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| Hamas Claims to Have Been Entertaining Obama Emissaries |
| 2008-11-11 |
| The Arab daily Al-Hayat on Tuesday quoted a senior Hamas official as saying that United States President-elect Barack Obama's advisors met with members of the Palestinian militant group before the U.S. presidential election. Ahmed Yusuf, a political advisor to Hamas' Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, reportedly told the London-based paper that, "The connection was made via email and after that we met with them in Gaza." Al-Hayat reported that Yusuf also said the relations were maintained after Obama's electoral victory last Tuesday. He said the president-elect's advisors requested that the relations be kept secret so as not to aid his rival, Senator John McCain. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #6 IIRC, FOX NEWS > ISLAMISTS [Osama BIn Laden?] MAY BE PLANNING FOR NEW ATTACK(S) ON USA "BIGGER" THAN 9-11. Just sayin'. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-11-11 19:17 |
| #5 C'mon, eltoroverde, you know The One doesn't have to abide by US laws. He's a DEMOCRAT, for crying out loud. Anything goes for Democrats. Just look at all the voter fraud they've committed over the last 20 years, and still engage in. (May all guilty parties rot in Hell for 10 eons, THEN let the Devil get mean with them.) |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-11-11 15:21 |
| #4 Aren't there laws to prevent this kind of stuff from happening? I mean it sounds like his aides were conducting foreign policy to a certain degree without the approval and authority of the POTUS. What's up with that? |
| Posted by: eltoroverde 2008-11-11 11:16 |
| #3 Any chance of this beeing played up by the network news? During the campaign the media downplayed and ridiculed McCain's accusations that Obama's folks were talking with Hamas. Seems they did more than just talk. The only reference of CBS news wesite, buried in another story about a chat w/ the Russians: On another international matter, Obama's office had little to say in response to a statement by Khaled Mashaal, leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, that he is ready to talk to Obama "with an open mind." The exiled militant leader told Sky News from Damascus, Syria, that the election of an American president with African roots is "a big change." McDonough said, "President-elect Obama said throughout the campaign that he will only talk with Hamas if it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel's right to exist, and agrees to abide by past agreements." That's one campaign promise already broke to hell. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-11 08:00 |
| #2 Entertaining, like, you mean, they offered them goats or young boys? Gee. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-11-11 07:53 |
| #1 Well far be it from the media to expose top secret plans. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-11 07:43 |