Posted on 08/09/2010 8:57:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The First Lady, her youngest daughter Sasha, and their group of friends left the Spanish coast and travelled to Ronda for a day of sightseeing accompanied by their vast security escort in a 13 car motorcade.
The group which included a number of Mrs Obama’s friends visited some of the town’s historic houses and later stopped for lunch at...”
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Meanwhile at the five-star luxury Villa Padierna, where the group have chosen to spend their mini-break, preparations were under way for Marbella’s event of the year...”
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One name on the guest list that could raise a few eyebrows among US diplomatic circles is Adnan Khashoggi.
The Saudi Arabian businessman, 75, who made his name as an arms dealer in the 1980s, was linked to the Iran-Contra scandal...”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/7931922/Michelle-Obama-visits-Ronda.html
Yeah, jobs created or saved, man, jobs created...
Nice of Michelle Antoinette to help the Spanish economy. Next time, vacation in the US, First Lady.
Just love those happy smiling faces.
It’s clear she brought her nasty face with her on vacation.
Words fail me. Evict them.
Well, she’s back now and this trip will be considered *old news*. They’re gonna stick with the “it was a private trip” and that’s all we need to know. Case closed.
Thanks for the ping.
So Michelle Obama Met Interesting Arms Dealer in Spain
Stranger than fiction. Good work!
To: kristinn Check out El Mundo today. It is reporting:Several Arab royal families also spend their summers in Marbella for many years. Thus, there will be a meeting between Michelle Obama and Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, governor of Riyadh and brother of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, while another meeting is shuffled from the first lady with the owner of Málaga CF, billionaire businessman, son of Qatar's Interior Minister and member of the Qatari royal family, Abdullah Al Thani.Haven't seen that in the American press.This link is to a google translation of El Mundo's front page. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.elmundo.es/&ei=xsZdTNaUPML6lwegweiYCA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Del%2Bmundo%26hl%3Den
Click on "Andulasia" at the top, look at the left hand column of articles about Michelle and click on "Pleasure and Vacation Policy Michelle".
The paper also reports Jesse Jackson Jr is staying at a private house in Marbella and she "could" meet with him. It doesn't say who owns the home Jackson is hanging out in.
14 posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 5:47:23 PM by Brugmansian
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Looks like Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz's son "Ahmed" and telephone number mentioned here in the snippet below about the interrogation of Zubaydah [according to Posner] ? :
...When questioning stalled, according to Posner, CIA men flew Zubaydah to an Afghan complex fitted out as a fake Saudi jail chamber, where "two Arab-Americans, now with Special Forces," pretending to be Saudi inquisitors, used drugs and threats to scare him into more confessions. Yet when Zubaydah was confronted by the false Saudis, writes Posner, "his reaction was not fear, but utter relief."
Happy to see them, he reeled off telephone numbers for a senior member of the royal family who would, said Zubaydah, "tell you what to do." The man at the other end would be Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, a Westernized nephew of King Fahd's and a publisher better known as a racehorse owner. His horse War Emblem won the Kentucky Derby in 2002.
----- "Confessions of a Terrorist : Author Gerald Posner claims an al-Qaeda leader made explosive allegations while under interrogation," By JOHANNA MCGEARY, Time, 8/31/03
Thanks AWM!
Seriously, Louisiana and Mississippi probably could have really used the $26 million boost—Florida and TX too :(
lol they are busy trying to destroy American so why bring any business to them..they want us defensless..that means totlally broke.
lol they are busy trying to destroy American so why bring any business to them..they want us defensless..that means totlally broke.
They're never happy, never satisfied, and nothing they get is ever enough.
How can they be in such a beautiful place, with access to anything and everything they could possibly want, and still look so very miserable?
Check out photo and comment at # 34, then see post # 29.
[Thanks TheOldLady.]
The light dawns.
Make sure you read the entire thread and the accompanying thread that 29 comes from...There was more to that trip then initially meets the eye.....Unless you believe in pure coincidence.
Would you please give us an overview, now there are problems with the link. Thanks.
Jarrett, the Whitakers, Nesbitt, Blanchard vacationed over the holidays with the Obama family in Hawaii. The same group also traveled to Oslo in December to see Obama pick up the Nobel Peace Prize.The same group was also at the Nov. 24 State Dinner.
That was in addition to celebrating Michelles 46th together.
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