Posted on 12/14/2008 3:52:20 PM PST by jetxnet
More confusion (evil grin)
I ran across this last night. Go about 2/3 down the page to the picture of Obama sitting with grandparents on bench and the ring on his left hand disscussion.
Interested in everyone’s take on this (esp our photoshop experts).
I don’t place much emphasis on the ring, my own son was given a ring by his grandparents when he graduated and he wore it on his left ring finger. I had seen the speculation previously but cannot access the article you link because it freezes up my computer. There is another site with the same write up which is more friendly to my computer.
Works for me. Sometimes I run across things that I have my doubts about, this was one of them. I always like a second opinion.
For the record: (Georgia, Say it ain’t so!)
Bill Status
SR 356
Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq
Al-Mansour - honoring
1. AbernathyI 38th
Senate Comm: / House Comm: /
Senate Vote: Yeas Nays
Code Sections amended:
First Reader
1. AbernathyI 38th
SR 356
A resolution honoring Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour.
Full Text
SR 356 LC 19 3568
A RESOLUTION
1 Honoring Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour; and for other
2 purposes.
3 WHEREAS, Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour is an
4 internationally esteemed attorney, author, and lecturer
5 whose views have garnered worldwide attention; and
6 WHEREAS, he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Howard
7 University and a graduate of the University of California at
8 Berkeley School of Law; and
9 WHEREAS, he is a co-founder of the international law firm of
10 Al-Waleed, Al-Talal and Al-Mansour; and
11 WHEREAS, he is a member of the board of directors of various
12 international corporations involved in the fields of
13 biomedicine, electronics, insurance, real estate, banking,
14 and financial investments; and
15 WHEREAS, he has lectured throughout the world including
16 guest lectureships at such prestigious institutions as
17 Harvard University, the University of California at
18 Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles, and
19 Howard University; and
20 WHEREAS, in recognition of the scope and value of his
21 achievements and contributions, he has been honored by
22 inclusion in the World Who’s Who, World Who’s Who in Finance
23 and Industry, International Who’s Who in the Arab World,
24 World Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Who’s Who in Black
25 America, World Who’s Who in American Law, the Royal Blue
26 Book of London, Two Thousand Men of Achievement, Who’s Who
27 in the West, Who’s Who in California, and the American Hall
28 of Fame; and
29 WHEREAS, he is author of 16 books including the latest and
30 most popular one, Betrayal By Any Other Name.
31 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the
32 members of this body honor Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq
33 Al-Mansour for his outstanding achievements and for his
34 active and significant role in shaping and interpreting
35 world events.
-1-
LC 19 3568
1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is
2 authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of
3 this resolution to Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour.
Review of “Betrayal By Any Other Name” (amazon)
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Betrayal By Any Other Name systematically answers the controversial question of who truly speaks for- African Americans and Hispanic Americans. Over 800 attention-riveted pages beginning in Africa before and through the terror of slavery, Civil War reconstruction, Civil Rights and Black Nationalism. A similar treatment is presented in the evolution of Hispanic leadership couched in little known historical facts about Aztec and Mayan civilizations, how the west was-really won, and how Hispanic leadership came into existence. Probabilities are probed for future Black Brown coalitions and cooperation as the two groups grow to comprise the-majority of America. Many penetrating insights and ideas are presented, a few of which are:
* The application of the psychological phenomena “multiple personality disorder” to African-Americans as “group multiple personality disorder”.
* Significant Islamic influences on the development and growth of the fiery nationalist leader, Marcus Garvey.
* The meteoric rise and philosophy of a former slave and one of-the wealthiest Blacks in the history of America, Paul Cuffe.
* A practical approach for community self-help efforts-toward an about-face in school drop-outs, crime, incarceration, drugs, etc. which has reached crisis status in the Black community according to the most-recent annual report of the National Urban League.-
—This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
U.S. BANKS LURE FOREIGN INVESTORS
Press of Atlantic City, The (NJ) - Thursday, April 25, 1991
Author: BYLINE: Associated Press
*Bank stocks have rebounded but their prices are relatively cheap. With stable interest rates, they become good buys.
In recent weeks, Saudi tycoons have surfaced as major investors in two of the nation’s biggest banks, Citicorp and Chase Manhattan Corp. The deals are probably a coincidence and don’t show any particular trend of Arab investment, most experts said Wednesday.
