! Hussein bin Obama's Sleeper Cell Financier - Who is Khalid al-Mansour?

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Who is Khalid al-Mansour?

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Who is the ?mystery man? former Manhattan Borough Chairman Percy
Sutton named as having aided Barack Obama financially at Harvard Law
School?

Signs of al-Mansour?s work exists in Malaysia, Brazil, South Africa,
Saudi Arabia, and spans four decades in the United States, Newsmax
discovered while scouring hundreds of sources for the story it
reported on the revelations Wednesday.

His life story could have been written as a Horatio Alger-style rise
from rags to riches. He sees himself as something of the ?return of
Antar,? a mythical black poet-warrior of pre-Islamic times. His
real-life exploits range from a surprise one-on-one meeting with the
prime minister of India as a college student to mentoring Black
Panthers? founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in the early 1960s.

Saga Starts With Meeting Saudi King

Al-Mansour?s rise to fame and fortune began with an introduction to
the Saudi king in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1977.

?I was asked by a Saudi friend ? he was a student down in Newport
(Calif.) ?to go home with him to Riyadh,? al-Mansour told Newsmax.

His friend was a member of the royal family and planned to ask the
king for money to help with his studies in the United States. But the
king was in no mood to be generous.

?He was mad. And then my friend told me that the basis of his anger
was that OPEC was being sued,? al-Mansour said. ?This was a very nasty
conspiracy that involved some of the biggest respected political names
in America. The king didn?t know all of that, but he knew he wasn?t
happy.?

Al-Mansour?s friend told the kin he was a lawyer. ?The King didn?t
know if I was a good lawyer or bad lawyer, but said, ?Will you do it??
I said, ?I?d have to study it.? He said, ?Just take it, and get out!??
The king required that only one lawyer represent the Organization of
the Petroleum Exporting Countries. ?So you win or you lose, based on
the outcome because no one?s going to listen to any excuses. You?re
either a loser for life, or a winner for life,? al-Mansour said.

Al-Mansour was a winner ? big time.

Changed Name After Studying Islam

Born the 11th of 12 children as Donald Warden to a polyglot father who
often spoke glowingly about Islam, al-Mansour decided to change his
name in 1964 after learning Arabic and studying Islam.

?I found that Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, if you put ?em
together, it means that, if I?m eternally the slave of God, and I
follow the right path, I will always be victorious. I liked that. So
that became my name.?

He met and befriended Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the world?s
19-thealthiest person, when the prince was studying at Menlo College
in California in the late 1970s. Al-Mansour?s law partner was
representing the prince in a court case in California.

After getting a degree in business administration from Menlo in 1979,
Prince Alwaleed went back to Saudi Arabia determined to become
extremely successful, al-Mansur recalled.

The two began to work together, and the prince asked him to help him
invest in Africa. ?He said, let?s make our focus turning Africa
around. He has never told me until today where this idea came from,
but it became an obsession.?

Al-Mansour says he and the prince flew from country to country as he
introduced the prince to heads of state. ?It was easy for me, because
I knew all the presidents.?

Mum on Relations with Obama

Al-Mansour deflected several attempts to get him to answer direct
questions about his relationship with Obama and the Percy Sutton
revelations it reported Wednesday.

?In respect to Mr. Obama, I have told him, because so many people are
running after him, and when stories get printed they usually get
distorted and then he has to spend a lot of time trying to unravel
them ? and then after the experience of Rev. (Jeremiah) Wright whom
I?ve never met, but I?ve followed the media coverage ? I was
determined that I was never going to be in that situation. I never
discuss Barack Obama,? al-Mansour said.

?I wish him the best, and hope he can win the election, and if he wins
the election, that he adopts this campaign for education,? he said.

Al-Mansour wants Obama to launch an education and program? for black
and Hispanic students, using his rock-star popularity to motivate
young people, parents, and teachers to improve achievement standards.

Percy Sutton Revelations

Al-Mansour said is is aware of Percy Sutton?s revelations that
identified him as raising money for Obama?s law school education when
the presidential candidate was 25.

?But I?ve never confirmed it,? he said. ?What you have since I?ve been
out of the country is bloggers saying this is the new Rev. Wright ? in
drag! and he is a nationalist, racist, and worse than Rev. Wright. I?m
not getting into that. Any statement that I make would only further
the activity which is not in the interest of Barack, not in the
interest of Percy, not in the interest of anyone. For the bloggers to
not even have the courtesy to call me to ask what?s happening is a
clear sign to me. There?s no need. There?s no benefit. So why do it??

Asked specifically whether he had ?spotted? Barack Obama while he was
an undergraduate at Columbia as a promising student he wanted to help
get into Harvard Law School, al-Mansour pleaded a faulty memory.

?I give a lot of speeches on college campuses, in the US and abroad.
So I meet people all the time?. But I can?t say that I remember that.?
Nor would he confirm or deny that he had called Sutton, as Sutton
reveals, asking him to help Obama get into Harvard.

?I?m not going to say that,? al-Mansour said. ?That lends itself
regardless of the answer and regardless of the truth to the type of
sensationalism that I don?t consider productive to the goals that I
have. I don?t see how this will promote education. I don?t see how
this will promote a global respect. I don?t see how it deals with the
basic issues we?re faced with in the country. I try to limit my
comments to those kinds of issues, to avoid the tendency of the press
to sensationalize both positive and negative.?

[Editor's Note: Read the Newsmax Article ?Obama Had Close Ties to Top
Saudi Adviser at Early Age? Go Here Now:
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.html
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