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To: Kansas58
There is nothing in the WND (no good source to begin with) that states that there were any restrictions on travel to Pakistan in the eighties, which is what I commented on, so what's your point?

Either there is proof that he travelled as an Indonesian or there isn't. Have you seen any? Conjecture is not proof.

123 posted on 06/21/2009 1:16:29 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911
Prompted by Obama’s statements, ABC News contacted the presidential candidate's campaign, which affirmed that in 1981 – the year Obama transferred from Occidental College to Columbia University – Obama visited his mother and sister Maya in Indonesia. Obama then went on to Pakistan with a friend from college whose family was from that country, the campaign said.

Obama was in Pakistan for about three weeks, said the campaign, staying with his friend's family in Karachi and also visiting Hyderabad in Southern India.

Pakistan in 1981 was under military rule. It was difficult for U.S. citizens to travel to the country without assistance. It would have been easier for someone to enter Pakistan on an Indonesian passport.

If Obama indeed possessed Indonesian citizenship as a child, it is unlikely he retains such citizenship. The country's bylaws require any Indonesian citizen living abroad for more than five years to formally declare his intention to return, otherwise risk losing his citizenship status. The law does not necessarily mean Indonesian citizenship would be immediately lost. The law can be overruled by ministerial order.

Obama’s registration in Indonesia under the name “Barry Soetoro” also raises questions as to whether he adopted that name in the U.S. at any time. According to Illinois state filings, when Obama registered as an attorney in 1991, under the name Barack Obama, he stated he did not have any former names.”

---- Taken DIRECTLY from the WND article I posted, earlier.

Troll all you want, but please don't presume to tell me what I have posted, as you obviously don't read what I post. WND has FAR more credibility than anything you have come up with, thus far.

163 posted on 06/21/2009 4:13:31 PM PDT by Kansas58
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