Likely Obama Appointee Had Bin Laden Ties

thedailybeast.com ^ | Feb. 24, 2009 | Ashley Rindsberg

[Free ThinkerNY]

Charles Freeman, Obama’s reported pick for chairman of the National Intelligence Council, talked business with the Bin Laden family even after September 11.

Amid the criticism that has already emerged about President Obama's reported pick for the powerful position of chairman of the National Intelligence Council, there is a yet unmentioned problem that is likely cause even bigger troubles: He had business ties to the bin Laden family after 9/11.

Charles “Chas” Freeman, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, had business connections with the bin Laden family and their Saudi Binladin Group, a multi-billion dollar construction conglomerate founded by the father of Osama bin Laden. As chairman of Projects International, Inc., a company that develops international business deals, Mr. Freeman asserted in an interview with the Associated Press less than a month after September 11 that he was still “discussing proposals with the Bin Laden Group—and that won't change.”

In the same interview, Freeman also contested the notion that international companies who had business with the bin Laden family should be “running for public relations cover”, noting that bin Laden was still “a very honored name in the kingdom [of Saudi Arabia]”, despite its family tie to the Al-Qaeda leader. (Freeman wasn’t immediately available for comment.)

Mr. Freeman frequently maintained that the larger bin Laden family was closely aligned with American interests. Contrary to the notion that the family was still supporting and even funding Osama bin Laden, the bin Laden family and its business conglomerate were part of the “establishment that Osama's trying to overthrow,” as Mr. Freeman told The Wall Street Journal in a separate interview less than two weeks after September 11.

[A. Morgan]

Obama Bin Lyin’

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well he "could be right"

and he "could be wrong"

He ought to have severe questioning....on TV ...where all the Folks could hear it....

[chuck_the_tv_out]

ok, so it’s actually war then. obama vs the US.

[txnativegop]

Are we really surprised by this?

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON
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From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008:
"By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'We’re revolutionary Communists.'

He got off on the group’s multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.

Ideal Bombing Weather:
'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)

Article: Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO BOMB FORT DIX

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events
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2007 Fort Dix attack plot

A group of six radical Islamist[1] men, allegedly plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, United States, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2007. They were subsequently charged with planning an attack against U.S. soldiers. The alleged aim of the six men was said to be to "kill as many soldiers as possible".[2] Their trial began on October 20, 2008. [3]

Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said the defendants were inspired by jihad saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dix_plot
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

[GeronL]

he is also rabidly anti-Israel

[ETL]

Are we really surprised by this?

It's not about 'surprising' anyone, it's about getting everything they do out in the open, and keeping the pressure on them so they don't damage the country too much before saneness (hopefully) sets in again and we elect a pro-American president.

[cvq3842]

Flame if you want, but my understanding is that the rest of the family consists of “respected Saudi businessmen.” Are they insympathy with their relative? Possibly. Could there be people on botrh sides of the aisle who have worked with the family? I would guess so.

I’m just saying people need to be careful moving forward on this.

And i could be wrong.

[LucyT]

This is not a coincident.

Likely Obama Appointee Had Bin Laden Ties

Charles Freeman, Obama’s reported pick for chairman of the National Intelligence Council, talked business with the Bin Laden family even after September 11.

Amid the criticism that has already emerged about President Obama's reported pick for the powerful position of chairman of the National Intelligence Council, there is a yet unmentioned problem that is likely cause even bigger troubles: He had business ties to the bin Laden family after 9/11.

[Frantzie]

Obama is the Saudi’s boy. They paid for his schooling.

[txnativegop]

Simply having to say “we elect a pro-American President” says it all, doesn’t it?

[null and void]

I'm shocked. not!

[null and void]

ok, so it’s actually war then. obama vs the US.

Yes. You didn't know?

[azishot]

Thanks, LucyT.

He doesn’t have to look too far to find “unsavory” characters. I’m sure his blackberry is full of them.

[ichabod1]

So was W. They pw3n us.

[r9etb]

Osama bin Laden apparently has several hundred cousins, nieces, uncles, and aunts. This is almost certainly a non-issue.

Here, for example, is his niece, Wafa bin Laden:

One cannot assign guilt to her, despite her last name.

[IrishPennant]

Thanks, LucyT....

companies who had business with the bin Laden family should be “running for public relations cover”

This could be a very bad (Good for us) PR move on Zer0's fault. I agree with those on this thread who feel the Bin Laden family are respected businessmen, but the 6 and 11pm news zombies really have no idea.

Be that as it may, we should continue to push the audacity of appointing someone with such ties and let America decide.

[little jeremiah]

Doing business talks or deals with Bin Laden family and a distant relative such as the young lady who is hated for her lifestyle are not the same.

Of course, you know this already.