There are so many things the public does not know about the man who sits in the White House. Who is Barack Obama? In my search to find out the answers I embarked on a journey that has lasted three years and counting — and nearly made my head explode.
As usual, when Obama is the subject, Americans can’t count on the progressives in the Corporate Mainstream Media (CMM) for much help. So, what’s one to do? The foreign press proved helpful. Therefore, gleaned from the foreign press: a few stories which didn’t rate any coverage from the U.S. CMM.
In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama went on a mission to Russia with Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN). The newly-minted U.S. senator was invited to be part of a Russian fact-finding tour that inspected a nuclear weapons site in Perm, Siberia. The base Lugar and Obama visited was where mobile launch missiles were being destroyed under the Cooperative Threat Reduction program (CTR), which also went by the name of the Nunn-Lugar program.
What happened next — after the inspections were over — was at the time reported by several foreign news sources but was never reported in the USA by the CMM. The Russians detained Obama and Lugar for three hours at the airport, demanding to examine both Obama’s and Lugar’s passports and search their plane. Some sources reported that the Russians accused Barack Obama of being a spy.
But wait — there’s more!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/who_is_barack_obama.html
But it was in papers over here back in 2005.
Obama part of group locked up at Russian airport // U.S. delegation stripped of passports as guards demand to inspect planeChicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, August 29, 2005
Author: Lynn Sweet, Sun-Times
And reported on FR back in ‘09.
Maybe earlier too, not inclined to look further.
Thanks for the pings, but that is enough for this thread.
I usually read after my posting on a thread.