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| WND : Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter |
| 2006-06-02 |
| Former President Jimmy Carter's center in Atlanta received more than $1 million from the family of Osama bin Laden, according to an investigative report. A brother of the al-Qaida terrorist leader, Bakr M. bin Laden, funneled the money to the Carter Center in Atlanta through the Saudi Bin Laden Group, according to Melanie Morgan, chairman of a group opposing the Georgia Democrat called the Censure Carter Committee. Morgan, a WorldNetDaily columnist, based her claim on papers she acquired from the Carter Center. She points to a report showing Carter met with 10 of Osama bin Laden's brothers early in 2000. The former president and his wife, Rosalyn, followed up the meeting with a breakfast with Bakr bin Laden in September 2000 and secured the first $200,000 towards the more than $1 million that has gone to the Carter Center. Morgan says the connection between Carter and the bin Laden family is exactly the kind of charge leveled by Michael Moore against President Bush in the film "Fahrenheit 9/11." |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #12 I blame every politician that takes Saudi money, not just Carter. Yes, that would clean out most of congress if we shot all of them. Come to think of it, that isn't such a bad idea. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-06-02 17:36 |
| #11 LOL. Well that settles it! Sheesh. |
| Posted by: Jinenter Phealing5856 2006-06-02 17:30 |
| #10 GE4832 is correct. There's no story here. I've plenty of complaints about Bill's time in the White House, but this one isn't a problem. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-06-02 17:23 |
| #9 Huh? Clean or not, associated with OBL or not, why in the world would a Saudi family donate $1 Million to the Carter Library? Nothing closer to home or more constructive? Wake up thinking "What can we do for Jimmah, today?", do they? Rotten fish and sulfur fumaroles smell better. The old saw "Follow the money." is based upon hard-won experience. If you know anything, anything at all about Arabs, then you know this is quid pro quo for something. |
| Posted by: Jinenter Phealing5856 2006-06-02 17:22 |
| #8 No fan of Jimmah, but the folks at Powerline of all places have pointed out it's a big family (50 brothers and sisters) and the money came from the legit construction business side which washed their hands of the nutty uncle they wish was in the attic a long time ago. |
| Posted by: Gleash Ebbinetch4832 2006-06-02 17:08 |
| #7 the white Cynthia McKinney |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-02 16:49 |
| #6 Unlike most people, Carter will be entirely unmotivated to scrub his skin off with an SOS pad after accepting such a donation. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-06-02 15:54 |
| #5 Forgive me for giving up the Panama Canal Zone and forgive me for the incident at the US Embassy in Tehran, and the disaster of Desert One. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-06-02 15:38 |
| #4 "Forgive me for brokering the deal that resulted in a nuclear-armed North Korea; forgive me for brokering the deal between Omar al-Bashar of Sudan and his neighbors Egypt and Uganda, propping him up long enough to commit the Darfur genocide; Forgive me for hosting Robert Mugabe in the white house after I declared the fair elections (in which Mugabe lost) null and void because the two main terrorist groups (one of which was headed by Mugabe) did not participate; Forgive me for terminating our relations with Taiwan and recognizing (after Congress went home for Christmas) Communist China, the most murderous regime in the history of the planet; Forgive me for remaining silent in the face of the genocide performed by Pol Pot in Cambodia; Forgive me for being Arafat's lackey and flying to Saudi Arabia to get the terrorist PLO's funding restored; Forgive me from arbitrarily removing support from the Shah of Iran, under the guise that I needed to protect 'human rights', resulting in the regime being replaced with one of the biggest human rights oppressors in history, Ayatollah Khomeini; Forgive me for going to Cuba and kissing Castro's ass, telling him I believed his account of Cuba's bioterror threat over my own government's; Forgive me for buddying up to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, supporting a regime that commits genocide, for certifying their fraudulent election before the votes were even counted, and helping Zenawi murder of hundreds of peaceful election protestors on college campuses; Forgive me for hugging and kissing Hugo Chavez, and declaring the fraud-riddled Venezuelan elections legitimate; and lately, forgive me for taking a million from the Bin Ladens......yes, forgive me for all these things and a thousand more. Why? Because I build houses for poor people. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-06-02 15:14 |
| #3 They have lots of money. He's a whore. End of story... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-06-02 15:14 |
| #2 It would help people around the world (think: "sanctioning" elections) if this scumball was brought low and discredited. Not that it will be widely reported, of course, but it will get attention in the straight press and the blogosphere. A massive slapdown of this socialist tranzi bitch is long overdue. |
| Posted by: Throluting Thravimble3768 2006-06-02 14:44 |
| #1 Former Secretary of State Amuah hasn't spawned yet, there's still hope. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-02 14:35 |