Bullets from the Underground (NY Brink's Murders 1981)

Time Magazine ^ | November 2, 1981 | Claudia Wallis

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A bloody robbery attempt brings a roundup of '60s fugitives

The armored Brink's truck pulled up to the Nanuet National Bank near suburban Nyack, N. Y., shortly before 4 p.m. and two guards began loading $1.6 million in cash. Suddenly three armed men in ski masks jumped out of a red van and opened fire. One guard was killed instantly and the other critically wounded. The three bandits and an accomplice dashed off with the loot. "They didn't even ask them to hand over the money," declared an incredulous witness. "They just blasted away."

The robbers changed conveyances at a nearby shopping center and a few minutes later ran smack into a police roadblock. Two Nyack police officers who had stopped the lead vehicle, an orange U-Haul van, were shot dead by figures who leaped from the back of the van.

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Θbama was an adult living in New York less than 20 miles from where the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army slaughtered two police officers and a Brink's security guard. That is also the same year, he publicly admits to traveling to Pakistan. News accounts indicate that he travels to Jacobabad, Pakistan which was near to Osama bin Laden's base camp in Quetta.

He is a unique figure in history to have been in proximity to infamous domestic and international terrorists. But this fact is not interesting enough to the main stream media.

[palmer]

Θbama was an adult living in New York less than 20 miles from where the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army slaughtered two police officers and a Brink's security guard.

Proximity? Aren't there better arguments against Obama than proximity?

[ncfool]

Where was Ayers living in 1981 was it near the location Obama at Columbia U.

[Harry Wurzbach]

Was not Ayers in NYC at the time, living a few blocks from Obama?

[El Sordo]

Interesting use of Theta.

[Harry Wurzbach]

Obama reluctant to release his Columbia records. Maybe it’s simply to hide a less than stellar academic record. Or perhaps it’s to cover his track crossing with Ayers at that point in time, who apparently took some courses at Columbia. Now why would that be important....?

[nuconvert]

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here, ..... but sounds like you’re stretching

[Canedawg]

Pretty good article, written in 1981, before journalism officially died.

Of course, something not mentioned was Burns’ alias:

One of the former Black Panthers arrested in connection with the Brinks robbery is Nathaniel Burns, a member of the Black Liberation Army. Burns is also known as Sekou Odinga. Burns/Odinga was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for attempted murder of a police officer. (ODINGA, sound familiar?)

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/1981-new-york-city-just-a-bizarre-coincidence/

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Drinking coffee and having a political coming out party in the home of the unrepentant terrorist couple Ayers and Dohm is pretty proximate in most people's opinions.

[ncfool]

Strange his years in college are a mystery?

Occidential?
Columbia?
Harvard?

I bet Obama and Ayers had some coffee at Chock full of Nuts on 57th st.

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One point to remember is the the Θbama campaign was misleading about exactly where he visited Pakistan (claiming only to have visited Karachi and Hyperabad, India), so any info from them will be deceptive and questionable.

[ncfool]

Sekou Odinga? tell me more. Where is he today. What is his pedigree?

[doc1019]

Not trying to defend, in anyway, Obama, however:

I have a cousin that had a friend whose second cousin (twice removed) knew a friend that was in the theater were Oswald was captured … the day after the incident. Coincidence, I think not. /s

Stretching to say the least. ;-)

[The_Media_never_lie]

Θbama was an adult living in New York less than 20 miles from where the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army slaughtered two police officers and a Brink's security guard. That is also the same year, he publicly admits to traveling to Pakistan.

Why did he travel to Packistan? Was if for a vacation?

[EDINVA]

maybe he’s saying that Obama wasn’t 9 years old when the Ayers/Dohrn crowd (Weather Underground) committed this attempted robbery and cold-blooded murders in New York ?

Maybe he’s saying Obama was a politically involved Ivy League student in NYC, only 20 miles away from Nyack, when this crime went down, and can’t pretend he just didn’t have a clue about who Ayers/Dohrn and their comrades were ?

[ncfool]

Some strange links on the net on this name. I had never heard of Sekou Odinga before today. But now it does make me wonder about the connection of Bill Ayers and his Weather underground group in NYC.

