[ April 26, 2024 ]
Newsmax is reporting that the Federal Election Commission is finally investigating the story I broke back in 2008 on all of the improper campaign contributions, foreign money and illegal donations to the Obama campaign. Newsmax cites Ken Timmerman's article, but I broke the story that Timmerman writes about (all posts here), and it was well documented in my book: The Post American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America.
Obama’s 2008 campaign finance records are full of riddles, mysteries, and unanswered questions. Contributing nearly $25,000 to the Obama campaign was Monir Edwan, who was listed on FEC documents as contributing from the city of Rafah in the state “GA.” Georgia? No – there is no Rafah in the Peach State. Monir Edwan sent money to Obama from Rafah, Gaza.
Rafah is a Gaza refugee camp.
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The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) “prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly. It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them. Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.”[i]
Yet no one has found it noteworthy that Barack Hussein Obama himself appears to be in violation of this statute.
According to the FEC, contributions to the Obama campaign from three brothers, Osama, Monir and Hosam Edwan, all from Rafah, totaled $33,000.[ii] And they weren’t alone. Al-Jazeera reported on March 31, 2008 that Gazans were manning phone banks for the Obama campaign.[iii]
The brothers were vocal in their “love” for Obama – which in itself spoke volumes to Obama’s campaign. The media showed no interest, but Obama pricked up his ears. He smelled trouble; even though no reporters asked him about these contributions, he answered anyway. The Obama campaign contended in the summer of 2008 that they had returned $33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza – despite the fact that records do not show that it was returned, and the brothers said they did not receive any money. And indeed, Obama’s refunds and redesignations on file with the FEC show no refund to Osama, Hossam, or Monir Edwan in the Rafah refugee camp.
One of the Gazan brothers, Monir Edwan, claimed that he bought “Obama for President” t-shirts off Obama’s website, and then sold the shirts in Gaza for a profit. All purchases on the Barack Obama website are considered contributions. The brothers allegedly claimed that they were American citizens – so said the Obama camp. They listed their address with the zip code 972 (ironically, the area code for Israel) and entered “GA,” the state abbreviation for Georgia, as their location, while actually living, as we have seen, in a Hamas-controlled refugee camp. If Obama’s people thought they were dealing with American citizens from Georgia, why did they ship the t-shirts that Monir Edwan ordered to the correct address in Gaza? Shipping overseas to a Gaza refugee camp is vastly different from sending a package to the state next door.
On Watchdog.net, a site that monitors campaign contributions, Monir Edwan is listed as Barack Obama’s Top Contributor, giving $24,313 between October 27, 2007 and November 11, 2007.[iv] Intriguingly, however, although it gives zip codes and other details for the other four of Obama’s top five individual contributors, it provides no additional information at all for Monir Edwan – and Edwan’s link is the only dead one on the Watchdog page.
Why did Palestinians in a Gaza refugee camp have such love for Obama in the summer of 2008? Did they know he was going to run a jihad presidency?
Did Jamal M. Barzinji know the same thing?
Jamal M. Barzinji gave the Obama campaign $1,000.
Dr. Jamal M. al-Barzinji is a noted American businessman and political operative. He has most recently been associated with, notably, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY). The IIIT is linked to the international Islamic organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood. In a May 22, 1991 document entitled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” the Brotherhood lays out a plan to do nothing less than conquer and Islamize the United States. The Brotherhood’s success in America would ultimately further the even larger goal of establishing “the global Islamic state.”[v]
The Brotherhood memorandum includes “a list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends,” with the appended note: “Imagine if they all march according to one plan!!!” Among these organizations are some of the most prominent “moderate Muslim” organizations in the U.S. today, including the IIIT as well as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); the Muslim Students Association (MSA); the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT); the Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA); the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), out of which emerged in 1994 the most prominent Muslim group in the United States, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR); the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA); and many others.
