Staying with a college friend for three weeks? Wow, that's a compelling motive. . .
I would make this analysis. For the time-period that he was traveling....the government guys would not have had a vast computer network service to point at him for the type of travel that he did. I’d also suggest that his ticket likely was a New York City to Saudi Arabia ticket, and that he probably bought another ticket once in Saudi Arabia. Even today, you could do the same thing and avoid having US Customs poke into where you were traveling to.
As for the passport...it’s still an open question.
Rush Limbaugh was (and still is) out of touch on these issues.
Obama Hopes Passportgate Will Distract from Racist Slur
(Mar 23, 2008)
My recollection is vague on this but it seems to me his mother Stanley Ann Dunham was working in that part of the world with an agency that studied indigenous people common to that area.
Sure, just two weeks later and he spills news of this trip as if, ooooh, I dunno, like, uh, maybe he or his handlers are scared poopless that someone who had a peek might spill the beans first. We only have his word that it was merely a few days' visit with a college buddy. There's been rumors the visit was several months long. Then a murder that got shoved under the rug far too quickly. Just another in a long line of coincidences with this clown.
Thank you, Flotsam_Jetsome.
An article in the Washington times was written on Saturday, April 19, 2008. First paragraph indicated LQH was murdered on 04/18/08.
A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/
From the American Thinker's article:
On April 8, 2008, after the breach became public, Obama confessed to having taken a trip to Pakistan in 1981. The then-candidate said: "I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college." Journalist Jake Tapper was surprised and said: "This last part -- a college trip to Pakistan -- was news to many of us who have been following the race closely. And it was odd that we hadn't hear about it before, given all the talk of Pakistan during this campaign."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/obamas_passport_breach_unanswered_questions_and_an_unsolved_murder.html Why, you ask, Jake? Because looking at the dates hilghted above, 0b0z0 didn't know if his thugs would be able to silence LQH 10 days later on 04/18/08. That's why!
Did Obama confess to this trip, which he doesn't mention in either of his autobiographies, because of the passport breach? While the oft-repeated charge that Americans were forbidden to travel to Pakistan in 1981 appears to be false, questions remain about why Obama took the trip at all, and what he did there.
LQH must have found out something about 0b0z0 being a Naturalized citizen OR simply "Country of Birth: Kenya" on his American passport!
You can read the next paragraph quoting the Indian counterterrorism expert Bahukutumbi Raman asked pointed questions about this trip.
One educated guess, LQH could have been a Clinton operative. He "checked" McCain's, Hillary's and 0b0z0's passport files to mask the real prize, the latter.
This also helps to explain what I posted a couple of days ago about the mysterious 6-hour meeting between 0b0z0 and Hillary, where I guessed that they traded threats ending with 0b0z0 prevailing...maybe after reminding Hillary of what happened to her operative, LQH, 0b0z0 won the day. This may add specificity to my post.
Here is the pertinent paragraph that I posted:
"Some years ago, I posted my SPECULATION that Hillary was threatened in that mysterious 6-hour meeting with 0b0z0 during the '08 primary. Most likely 0b0z0’s counter-threat was in answer to the Clintons' own threat of disqualifying 0b0z0. I believe it was 0b0z0's counter-threat of Black rioting and voting against her for McCain, which meant that the Republicans would be handed the WH. I'm sure there was another threat of using the Chicago formidable Machine against the Clintons less formidable Arkansas Machine, to what extent, God only knows."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2908395/posts?page=220#220