(snip)
In February, Citicorp announced Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia purchased $590 million of convertible preferred stock in a private placement. The prince stated he intends to limit his ownership in Citicorp, the nation’s largest banking company, to 10 percent. The Federal Reserve must approve any individual’s acquisition of more than a 10 percent interest in a bank or bank holding company.
(snip)
Citicorp’s private deal with the Talal was designed to boost the troubled banking giant’s capital levels and prove to the marketplace that it could attract investors.
Section: Business
Page: D8
Dateline: NEW YORK
Record Number: 9104250130
Copyright (c) 1991 The Press of Atlantic City
(excerpt)
Food for thought: Could it be possible Stanley Ann knew al-Mansour before odoomba? Was she the common demoninator?
From a 2002 biz announcement:
VP WELCOMES DR.KHALID ABDULLAH TARIO AL-MANSOUR TO IT’S BOARD.
Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tario Al-Mansour is an internationally acknowledged advisor to Heads of State and business leaders in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America. He has been actively involved in structuring investments and joint ventures worldwide for over 35 years.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=74231
Khalid al-Mansour had other friends of influence in the literary and publishing world, foremost among them the late, literary leftist superstar and terrorist suck-up, Edward Said.
Said and Obama knew each other. A photo floating around the blogosphere shows the pair engaged in intimate discussion at an Arab-American community dinner
in Chicago 1998.
Bloggers ask how a then obscure state senator managed to wangle a seat next to the evening’s keynote speaker, a man the Nation would describe as “probably the best-known intellectual in the world.”
The answer can be traced back to Obama’s two-year stint at Columbia University in the early 1980s, where Said taught as a distinguished professor of comparative literature.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Obama took at least one course from Said. The intimacy of their 1998 conversation suggests a deeper relationship.
Obama, however, will not talk at all about Said, his New York years or his trip to Pakistan during those years despite numerous requests from the New York Times.
Like Obama, Said made his deracinated childhood the central, compelling metaphor for his significant life work. His identity as a Palestinian and a refugee, driven from his homeland by Israeli violence, would inform everything he wrote.
Said did not shy from using his grief and his influence to advance his cause. For 14 years, he served on the Palestine National Conference, a kind of parliament-in-exile alongside the likes of the PLO’s Yassir Arafat and still harder core radicals from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the terrorist group that hijacked the Achille Lauro.
Unfortunately for Said, an Israeli scholar named Justus Reid Weiner did two years of hard-nosed, boots-on-the-ground background research on Said’s life and published his findings in Commentary.
Weiner had proved beyond all doubt that America’s most celebrated Palestinian refugee was not a Palestinian or a refugee, let alone a Muslim.
In reality, Said was a Christian and an American citizen from birth, who grew up not in Palestine but in Cairo, where he attended the best British schools before leaving for a pricey American prep school as a teenager.
Although the New York Times reluctantly confirmed Weiner’s findings, the major media had no more interest in exposing the fraud of Said’s life any more than they do Muhammad Ali’s or Obama’s.
Among Said’s friends and allies on the American-hating, Arafat-loving left were none other than Khalid al-Mansour and – drum roll, please – William Ayers.
Radical turned actor Peter Coyote suggests as much in his diary written for the 1996 Democratic National Convention.
“After that,” Coyote writes, “I inform Martha that I’m dragging her to the apartment of old friends, ex-Weathermen, Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, hosting a party for Senator Leahy. Perhaps Edward Said will be there.”
Said did not shy from using his grief and his influence to advance his cause. For 14 years, he served on the Palestine National Conference, a kind of parliament-in-exile alongside the likes of the PLO’s Yassir Arafat and still harder core radicals from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the terrorist group that hijacked the Achille Lauro.
Interesting theme, Islamic victimhood. For example:
In a recent association lecture, Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour, an American author and lawyer who now lives in the Middle East, urged the youngsters to study math and science, as well as their own history. ''If I read Jet magazine and nothing else, I can't build a pyramid or a bridge,'' said Al-Mansour. ''If I talk every day only about what white people have done to me, I can't build a road.''
Edition: L5 Page: 1E Column: CITYSCAPE: Record Number: 4910066033 Copyright 1991 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WHile doing research on Khalid al-Manour last night I came across documents that put ‘a’ (as opposed to ‘the’) Sohaile Siddiqi* in Dallas Texas, 1992.
A lien from Doctor’s Clinic against Sohaile Siddiqui for an accident 8/92. The lien was released in 1999.
Also a traffic violation in 1990.
(from Dallas County Public Records)
Possible Relatives:
SIDDIQUI, RUMMANA I (Age 44)
SIDDIQI, SOHALL
SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD SOHAIL
MUSTAFA, RAFIA M (Age 39)
SAN RAMON, CA
LIVERMORE, CA
DALLAS, TX
DORAL, FL
PLEASANTON, CA
DUBLIN, CA
RICHARDSON, TX
Available DALLAS, TX
PLEASANTON, CA
DORAL, FL
and this
Possible Relatives:
SIDDIQI, SOHAIL IDREES (Age 92)
SIDDIQUI, SOHAIL
DALLAS, TX
PLEASANTON, CA
DORAL, FL
Obama gravitated to Middle Easterners at Occidental, a pretty good indication of who he identified with. He didn’t become a black man until the years between Columbia and Harvard.
{Really needing tinfoil: A Christain black is more papatable to the masses than an Islamic black)
Good link.
I wonder what Stanley Ann was involved in before being whisked away to Hawaii.
Good job. I noted the Dallas connect.
Wonder when she posed for those photos?
Edward Said - (Note: “Rashid Khalidi is a member of an old and prestigious Palestinian family. His cousin, Jerusalem-born Walid Khalidi.”)
(no links)
Sadat Proposes U.S. Professor as Palestinian Envoy
Washington Post, The (DC) - Sunday, November 13, 1977
Author: Dusko Doder, Washington Post Staff Writer; Washington Post staff researcher Jane Freundel contributed to this article.
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, in a move to circumvent the main stumbling block to reconvening Middle East peace talks, had proposed that the Palestinians be represented at Geneva by an American university professor of Palestinian origin.
(snip)
Another U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent who was mentioned as a possible candidate is Edward W. Said , 42, a native of Jerusalem who was educted at Harvard and Columbia and served on the faculties of both universities . He is currently a professor of literature at Columbia and is also a member of the Palestine National Council.
(snip)
..
Building an Arab-American Lobby
Washington Post, The (DC) - Sunday, September 14, 1980
(snip)
Hisham Shirabi, 50, a professor of political science at Georgetown, and Edward Said , 44, a professor of literature at Columbia , are considered luminaries among Arab-Americans, having written important studies on the Mideast struggle. But they are different from Shadyac and Zogby, who are American-born. Though American citizens, and married to Americans, Shirabi and Said are Palestinian born and think of themselves as exiles. Though they will probably never go “home,” their feeling for the Arab stake in the Middle East is personal and direct.
Lean and taut, friendly enough but rigidly formal, Shirabi talked with me in a student restaurant near the Georgetown campus. He smiled rarely and with melancholy. “When we lost the country in 1948,” he said softly, “I was studying at the University of Chicago, and I could not go home. The tragedy has shaped my life ever since. Until 1967 we had confidence that Nasser would liberate the land. When the war came, we went into deep cultural shock. It drove some of us to reconsider the entire Arab past and future. We had to ask, ‘How come?’”
Said is dark and handsome with an athletic look and an easy but nervous laugh. I met with him in his dingy office on the Columbia campus. “My friends and I had all been admirers of Nasser,” he said , “and we couldn’t understand what had happened. The war gave us a sense of Israel’s dynamism and of its scientific, military, technical and intellectual prowess. At the same time, we saw the inability of the Arabs to work together. We did a lot of soul-searching in the months after the war.”
It was in those postwar months that Shirabi and Said met in Chicago with other Arab-American intellectuals, most of them exiles like themselves, to found the Association of Arab-American University Graduates. Currently its membership is about a thousand, most of whom are campus-based intellectuals. It publishes a newsletter, information papers, monographs, books and a scholarly periodical called Arab Quarterly.
The AAUG’s positions, Shirabi said , are militantly pro-Palestinian, pan-Arab and radical. Furthermore, the AAUG, he said , identifies openly with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which he described as a “consensus group” supported by all Arab-Americans except some from the Lebanese Christian right. Shirabi himself maintains close ties with the PLO, and Said is actually a member of the Palestine National Council, the PLO’s parent body.
Shirabi said that withing the past few years the AAUG has followed the PLO in abandoning insistnece upon “liberation,” and now favors a “two-state solution” to the Palestine question. But, like the PLO, the AAUG refuses to support the Camp David agrement, and its subsequent criticism of President Sadat has caused its Egyptian members to drop out.
Though the AAUG addresses its literature to both Arab and Arab-American questions, much of its organizational work is directed at politicizing the Arab-American community. Shirabi told me the AAUG would be willingly accept funds from the PLO and the oil-producing countries to expand its activities, but he noted regretfully that they have never offered any. He acknowledged that the AAUG had probably had little impact on American policy. But he said it had been useful in establishing an Arab intellectual presence in America and had helped arouse Arab-Americans from their traditional indifference to world politics.
Abdeen Jabara, a Detroit-born Arab-American, had opened a law office in his home town in 1965 to serve the city’s 200,000-member Arab-American community. A year later he went to Lebanon, where his parents were from, to learn some Arabic. He was in Beirut when the Six-Day War broke out. “It was like standing before a dam that burst” was how he described his reaction to me.
Jabara was among those who met with Shirabi and Said in Chicago to found the Association of Arab-American University Graduates in the fall of 1967. A few months later the AAUG’s charter was actually written in his office. Jabara, now 39, was named the AAUG’s first executive secretary and later served as its president. In the mid-1970s, seeing a need to focus attention on the Palestinians, he joined with Jim Zogby to open the office of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign in Washington.
(snip)
..
U.S. SUGGESTS 7 PALESTINIANS FOR NEW TALKS WITH ISRAEL
Miami Herald, The (FL) - Wednesday, June 5, 1985
(snip)
The Israeli also confirmed the names of Edward Said of Columbia University and Hisham Sharabi of Georgetown University. An Israeli newspaper said the third professor was Walid Khalidi of Harvard, a former member of the Palestine National Council.
..
U. OF C. PROF BRINGS `FAIR` VIEW TO TALKS
Chicago Tribune - Thursday, October 31, 1991
Author: Cheryl Lavin.
What`s a New York-born University of Chicago professor doing in Madrid as a member of the Palestinian advisory committee to the Middle East peace talks? It`s precisely because he was born in the U.S. and teaches in Chicago,
among other factors, that made the U. of C.`s Rashid Khalidi a logical, and
even obvious, choice, according to Palestinians and others.
They said the advisory committee, a link between the official
Palestinian-Jordanian delegation and the Palestine Liberation Organization,
was designed to bypass Israeli objections to participation by Palestinians
living in Jerusalem. It had a French-Palestinian and an English-Palestinian
and needed an American.
And ``it was important to the PLO to have scholars on the committee,
because as much as possible, they have a more dispassionate outlook,`` said
Louise Cainkar, director of the Palestine Human Rights Information Center.
At 43, Khalidi is younger than such better-known Palestinian academics in the U.S. as Edward Said of Columbia University in New York and Ibrahim Abu-
Lughod of Northwestern University, both of whom were born in the Middle
East.
Moreover, to the press and the American public, Khalidi is perceived as
representative of a new, more moderate generation of leadership and as an
articulate spokesman for the Palestinian cause.
Khalidi is a member of an old and prestigious Palestinian family. His
cousin, Jerusalem-born Walid Khalidi , 65, who teaches at Harvard, is the
senior member of the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation to the talks.
(snip)
..
Middle East Studies Under Scrutiny in U.S. - Watchdog Groups Allege Left-Wing Bias
Washington Post - Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Author: Michael Dobbs, Washington Post Staff Writer
When Rashid Khalidi took over the newly established Edward Said Chair of Middle East Studies at Columbia University last fall, the appointment was generally viewed as an academic coup for the school, which had succeeded in wooing away a prominent Middle East expert from the University of Chicago, a longtime rival.
But Khalidi soon became the target of an Internet campaign that questioned his patriotism. Conservative critics zeroed in on his outspoken opposition to the war in Iraq and his public expressions of sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
“Columbia vs. America,” declared a story on Campus Watch, a Web site dedicated to revealing the alleged bias of mainstream Middle East studies programs at U.S. colleges and universities. The New York Sun dubbed Khalidi “the professor of hate.”
(snip)
More al-Mansour info here He’s a deadbeat Dad.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181075/posts
Someone posted a *link* to those photos last night, but it was pulled before new people on FR had a chance to see them. The article and link was posted last year, and is still on FR, so it wasn't a new and shocking article.
More revealing photos frequently are posted on FR and allowed to remain without comment. In the case of Stanley Ann, no photos were posted, only a link to the photos.
Thanks, LucyT.
Has there been any info on when, where and by whom those photos were taken?
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