The memorandum also explains that Muslim Brotherhood operatives “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”[vi]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Jamal Barzinji also has business ties to a Muslim Brotherhood activist, Youssef Nada.[vii] And the destruction of Israel is high on the jihadist agenda. After 9/11, federal agents raided Barzinji’s office and home. An affidavit filed in federal court charges that “Barzinji is not only closely associated with PIJ (as evidenced by ties to al-Arian, including documents seized in Tampa), but also with Hamas.”[viii]
PIJ is the jihad terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Just as disturbing were the phone banks in Gaza campaigning for Obama. Muslims in Gaza methodically worked the phones in Internet cafes, calling Americans and doing everything they could to influence the vote.[ix]
When New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler was confronted with the Gaza phone banks issue while campaigning for Obama in South Florida in early November 2008 said that if there “really were phone banks in Gaza, that would be a major campaign issue.” He said it would be all over the media and be a major problem for the campaign. And he laughed at the idea that Obama was receiving campaign contributions from Gaza. The mainstream media laughed along with him, continuing its refusal to cover this explosive story.
If there had been just one questionable tie, one link to jihadist entities, one link to groups advocating the destruction of Israel, Barack Obama might have merited the free pass he got from the mainstream media about this. But there were so many.
And to this day they have never been explained.
[i] Federal Election Commission, “Foreign Nationals,” July 2003. http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml
[ii] “Obama’s Gazan Contributions,” AtlasShrugs.com, July 31, 2008; Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes,” American Thinker, August 14, 2008.
[iii] Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g.
[iv] http://watchdog.net/p/barack_obama.
[v] Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085, U.S. vs. HLF, et al. P. 7-8 (21-22).
[vi] Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085, U.S. vs. HLF, et al. P. 7 (21).
[vii] Glenn R. Simpson, “Tangled Paths: A Sprawling Probe Of Terror Funding Centers in Virginia,” Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2004.
[viii] “Muslims in fed terror probe making donations to Obama,” WorldNetDaily, August 29, 2008.
[ix] “Gaza’s Obama campaign,” Al-Jazeera English, March 31, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g.
I started my investigation back in July 2008, and came up with "donors" like this:
The name: Hbkjb, jkbkj
City: Jkbjnj
Works for: Kuman Bank (doesn't exist)
Occupation: Balanon Jalalan
Amount: $1,077.23
On July 30th, 2008, I posted Obama's Anonymous Foreign Donors and Other Bizarre Illegal Activity, where I found 500k donated by "not employed" people.
On July 31st, 2008: Obama's Contributors: Good Will? Loving you? UPDATE: Doo da DooDa and the contributions from Gaza.
OBAMA LIED: "Palestinian" Campaign Contributions NEVER RETURNED OR REFUNDED
OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS: I SEE FAKE PEOPLE … OVER THE LIMIT
Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes American Thinker
Tom Blumer of Bizzy Blog on the Obama's campagin fraud here.
Barack Obama raised a record-shattering $750 million on his way to winning the 2008 presidential election. But that stunning flood of cash has triggered an investigation by the Federal Election Commission, which is taking a detailed look at the campaign's records and transactions.According to Roll Call, the audit of Obama's financial records began two years ago. It was not required by law, since the Obama campaign did not accept federal matching funds and funded itself entirely with private donations. But allegations of improper contributions, coupled with the FEC's suspicions of certain transactions, led to the probe.
Obama recently officially launched his 2012 campaign effort, and a representative there admitted to Roll Call that a review was under way.
"The FEC is conducting a routine review — as is true with the McCain campaign, the Romney campaign and many others — to determine if they have any questions with the information reported," Katie Hogan, deputy press secretary for Obama's re-election campaign, told Roll Call. "Given that there was an historic number of contributors and contributions — nearly 4 million and over 9 million, respectively — this takes time."
In October 2008, Newsmax's Ken Timmerman reported that questions about the source of Obama's amazing fundraising were already swirling around. He reaped a stunning $150 million in campaign donations in September of that year, bringing his total at the time to more than $600 million.
By Obama’s own admission, more than half of his contributions have come from small donors giving $200 or less. But unlike John McCain’s campaign, Obama won’t release the names of these donors.
