Posted on 09/23/2008 6:50:49 PM PDT by red flanker
NEW YORK: Chairman Senate Muhammadmian Soomro may be having a friend in White House if Barak Hussain Obama finally succeeds in his presidential bid.
Hardly a few people know about Soomro's link with Obama, which he never discussed it in public. But in private interactions with influential Pakistanis here in the US, Obama disclosed that Soomro's father was his host when he went on a hunting expedition in Jacobabad during his visit to Pakistan in 1981.
While in Karachi, Obama had stayed at the residence of his college friend, Hassan Chandio. In Jacobabad, he was the guest of Soomro family. Muhammadmian Soomro confirmed this information and said it was his first meeting with Obama.
"Yes, he had been our guest and spent three days in Jacobabad," he told The News. Soomro, presently in the US, his second home, said an American friend had told his father, Ahmadmian Soomro, about Obama's arrival in Pakistan and asked him to look after the American. Soomro's father was the deputy speaker of West Pakistan Assembly and had also later served in the Senate.
Ahmadmian Soomro had also served in banking industry and was considered a pioneer in cooperative banking. By the time Soomro's father had hosted Obama, he was only a college student who went to Pakistan on his way from Indonesia where his mother was working with the Ford Foundation's micro credit finance project. Also Obama's mother was a frequent traveller to Pakistan and according to Time Magazine, she had a little bit proficiency in speaking Urdu.
When Soomro was asked about the person who referred Obama to his father, he said he nowadays lived in some country in South America. He was, however, reluctant to disclose his identity, saying he will have to seek permission from that man before giving his profile.
Although, Obama has not disclosed his link with Soomro, he mentioned it during his canvassing campaign while talking to a Pakistani American, Shahid Ahmad Khan, member of Board of Trustees Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

The Θbama campaign told reporters that his trip to Pakistan in 1981 took him to Karachi and Hyderabad which would make it seem he was on the periphery of the country. Now, it seems Θbama went at least 300 miles north of Karachi to Jacobabad (named after Colonial British General who fought in 19th century Afghan campaign). This puts Θbama with 150-200 miles of where Osama bin Laden in Quetta! Isn't this worth a mention in any of his books or speeches? He seems to have been forced to disclose his trip because of news about a passport database breach in the State Dept.
The year 1981 is notable because Reagan was sworn in and the American hostages in Iran were released almost simultaneously. Θbama was in a country that was under martial law until 1985 and was adjacent to two countries in civil turmoil. Yet NOT ONE WORD about his trip until his disclosure in April of 2008.
Interesting!
hunting expedition?
wowowow... what a coincidence, eh? It’s a small world after all!
is anyone else just the slightest bit worried that a possible future President has long standing personla undisclosed ties with the Head politician of Pakistan.
Karachi is the home of the Taliban, today. And radicals always.
Yeah, I wondered about that too. Someone needs to ask him if he has ever been hunting.
Also, did ya notice that they used Obama’s middle name in the article?....must be a reason.
Well, now we have some names to research. Let’s get on it! We have loads of work to do.
Muhammed Hasan Chandio is the guy he stayed with. I found this so far:
http://www.pakistanlink.com/Community/2008/Apr08/18/07.HTM
“Chandio is now a self-employed financial consultant, living in Armonk in Westchester county, New York. According to The Times, he has donated the maximum, $2,300, to Obama’s primary campaign and an additional $309 for the general elections.”
Why isn’t the MSM looking into this trip that Barack Obama made to Pakistan during his Occidental years?? How was it that HE could enter a country that AMERICANS were banned from visiting at the time?? Did he have an Indonesian passport that would have allowed him to travel there? How did he have the money to travel there?? How is that he was hosted in Pakistan by Muhammadian Mian Soomro who was told to “watch over him” by an un-named individual living in South America today? Why is the trip not mentioned in his books?? Why a sudden transfer to Columbia University after that trip and why are his Columbia years a secret??
Here is the BEST question....Why is the MSM ignoring this story and focusing instead on Gov.Sarah Palin’s every word and deed in her life???? Someone had better do some hard questioning of Barack Obama (or whatever other names he has had....) SHAME ON THE MEDIA!!!!!!! We need to know these answers NOW!!
Barrack Obama is like a Muslim Zelig.
I don’t understand the linking in the article between Obama’s 1981 trip and Osama bin Laden being in Pakistan now. Was Osama in Pakistan in 1981?
Guess I am behind. Atlas has had this for quite some time.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/09/obamas-paki-con.html
Would like to see disclosure of FBI files about this- such as passport he used and name he traveled under.
Craig Livingstone- where are you??
OCTOBER SURPRISE will be served up very soon. The beginning of the end of Obama’s run is coming!
What passpoet did he travel on?
