January 28, 2009
Report: Obama Began Talking to al Qaeda Months Ago
Okay, I'll go ahead and link this since it's getting so much buzz. But Ronin and I both agree that the report sounds like it could be a) BS or b) based on something relatively benign and, to borrow a phrase from the British Left, "sexed up".
Obama's alleged "unofficial dialogue" through "Arab intermediaries" is so vague that it could mean anything, really. The implication here is that Obama, even during the election, was trying to reach out to al Qaeda to reach some sort of accommodation or truce. But that "dialogue" could be nothing more than PR and the "intermediaries" could be nothing more than the media -- ie, Obama's been trying to win the hearts and minds of radical Muslims through the Arab media for some time now, not just in his al-Arabiya interview.
Then again, like I said, it could be just BS. Any one know anything about the "World Tribune"?
Barack Obama was working with Arab intermediaries to establish an unofficial dialogue with Al Qaida long before his election as the 44th U.S. president, according to a report in the upcoming weekly edition of Geostrategy-Direct.comSo, B.S. or intentionally misleading hype to sell a few more papers? Because the alternative is just too difficult -- and scary -- to believe.
