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I lived on the 0bola research threads for years, don’t remember all of what I read or even a fraction, but stuff does job my memory. FMD was a communist, went to HI before statehood, part of a push to get non-citizen commies there before statehood. He worked in a printing shop, could have been easy to create documents of one kind or another. Later on ran some kind of shop or other, apparently dealing drugs too. He was certainly a loathesome creature, originally from Chicago, which was a hub of commies in the 1930s-40s, I’m sure there were connections to other people in Chicago but I am no expert. Of coures the Ayers family lived there.

Thanks CDY for the name Khalid, that was on the tip of my mind, first name begins with R, Rasheed or something? I seem to think it was a black moslem.

Lemme look.

Could it be this Khalid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Khalidi

Returning to America, Khalidi spent two years teaching at Columbia University before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1987, where he spent eight years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago.[12] During the Gulf War, while teaching at Chicago, Khalidi emerged “as one of the most influential commentators from within Middle Eastern Studies”.[13] In 2003 he joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he currently serves as the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies. He has also taught at Georgetown University.[5]

Probably was that Khalid, from the wikipedia article, lower down:

2008 U.S. presidential campaign

Consequent to publication by the Los Angeles Times of an article about Obama’s attendance at a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, their relationship became an issue in the campaign.[43] Some opponents of Barack Obama claimed that the relationship between Obama and Khalidi was evidence that Obama would not maintain a pro-Israel foreign policy if elected.[43] When asked, Obama called his own commitment to Israel “unshakeable” and said he does not consult with Khalidi on foreign policy.[44] Opponents of Republican candidate John McCain pointed out that he had served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI) during the 1990s which provided grants worth $500,000 to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, which was co-founded by Khalidi, for the purpose of polling the views of the Palestinian people.[45]