Thanks! What a treasure of information! From your last hotlink I see that “ - - -Obama’s New York roommate, Sohale Siddiqi, - - - “ would be an interesting guy for Joel Pollack, Editor for Breitbart Inc., to interview.
Fred Nerks notes that Siddai was in Seattle last he knew.
Do you know if Siddai, like Obama, was a foreign student at California’s Occidential College also?
“Do you know if Siddiqi , like Obama, was a foreign student at California’s Occidential College also?”
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“When Obama arrived in New York, he already knew Siddiqi - a friend of Chandoo’s and Hamid’s from Karachi who had visited Los Angeles. Looking back, Siddiqi acknowledges that he and Obama were an odd couple.
“His memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” talks about this time, but not in great detail; Siddiqi, for example, is identified only as “Sadik” - “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party.”
“Obama’s campaign wouldn’t identify “Sadik,” but The Associated Press located him in Seattle, where he raises money for a community theater.”
“Some explained that they feared inadvertently hurting Obama’s campaign. Among his friends were Siddiqi and two other Pakistanis, all of them from Karachi; several of those interviewed said the Pakistanis were reluctant to talk for fear of stoking rumors that Obama is a Muslim.”
“As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis.”
“Obama had an international circle of friends - “a real eclectic sort of group,” says Vinai Thummalapally, who himself came from Hyderabad, India.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2365625/posts?page=302#302
Meant also to comment on:
“Obama’s New York roommate, Sohale Siddiqi, - - - “ would be an interesting guy for Joel Pollack, Editor for Breitbart Inc., to interview.”
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Highly unlikely he will talk. I suspect he has many “incentives” (carrot/stick incentives) not to talk. This just about sums up all that is known about him. To my knowledge he has never given an interview, other than what was reported in the 2008/2009 time period.
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Sohale_Siddiqi
Siddiqi, according to zero, wasn’t a student, HE WAS A ‘ROOM-MATE’.
A ‘Hal Siddiqi’ was supposedly connected to a thearte in Seattle, I traced him to the Fifth Avenue Theatre, but his name has been removed, and all that remains is this:
http://www.5thavenue.org/about