What name was on that passport?
Can you say Manchurian Canidate?
Stay tuned to as the World Churns or Do you smell Obama’s bacan cooking.
Okay, this NEEDS to be investigated. Obama has questioned everything sarah has ever done....these are serious questions.
“The Obama campaign says Obama was in Pakistan for about three weeks, staying with his friend’s family in Karachi and also visiting Hyderabad in Southern India. NOW, It all sounds very innocent, a college trip to Pakistan. Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and ruled of martial law. Millions of Afghan refugees were living in Pakistan, while the Afghan Mujahedeen operated from bases inside Pakistan in their war with the Soviets. One of the leaders that based his operation in Quetta, Pakistan was Usama Bin Laden (The Sheik). Pakistan was on the banned travel list for US Citizens at the time and all non-Muslim visitors were not welcome unless sponsored by their embassy for official business. There would be only a few reasons a young Westerner of the Muslim faith would travel to Pakistan in 1981: To Participate in Jihad, which is the duty of every True Believer. For religious education in a Wahabbi sect, Saudi funded, Madrassa. In order to purchase drugs from the drug marketplace. Pakistan was not a tourist stop nor the place to hang out with someone’s family in 1981.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/09/obamas-paki-con.html
What years would those be?? Was Pakistan off limits to persons with an American passport during that time?
There ya go! These are questions that MUST be answered. Obama has brought it up, he has to answer them.
Let’s send this to O’Reilly and everyone else, until someone investigates it.
see post 15.
I think my question in #16 was answered in tuckrdout’s post immediately above mine. I’ve been following threads that mentioned Obama’s trip to Pakistan, but didn’t see the big issue with it. Now I understand.
Interesting. Stay on this
And Obama claims the only hunting he did in his entire life was spear fishing as a boy in Hawaii.
a trojan horse.......we must destroy it outside the walls of our city
Here is another interesting tidbit:
Sohale Siddiqi is identified as “Sadik” in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, and is described as “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan, and Obama’s roommate when he attended Columbia University. Yet,Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia and became an illegal having over stayed his tourist visa.
Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now lives in Seattle working for a community theater.
Never forget that Rezko is from Syria.
Why is Obama always linked to political highly placed rich Muslims, if he is an American Christian?
Excerpt from review of book "Warrior from Mecca":
This particular book discusses the gradual involvement of Usama Bin Laden in the Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union. Bin Laden's odyssey began 17 days after the Soviet invasion on Christmas Day 1979. This places Bin Laden's first foray seeking out what he could do for the jihad in mid-January 1980; he was 21 years old. His first actions were not in Afghanistan but in Pakistan, where he donated $3 million to Pakistani Islamist organization Jamiat-e-Islami (The Islamic Group) to be distributed to Afghan mujahideen (jihadists, but at the time, during the Cold War, American officials would have considered them freedom fighters). Between 1980 and 1983, Bin Laden made frequent trips between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, looking for ways to contribute directly to Afghan fighters. In 1983, he arrived in the Pakistan frontier town of Peshawar on the Afghan border and donated $5 million to Afghan mujahideen groups. During this period he invested another $5 million to create a pipeline for young Arabs to volunteer for the Soviet-Afghan War.
Bump and bookmark
hmmmmm...
Yes.
“While American college students were seeking the company of co-eds on Florida beaches, Obama was enjoying the company of wealthy Pakistanis. Another of Obamas hosts in Pakistan was Muhammadian Mian Soomro, Obamas senior by about 11 years, son of a Pakistani politician and himself a politician, who became interim President of Pakistan when Pervez Musharraf resigned in August of 2008. Soomro has said that someone personally requested that he watch over Barack Obama, but will not name that individual (who today allegedly lives in South America).
Somewhere along the line (not while in Pakistan), Obama also became acquainted with Khalid Al-Mansour, senior advisor to Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. In addition to being a financial advisor to the Saudi royal family, Al-Mansour represents OPEC which certainly has a vested interest in a continuance of prohibitions against drilling in Alaskas ANWR preserves and off Americas continental shelf.
One has to assume the young Obamas trip to Pakistan may have been funded by one or more of these wealthy acquaintances, inasmuch as there seems never to have been any mention of actual jobs held by Obama. (After leaving Los Angeles, he says he arrived in New York almost penniless, spending his first night sleeping on the street.) And if he did dishes in the school cafeteria, it is unlikely such a job paid enough to cover the cost of a three week stay half-way around the world. One question that begs an answer is, What did Obama offer his benefactors in exchange for their financial support?
It should also be noted that Al-Mansour contacted civil rights activist (and attorney for Malcolm X) Percy Sutton, asking Sutton to write a letter of recommendation to help get Obama into Harvard Law School. Clearly wheels were spinning, but how and why is unclear. Well-connected Muslims certainly had something in mind for Barack Obama.
