[LucyT]

Thanks, rockinqsranch and SunkenCiv.

Ping to Washington Post Article.

“Auchi was a business contact of Antoin Rezko, a former Chicago developer and Obama fundraiser currently on trial for corruption.”

This too:

http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/auchi-rezko-obama-who-are-they.html

[”Auchi’s history from International arms (gun running) sales, to banking ventures, to his association with the Baath Party and Sadam Hussein from his earliest days prior to becoming the Dictator of Iraq, to his days in the end as Oil Minister for Sadam during the UN oil for food scandal.”]

[PhilDragoo]

"(In 2004) Mr. Auchi traveled by private aircraft to Midway Airport in Chicago and then to a fete at the Four Season Hotel, where he met with his business partner in Chicago real estate, Mr. Rezko, as well as with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Also present that night, according to a fresh report by James Bone and Dominic Kennedy of the London Times, was State Senator Barack Obama, who had recently won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat...."

Obama's Iraqi Oil for Food connection

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks for the ping, the links get thicker by the day.