Help debunking Anti-Obama smear please?

[Ian David]

I won't dignify it by repeating it.

I'll only post the name of the person it involves: Ayham al-Samurai

Thanks!

[blondeatlast]

1. Seems to me a seach leads straight to RW sites.

I won't go farther, but I think the mods should vette these sites first.

[Ian David]

3. Please don't link to the sites it originates from: Only to material debuning it. Thanks! n/t

[blondeatlast]

7. I think I owe you an apology.

I don't quite get it, but there's a lot of coordination and virtually no m$m reportage.

[Ian David]

9. No apology necessary. Think I debunked it myself. He works for US. n/t

[jobycom]

2. LOL!

I am a Samurai! :rofl:

[Ian David]

4. OMG! It's a joke name! Like Bigus Dickus! They just made this shit up!!??!! But maybe not...

June 26, 2005
US 'in talks with Iraq with Iraq rebels'
Insurgents reveal secret face-to-face meetings

<snip>

According to both Iraqi sources, preparations for this month’s meetings were supervised by Ayham al-Samurai, a Sunni Muslim and former exile who lived in America for 20 years. He returned to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become electricity minister in the interim government.

One of his main challenges was to persuade both sides that they could meet without being ambushed. Both eventually provided pledges that no hostile acts would be attempted.

The American contingent is said to have arrived in a convoy of four armoured Humvee vehicles and at least two armoured personnel carriers. The military escort remained outside the compound while the four US negotiators were greeted by tribal sheikhs who had agreed to host the meeting.

More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article537574.ece

It looks like he is working for US in the job that WE gave him as Electricity Minister.

[jobycom]

10. Well, Ayham al-Musd!

It LOOKED like a joke name! :rofl:

[Ian David]

12. Should the headline be, "Bush Installs Insurgent as Iraqi Electricity Minister"??? n/t

[eleny]

15. DUzy!

[ieoeja]

5. Do you have an Opensecrets link to the donation?

I tried searching http://www.opensecrets.org for contributions by this man and did not find anything.

[Ian David]

8. OpenSecrets is incredibly incomplete. Most of my own donations aren't even listed. n/t

[melody]

6. He has been in the US for twenty years and donated some money to Obama supposedly

Oh, yeah, he's somebody to be scared of. :eyes: Dontcha love these morons? They don't want to come out and admit they don't want to vote for a black man, so ...

The sites reporting this are all right-wing fronts. It's also reported on David Icke's site (along with the "Obama is a Muslim" "smear"). Icke is a man whose intellectual prowess allows him to believe that the world is run by a gangland tribe of warlord reptiles from outer space. No, I am not joking.

[blogslut]

11. Don't forget

If you see this crap, forward it to the Obama Campaign:

[e-mail]

[Ian David]

13. Thanks! I will! n/t

[jobycom]

14. They are funny people. It doesn't bother them that Bush knew Usama's brother or J W Hinckley

but let someone with a Muslim name have the loosest of connections to Obama, and they scream "CONSPIRACY!"

Oh well, we weren't going to get their votes, anyway. :rofl: