High school classmate, George Orme: “He had a worldly view. He would talk about people in Pakistan and was a lot more aware of Middle East politics than anybody I knew. He was following conflicts around the world and talked about it all the time.”
Imad Husain a Pakistani and Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental
Mohammed Hasan Chandoo a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshman.
Wahid Hamid a wealthy Pakistani friend of Obama when he was a freshman. Hamid and Obama traveled to Karachi, Pakistan after graduation from Occidental.
Sohale Siddiqi is identified as “Sadik” in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, and is described as “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan, and Obama’s roommate when he attended Columbia University. Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia (and illegally in the US at the time, per BO).
Was any of this association during the time Stanley Ann lived in Pakistan? I just read, I think yesterday, that she lived there for 5 years, I hadn’t realized she lived there that long. In a fancy hotel - and that 0bama came and stayed with her, apparently for a few months. From what I’ve read, he visited Paki two times. What was he doing in Paki, what drew him there, what kind of connections was he making, what was he learning?