This info is out there folks, we have to make sure that it is read. Print it up on your home computer and put it on windsheilds if you have to! But, get the truth out! Travel to swing states and knock on doors. Get it out!
Yes indeed he was.
this is scary!
Obama years....
Occidental College 1979-1981
Columbia “the lost years” 1981-1983
Also, can we get this in BREAKING? This article needs MAJOR attention.
I am speechless!
But heres what Daily Musings has to say about the situation in Pakistan in 1981. http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/on-obamas-1981-trip-to-pakistan/
Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and ruled of martial law. Millions of Afghan refugees were living in Pakistan, while the Afghan Mujahedeen operated from bases inside Pakistan in their war with the Soviets. One of the leaders that based his operation in Quetta, Pakistan was Usama Bin Laden (The Sheik).
Pakistan was on the banned travel list for US Citizens at the time and all non-Muslim visitors were not welcome unless sponsored by their embassy for official business.
The would be only a few reasons a young Westerner of the Muslim faith would travel to Pakistan in 1981:
To Participate in Jihad, which is the duty of every True Believer.
For religious education in a Wahabbi sect, Saudi funded, Madrassa.
In order to purchase drugs from the drug marketplace.
Pakistan was not a tourist stop nor the place to hang out with someones family in 1981.
President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski visiting ‘his boy’, Osama Bin Laden, in training with the Pakistan Army, 1981.Photo originally scanned from the New York Village Voice. Photo credited to the Sygma/Corbis Agency, Paris.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilsnod/68772733/
About Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Classes began this week for the spring semester at Columbia University, and about 300 students crammed into Room A of the Law School to hear Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski. Professor Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, teaches political science at Columbia.
January 23, 1985
That would be a good reason for Obambi to go to Pak., at that time in his life.
Did Barack have any job between graduation and April,1992?
Is the April, 1992 date accurate?
The mother of American Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, Mrs. Ann Dunham lived in Pakistan for five years. During this time, Barack Obama also visited his mother and stayed for a few month. Mrs. Ann Dunham was hired as a consultant by the Asian Development Bank for Pakistan Agricultural Development Banks Gujranwalla Agricultural Development Program. This program began in 1987 and ended in 1992.source
Obama’s Paki Connection
From Slim guy: Who was Senator Obamas host in Pakistan? The Friday Times broke this story in early March and revealed the host to be none other than Mian Muhammadian Soomro, the caretaker prime minister.
Obama’s background just gets curiouser and curiouser. I am still stumped as to how Dr. Al-Mansour came to mentor Barack Hussein Obama before he attended Harvard. How did Obama come to know Dr. Khalid al Mansour, Senior Advisor, HRH Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal, and where did Obama get the money for his long strange trip? For a “poor, starving, student” Obama sure had/has a collection of rich, wealthy and politically connected muslims all over the world.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/09/obamas-paki-con.html
Osama was not in Pakistan in 1981. What is your point?
Where was he then?
Barry is that you?
Mansour was a Black Panther and the Ayres gang may well have introduced him.
Looks as though he was in and out. I thought he was in Afganistan. But Osama was fighting the Soviets so Zero will probably claim he was working for the CIA helping defeat the Commies. And the Treason Media will broadcast it.

From some articles, it seems Θbama's mother stayed several years in the Hilton International Hotel (now known as Avari Hotel) in Lahore. Looks like a very high class hotel.
Obama did his best to cover his tracks in Indonesia during the Summer of 2007.
For those Pakistani moose, donchaknow.
Oddly enough, the last time I heard mention of a hunting expedition in Pakistan, it was Aafia Siddiqui's estranged husband Dr. Mohammed Amjad Khan claiming he needed the night-vision goggles, military manuals and body armor they bought... for a huntng trip.
Siddiqui and her husband were by now being watched by the FBI for having used a debit card to buy night-vision goggles, body armour, and military manuals from American websites, and for donating to charities the FBI watches closely. When questioned, Khan told authorities he had purchased the military items for big-game hunting in Pakistan, saying goggles and armour werent available there.They must have some fierce critters if you need body armor... you don't even need that to hunt bear in Alaska.
Hopefully Obama was looking for smaller game.
After graduating, he took an analyst job at Business International Corp. to pay off his loans while looking for a grass-roots organizing job. He had an office and a secretary but it bothered him to be the only black executive, he wrote, so he quit. Soon after, Obama lit out for a $13,000-a-year job as a community organizer in Chicago - where his destiny awaited.--------- "Obama's quiet years in N.Y.C.," HELEN KENNEDY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER, Daily News ^ | 1/14/07 | Posted on 01/14/2007 8:29:55 AM PST by mdittmar
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