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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Beaming Obama Photographed With Terror Group Leader at Mandela Memorial
by Jammie
Probably just a guy he knows from his Chicago neighborhood.
The White House is facing questions after a photograph surfaced of
President Barack Obama smiling next to the leader of an authoritarian
separatist group known for its past terrorism and what experts dubbed
egregious human rights violations.
The controversial photo in question appears to capture a smiling
President Obama standing next to Mohamed Abdelaziz, the leader of the
Polisario Front, a Moroccan separatist group in Algeria that commits massive
human rights infractions and has been cited as a “prime recruiting grounds
for al Qaeda.”
The picture was supposedly snapped at last week’s Nelson Mandela
memorial ceremony in Johannesburg and then featured on an Arab language news
website, which dubbed the encounter as “the first official meeting between
the Polisario and the U.S. president.”
Former U.S. officials and other foreign policy insiders expressed
outrage over the photo, saying that it is embarrassing for the U.S.
president to be seen smiling next to the longtime leader of a violent
Marxist movement known for torturing innocents, snatching children, and
working with one of the deadliest terror groups on the planet.
“I don’t blame the president; lots of people want their pictures taken
with him. But where’s the quality control? What were his aides thinking?”
asked Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon analyst and terrorism expert.
“The whole reason Obama travels with hundreds of people is to prevent
this sort of screw up,” said Rubin, who first flagged the photo in a column
for Commentary magazine. “This is the African equivalent of accidentally
shaking hands with the head of Hamas, Hezbollah, or any of the throwback
Palestinian Marxist groups.”
Well, he warmly greeted Raul Castro, so what’s the difference between one
Marxist terror leader and another? Oh, and when Jay Carney inevitably spins
this, he might want to come armed with the facts.
Considered a “terrorist organization” by the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, the Polisario Front is most known for holding some 400
Moroccan soldiers hostage for more than 20 years and subjecting them to
torture and other forms of abuse.
Polisario is also responsible for the deaths of five Americans and
numerous others who were killed when it launched a successful 1988 terror
attack that brought down a Western aircraft. | I******I
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