From : http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/1981-new-york-city-just-a-bizarre-coincidence/

This was mined from another blog on the net but it gets you thinking about Obama's years in New York City. Did he meet Ayer's and Dohrn while there?

My money is that he did.

It’s 1981, New York City. Barack Obama is residing two blocks away from Weather Underground leader William Ayers. We know very little about Obama’s life in NYC during that period; supposedly he transferred from Occidental College and completed undergraduate studies at Columbia University. Obama’s academic records and, in fact, the records of his life from those years in New York are lost. [See references at end.]

At Occidental, Obama belonged to Students for Economic Democracy (SED), a radical socialist “cousin” organization to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), of which the Weather Underground was an off-shoot. Did Obama continue his SED membership at Columbia? (I read recently that Columbia was a major SDS center.)

In 1981, former Weather Underground members along with a few former Black Panthers are arrested in association with the robbery of a Brinks armored truck 20 miles north of Manhattan. A guard is killed and the driver is wounded. $1.6 million is recovered.

One of the Weather Underground members arrested for the Brinks crime is Kathy Boudin, along with her boyfriend David Gilbert. Boudin is sentenced to 20 years-to-life. Boudin and Gilbert leave behind a 14-month-old son, Chesa Boudin, who ends up being raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn while his parents live in prison.

One of the former Black Panthers arrested in connection with the Brinks robbery is Nathaniel Burns, a member of the Black Liberation Army. Burns is also known as Sekou Odinga. Burns/Odinga is sentenced to 25 years-to-life for attempted murder of a police officer. (ODINGA, sound familiar?)

Obama and Ayers later end up collaborating on several controversial projects in Chicago. They work together to grant funds to Rashid Khalidi, Trinity United Church of Christ, and ACORN, among other “worthy” recipients. Ayers and Dohrn host a soirée at their home to launch young Barack’s political career. (But we’re now to believe that Barack did not know that Ayers and Dohrn created and starred in the Weather Underground, for which they were tried as criminals.)

As we often see in Obama’s history, here again there are a few degrees of separation that cause curious and intelligent people to ask: Is this just another set of odd coincidences?

I believe that Obama knew Ayers in New York City, and that he’s hiding the association with Ayers, among others, in refusing to provide information about his life there.

Obviously Obama’s campaign is lying (and insulting our intelligence) when it audaciously claims that Obama knew nothing of Ayers’ affiliation with the Weather Underground, up until…when?..(I must have missed that part of Axelrod’s explanation. When does he claim that Obama learned about Ayer’s lifelong project, the WU?)

In any event, accepting Axelrod’s explanation would require us to conclude that Obama is stupid. Really stupid, which sort of flies in the face of the magna cum laude thing from Harvard, right?

Everyone knows that the REAL questions are:

When did Obama first learn about Ayers?

When did he first meet Ayers?

What were his “off-campus” activities in New York?

Perhaps if Obama were open about his life, and did not go to such extreme lengths to cover up fundamental facts of his existence, we would not be forced to outline such events as the 1981 Brinks robbery.

This is just plain in your face as to being in the same city and the same time. Barack Obama needs to open his records from Columbia so we can see he actually was even a student there at that time. If you want Americans to vote for you Barack you need to be completely transparent. What a fraud the Democratic party has given America.

[ncfool]

Texas Darling link:
From : http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/1981-new-york-city-just-a-bizarre-coincidence/

[Nonperson]

Here's even better coverage of the Weather Underground/Black Liberation Army killers involved in the Brinks robbery! (16 pages of detail)

Tru TV Crime Library

[MikeFrancesa.com]

I think the FBI Files on Discovery channel had a one hour show on this crime.

[truthluva]

One man who is in prison for this is Sekou Odinga (given name Nathaniel Burns). He was with the Black Liberation Army who joined the Weather Underground in the Brins robbery. Odinga is also the last name of a man who claims to be a cousin of Barack Hussein Obama. Raila Odinga incited violence in Kenya after losing an election. His father was associated with Barack Hussein Obama’s father.

While I have not been able to link Obama to Sekou Odinga...I wonder about this coincidence given that Obama was in NY “attending” Columbia University at the time.