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Report: Barack Obama's Al Qaida Initiative Began Months Before His Election

2009-01-29

You tell me -
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama was working with Arab intermediaries to establish an unofficial dialogue with Al Qaida long before his election as the 44th U.S. president, according to a report in the upcoming weekly edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com.

Al Qaida has offered what has been described as a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to the report.

Only they didn't use the word, 'truce' ...

Obama has deemed the U.S. reconciliation with the Muslim world, including Iran, as his main foreign policy goal, sources quoted in the report said. The president has been aided by several Persian Gulf Arab Muslims with ties to Al Qaida's leadership in Pakistan, they said.

On his first day in office, Obama ordered the shutdown of the U.S. Navy prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which where 245 suspected Al Qaida members are detained.

Subsequently, in his first television interview as president, with the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya satellite channel on Jan. 26, Obama spoke about his own ties to the Muslim world: "Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect," Obama said. "I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries."

That would be news to many since the MSM didn't bother to tell us about it during the election.

"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy -- we sometimes make mistakes -- we have not been perfect," Obama said.

That's irrelevant. The issue isn't perfect: the issue is what type of life to lead. Al-Qaeda has chosen war, and they aren't going to be mollified by smooth words.

The two presidential actions have already prompted calls for reconciliation by a range of leading Muslims. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi called on the United States to launch a dialogue with Al Qaida chief Osama Bin Laden while the Al Qaida-aligned Gamiat Islamiya urged an immediate four-month ceasefire.

Only they didn't use the word, 'ceasefire' ...

At this point, according to the report, Al Qaida appears divided over Obama.

"Addressing the Islamic world, Obama said we are in need of a new direction," a statement by Gamiat leaders said. "So he is calling for adopting a new approach that differs to the blocked and irrational path that [former U.S. President George] Bush followed."

The report also says Obama's initiative has been endorsed by much of the U.S. intelligence community.

"The United States has imposed attrition on Al Qaida, disrupting its command, control and communications and isolating it," George Friedman, a leading U.S. strategist and director of Stratfor, said in a Stratfor.com report. "To avoid penetration by hostile intelligence services, Al Qaida has not recruited new cadres for its primary unit. This makes it very difficult to develop intelligence on Al Qaida, but it also makes it impossible for Al Qaida to replace its losses."

That's an endorsement?

Still, Saudi Arabia' royalty fears any reconciliation between Al Qaida and the United States. The sources said Saudi King Abdullah worries that Obama's effort would legitimize Al Qaida and bolster its status in the Gulf Arab kingdom.

Posted by:lftbhndagn

#18 "The United States has imposed attrition on Al Qaida, disrupting its command, control and communications and isolating it," George Friedman, a leading U.S. strategist and director of Stratfor, said in a Stratfor.com report. "To avoid penetration by hostile intelligence services, Al Qaida has not recruited new cadres for its primary unit. This makes it very difficult to develop intelligence on Al Qaida, but it also makes it impossible for Al Qaida to replace its losses."

If Mr. Friedman is correct and we have AQ up against the ropes, why in heaven's name would we now seek a truce? These people are not interested in honest negotiation or compromise. This is only kicking the can down the road. So sad.

Posted by: Crusomp and Tenille8230 2009-01-29 23:58

#17 Very well, Snakes; we call him an imposter, a mole, and a snake in the grass.

Posted by: mom (who is more than usually cranky today) 2009-01-29 21:59

#16 Ex-lib, and JFM -- you can't argue that Obama isn't an American citizen AND that he's a traitor. If he isn't a American citizen, then by definition he can't have committed treason against America. By calling him a traitor, you're accepting his citizenship.

Posted by: Snakes Shaving1019 2009-01-29 20:40

#15 People really should have taken the fact that Obama REFUSED to produce an authentic US birth certificate, REFUSED to produce his recent (and previous) passports, and REFUSED to produce his college records ALOT MORE SERIOUSLY. Instead, via the Saul Alinsky "vision" anyone questioning these things was passed off as a nutjob. Without a doubt the production of those documents would have been quite revealing. Too late now . . . Obama the Traitor is in command.

Posted by: ex-lib 2009-01-29 12:29

#14 Obama was on foreign relations committee, does it matter?

Spot on Clineth Gonque1423. Not that Obama actually did anything in that committee but his buddy Senator Feingold has been dancing with the Algerians for years. Its not a huge leap to assume the Arabs read the tea leaves and in traditional fashion played both sides of the fence.

Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-01-29 11:41

#13 But the Repubs do have lots of leverage now.

Posted by: Danielle 2009-01-29 11:22

#12 18 U.S.C. Section 953

953. Private correspondence with foreign governments

I have some questions about this?

1) Is Al-Qaida a foreign govt? I dont believe so.
2) Obama was on foreign relations committee, does it matter?
3) Is brokering peace talks as a senator through intermediaries treason?

Does it really hold up?

Posted by: Clineth Gonque1423 2009-01-29 11:16

#11 I'm afraid you're right JFM.

Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-29 09:53

#10 For the same reason that he didn't pursue the doubts about Obama's birthplace or his doubious connections: because given MSM-made BUSH's impopularity it would have been presnted as he using dirty tricks to tild the election. And given that Obama was sort-of Black it would have been presented as a trick to keep Blacks down. In other words he had hhis hands tied. All he could do was hope McCain would win. Unfortunalitely McCain did only one thing well in his whole campaign and was laughable for about everything else (eg when he told he would skip the debate and ended assisting).

Posted by: JFM 2009-01-29 09:51

#9 Rantburg warned of this months ago, as it has this recent business with Hamas and Zimbabwe. US State,the Agency, and POTUS HAD to know this was going on. Why did "W" not BUST him and his little ballet dancer when he had the chance?

"One President at a Time."
President-elect Barak Obama

Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-29 09:14

#8 Uh, never mind. I guess I misread. It says Al Qaeda offered the truce, not BHO.

Posted by: Cynicism Inc 2009-01-29 08:56

#7 Usually you offer a truce when you are losing, not when you are winning. Typical bass-ackwards lefty logic. (If the story is true.)

Posted by: Cynicism Inc 2009-01-29 08:53

#6 The seems fairly obvious BS.

If we are withdrawing from Afghanistan, why would we be sending more troops there.

Posted by: mhw 2009-01-29 07:38

#5 Months before the Madrid bombings while officially supporting Azanr policy of zero contacts with ETA and political isolation of its supporters, Zapatero was having vontacts with ETA. Then came the Madrid bombings and in addition of handling Al Quaida a major political victory ("see how weak are the Crusaders and how easy it is to make them flee"), he also made major concessions to ETA.

Posted by: JFM 2009-01-29 04:32

#4 All democrats are traitors. The fact it's treason has never stopped them before.

Of course, if they were all convicted of their crimes and received their full and just punishment, unemployment wouldn't be an issue anymore.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2009-01-29 02:09

#3 This story shoud get a huge kudos to Kermit -

Also - Kermit states -

If the above report is true he is GUILTY of treason.

18 U.S.C. Section 953

953. Private correspondence with foreign governments

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

Posted by: lftbhndagn 2009-01-29 01:42

#2 Who is he to surrender me?

Posted by: newc 2009-01-29 01:04

#1 and the sad part is that even if this had come out in October, almost all the yutz's that voted for him still would have

Posted by: Abu do you love 2009-01-29 00:52

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