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Hamas Has Secret Ties with Obama!!!?

Hamas Has Secret Ties with Obama!!!?

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Leading Arab Newspaper Reports Hamas Terrorist Official Claims Secret Relationship with Aides to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Now here’s an article I found today at the IsraelNationalNews.com website that I believe should give us all pause. This troubling article starts off like this... Hamas is claiming close and ongoing ties with America's upcoming Obama Administration, according to a report published Tuesday in the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat. The relationship was kept under wraps until after the U.S. elections so as not to harm Obama’s election prospects. The U.S. has classified Hamas a terrorist organization... The London-based publication interviewed Gaza-based political chief Ahmad Yousuf, advisor to Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas regime in Gaza, which seized power in a bloody coup d’etat in 2007. Yousuf declared that Hamas has been in regular contact with President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers for months... "We were in contact with a number of Obama's aides through the internet, and later met with some of them in Gaza," the Hamas official was quoted as saying, "but they advised us not to come out with any statements, as that may have had a negative effect on his election campaign...

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Hamas Claims Secret Relationship with Obama Aides

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* Wednesday, November 12, 2008 *
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> PajamasMedia.com has the following take on the above story and it goes in part like this... All in all, it doesn’t add up to an organization the United States should be treating as even a potential friend. If that’s what Barack Obama’s advisers, with his blessing, have been up to, it’s not only an end-run around official U.S. policy but also cause for very serious worry...
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Reported Obama-Hamas Contacts Bode Ill

Iraq on Obama

Sunday, November 09, 2008
Reuters.com brings us the following report and it goes in part like this...
...So far, Iraqi politicians have welcomed Obama's victory and made clear that they back his plans for withdrawal... "Obama's presence at the head of the U.S. administration will give new blood, new thoughts, new plans," Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said last week. "We want to be in a fundamental alliance with the United States."... Because of the sharp reduction in violence in Iraq over the last year, Iraqi leaders now see the war as being in its final chapter. The death toll in Iraq fell last month to its lowest level since the U.S. invasion nearly six years ago...
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ANALYSIS-Iraqi leaders welcome Obama but assert themselves

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>>> Bloomberg.com has this report and it goes in part like this...
...The Iraqi national security adviser, Mouafaq Al-Rubaie, has indicated a preference for Obama's 16-month pullout schedule rather than the three-year timeline in the draft negotiated with Bush administration officials... Obama will also face a decision once he takes office on Jan. 20: whether to adhere to his campaign pledge of pulling U.S. combat troops out of Iraq within the 16 months he envisions or to deviate from that timetable as he seeks to build up forces in Afghanistan... The Iraqis and Obama have "got to make some tough choices," said Michael O'Hanlon, an analyst at Washington's Brookings Institution... At stake immediately is whether the U.S. and Iraq will conclude an agreement authorizing an American military presence beyond Dec. 31, when the current United Nations mandate expires. If not, and the UN resolution isn't extended, the 152,000 U.S. troops will withdraw to bases and cease operations, American officials said...
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Iraq Seeks More Talks on U.S. Forces Accord, May Wait for Obama
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>>> Worldfocus.org had the following News Audio posted on their website Nov. 7th...
The future of U.S. military involvement in Iraq may well be at a turning point in the next few months, as both governments try to finalize a new security agreement that governs U.S. forces in Iraq... Given Barack Obama’s election as the next U.S. president, many Iraqis are starting to believe that a withdrawal of American forces will be more likely within a couple of years...
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Obama’s election changes Iraqi attitudes
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>>> Institute for War & Peace Reporting...
Politicians Ponder Obama Strategy on Iraq

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>>> NYTimes.com... The title says it all...
Jihadi Leader Says Radicals Share Obama Victory

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Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell