Rezko and Ali Baghdadi (2 Updates)
On April 26, 2008, the Chicago Sun-Times published a list of people who helped to bail indicted political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko out of jail a week ago. On that list are Ali M. Baghdadi and Darlene Bagdadi, who put up a "two-story retail building in Chicago" as surety.
In a March 23, 2008, World Net Daily article, Aaron Klein wrote about the open letter to Oprah published in Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)'s Trinity United Church of Christ church bulletin. The letter was published on the "Pastor's Page" of Sen. Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, by an activist named Ali M. Baghdadi. Originally printed March 6, 2007, in the Palestine Times, a "pro-Palestinian newspaper published in London", Ali M. Baghdadi "labels Israel an 'apartheid' regime and claims the Jewish state worked on an 'ethnic bomb' that kills 'blacks and Arabs'," Klein wrote.
Who would have guessed that the same Ali M. Baghdadi who published the Arab Journal, and who wrote the vile letter published by Sen. Obama's anti-American, hate-spouting pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would turn out to be a good friend to Tony Rezko, currently on trial in federal court for corruption?
Who would have guessed that the same Palestinian-American Ali M. Baghdadi, who accompanied Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to Mali in 1997, and served as his Middle East advisor, was only one-degree of separation from Sen. Obama?
Update #1: On April 18, 2008, Ali M. Baghdadi appeared at the federal court to state that he would be willing to post his home as collateral towards Tony Rezko's bond. Baghdadi said "he has known Rezko for 20 years through their work with Arab charities."
Update #2: The following is according to Ali M. Baghdadi's bio that followed his article published June 10, 2007, by the TUCC (page 11):
Ali Baghdadi, an Arab-American activist, writer, columnist; worked with several African-American groups on civil and human rights issues since the mid sixties; acted as a Middle East advisor to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the founder of the Nation of Islam, as well as Minister Louis Farrakhan; visited more than 80 countries throughout the world and met with many of their leaders, including Mandela, Castro, Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad, Qathafi, Abdallah ibn Abdel-Aziz, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khamenei, among many others.
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Re:RICH LOWRY: Obama's speechflawed at core 2 Months, 1 Week ago
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Will any of these guys be brought to justice? Another guy, Aiham Alsammarae, who is wanted by Interpol, bails indicted Rezko out.
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Follow the Money: Alsammarae helped post Rezko bail (Updated)
Aiham Alsammarae—who is wanted by Interpol for the theft of $650 million of Iraqi reconstruction funds, and who is a former classmate and business partner to indicted political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko—"posted three properties [including his Oak Brook home] with a combined equity of nearly $2.8 million" to help Rezko be "released to home confinement on more than $8.5 million bail," the Chicago Tribune reported April 26, 2008.
As recently as April 13, 2008, in a months-old interview with Steve Croft, shown on CBS's 60 Minutes, the Interpol warrant was brought to Alsammarae's attention:
"I'm sitting here looking at a wanted poster from Interpol for Aiham Alsammarae, born 1951, Baghdad. Height: 1.9 meter, 75 inches, weight: 200 pounds,. This looks very much like you," Kroft said.
"Well it is me, but it is wrong because it is issued by Iraqi government based on false information," Alsammarae replied.
"You're not expecting the U.S. marshals to come in here and arrest you some day and send you off to Iraq to stand trial?" Kroft asked.
"Well, I will be so surprised if that happen in the States. Did I do anything wrong in United States? No. Did I pay my taxes, every penny, every year? Yes," he replied.
"Well, you're an international fugitive," Kroft remarked.
"The world is full of innocent victims. I am innocent and I will prove it," he vowed.
However, as Croft pointed out, Alsammarae's name "surfaced" in connection with Rezko's federal corruption trial:
In a closed-door session, federal prosecutors reportedly accused Rezko of bribing Alsammarae in order to obtain an Iraqi electricity contract. Alsammarae denies the charges and says he's doing everything possible to clear his name, short of going back to Baghdad where he says he will be killed, perhaps by Iraqis who are only getting a few hours of electricity every day, despite billions of dollars of investment from the U.S. and Iraqi governments.
It is simply amazing that Alsammarae came forward to provide Rezko with a $2.8 million surety for his release after the feds, during that March 5, 2008, closed-door session, "outright accused" Rezko of offering Alsammarae a $1.5 million bribe "to land" the Chamchamal power plant in Iraq contract.
It is simply amazing that Alsammarae, who is known by the feds to be an "international fugitive" wanted by Interpol, was not arrested. Why was he not?
Update: The Chicago Sun-Times adds April 26, 2008, that the Interpol warrant for Alsammarae "remains active, but U.S. authorities have shown no interest in arresting him" and that the State Department "declined to comment" why he had not yet been arrested. It also informed that Alsammarae could not be reached, which is consistent with other attempts over the past weeks.
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Re:RICH LOWRY: Obama's speechflawed at core 2 Months, 1 Week ago
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I came across this little tidbit recently. A fairy tale you say? Obama-Rezko Chicago politics-as-usual in the White House is more like your worst nightmare. That Obama is only a few short years removed from taking orders in Springfield, in the Illinois State Senate, and you know how clean Illinois politics is.
So as we wait for Obama to transform our politics, let's hold our breath and see who turns purple first. That'll give me time to apologize to Sen. Clinton about that "white witch" crack over the weekend.
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But this fairy tale doesn't begin in Kenya or Hawaii or Kansas or at Harvard. Obama's political fairy tale really begins in Chicago.
That's where Obama's own real estate fairy loved to play in Illinois Democratic - and Republican - politics.
Chicago is not really an enchanted land, unless you've got clout at City Hall, and then you can be white guys with mob connections and drink with Mayor Richard Daley at Como Inn at Christmas parties, and receive $100 million in city affirmative action contracts. And no Democrat - not even our national change-agent Barack Obama - would dare demand answers.
Other Chicago fairy tales include the gangbanger who runs the corrupt Hired Truck program out of City Hall, and the 11th Ward hacks who broke federal law to create massive patronage armies of city workers - improperly hired and promoted, for the express purpose of controlling local elections.
Obama endorsed the mayor for re-election, and other machine hacks, including Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, a Daley puppet and political disaster. This upset some local reformers.
His supporters say he had to play ball with the Daley machine to survive. And he's promised Tribune readers that he'd keep U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald in Chicago fighting political corruption. This threatens Daley and the state's Republican combine masters, but Obama may indeed do most for change by maintaining the status quo.
One fairy tale that touches close to home for Obama (literally, Obama's home) is the story of his real estate fairy, the indicted fixer Tony Rezko, who helped the Obamas buy their dream house.
Rezko is scheduled to stand trial in late February in Chicago, on federal political corruption charges that worry Democrats and Republicans. His lawyers on Tuesday tried to stall the trial - saying there was too much evidence to process - but they failed.
Hillary did better than expected in New Hampshire, but to win she'll still have to rip Barack's fairy tale to shreds. And the Clintons know how to do that.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass_09jan09,0,1629344.column?coll=chi_home_ugcHey, operation chaos is nothing compared to these Obama-Rezko politics-as-usual shenanigans. Before this campaign is over no stone will be left unturned. And, the Obama fairy tale will be over. |
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Last Edit: 2008/04/26 19:05 By SilentReader.
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Re:RICH LOWRY: Obama's speechflawed at core 2 Months, 1 Week ago
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protest makes cowards of men."
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Re:RICH LOWRY: Obama's speech 2 Months, 1 Week ago
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SilentReader wrote:I came across this little tidbit recently. A fairy tale you say?More like a another tall tale told by a fairy, I'd say. 
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