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For one trip, Obama shared a dorm with various Pakistanis

If that's bad, I'm in trouble. I had a Pakistani roommate.

[muawiyah]

I'm in even more trouble. One of my roommates was an authentic African revolutionary, journalist and, it turns out, intellectual. They had a lot of revolutionaries and journalists, but only 10 intellectuals. Three others attended the same school. By about 1970 three of the 10 African intellectuals on Earth had been murdered "back home" in political strife. Only the "revolutionary/journalist" was still around, and he has since disappeared.

I know he didn't return "home" but kind of kept to Europe, Russia and South Africa because, as he would tell you any time, those places were much safer than "home".

Odds are good my roommate knew Barak Obama Sr., and I am almost certain I met Stanley Ann in Northern Virginia (circa 1973?)at a party held by an Indonesian fellow who worked for the USIA at the time.

She worked for the USIA according to an earlier poster.

I'm pretty confident all the folks I was meeting were pretty darned conservative, or were/had been CIA field personnel of very conservative leanings, which makes me wonder quite a lot about what Stanley Ann was doing.

Could see have been like some of those long term undercover agents who marry locally, keep their eye on stuff, later on write books about what interested them, etc.