A Newsmax canvass of disclosed Obama campaign donors shows worrisome anomalies, including outright violations of federal election laws.
For example, Obama has numerous donors who have contributed well over the $4,600 federal election limit.
Many of these donors have never been contacted by the Obama campaign to refund the excess amounts to them.
And more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency.
According to a Newsmax analysis of the Obama campaign data before the latest figures were released, potential foreign currency donations could range anywhere from $12.8 million to a stunning $63 million in all. With the addition of $150 million raised in September, this amount could be much more.
And who can forget Obama's campaign contributions from Hamas controlled Gaza
A third brother has emerged from the Palestinian donation cache for Obama. His name is Osama. I previously broke the story of Monir and Hosam Edwan. There is a third brother: Osama.
Osama Edwan — another brother from Gaza. Two donations, both dated 11-10-2007, here and here.
Not only did Obama not report this jihad cash to the FEC, despite what they've claimed, the "Pali" brothers have not received their jihad cash back.
Obama’s campaign filed their 10/01/07 thru 12/31/07 “Year End” report with the FEC on 1/31/08.
On 4/15/08, the FEC sent a letter requesting additional information for 36 contributors the Obama campaign had submitted. There is an attachment to this letter with the names, dates and amounts. On this attachment, 7 of Hosam Edwan’s contributions/transactions are questioned (even though there are 10 transactions) and only 1 of Monir Edwan’s contributions is questioned (even though there were 22 contributions/transactions). The response date to this letter is May 15, 2008.
Obama’s campaign filed an Amended 10/01/07 thru 12/31/07 “Year End” report on 5/15/08.
On 7/30/08 the FEC sent another letter requesting additional information for SIXTEEN PAGES of questionable contributions/transactions. The time period covered in the amended report is the same as the first report. Now there are many more questions. Included in the questions this time are contributions/transactions for Monir Edwan, this includes the same contribution in the earlier report plus twenty more for Monir Edwan.
This can only mean that the Obama campaign failed to report the contributions of Monir Edwan in the first report. He knew.
There's another red flag in the FEC letter of July 30, 2008. They advise, “It appears that several transactions on Schedule(s) A supporting line(s) 17(a) of your report disclose the original contribution of an individual more than once.” If this is true, the Obama campaign is inflating the total of the contributions that they have received. This could have a negative impact on additional fund raising if known by the general public.
Attachments: FEC Letter 4/15/08; FEC Letter 7/30/08 and Monir & Hosam Edwan detail contributions worksheet (notations added referencing FEC requests for additional information).
Edwan Monir 
Hossam Monir
The phone banks in Gaza (see video) sure paid off.
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30 Comments
13 years ago
Does FEC v. Barry = Brutus v. Caesar?
Fingers crossed.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
13 years ago
Why are they looking into this now? It was widely know during the last presidential campaign!
13 years ago
Obama’s protective bubble is imploding…
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2011/04/someone-is-blackmailing-barack-obama.html
“Someone is blackmailing barack obama”
13 years ago
About freaking time.
13 years ago
It is also time to start watching where his 2012 campaign contributions will be coming from. Perhaps Trump will have the courage and conviction to bring this issue to light at the right moment in time.
13 years ago
There was a lot of money laundering happening on Obama’s website. On the other major candidates’ web sites, if you wanted to donate with a credit card, your name had to match the name on file for the credit card. On Obama’s web site, you could put “Mickey Mouse” or “Adolf Hitler”, and the contribution would be accepted.
Think of the possibilities for money laundering: some mafia don, drug lord, or terrorist calls him and says, “Hey, Barack, at 2 AM tomorrow, you will receive 2 million dollars on your website.” At 2 AM, the money comes through. Then, after Obama is elected, the same mafia don calls him back and says, “Hey Barack, remember me? There’s a favor I need from you…”
13 years ago
Pam – the thing I love about you is that you are TENACIOUS.
Keep it up.
Keep fighting.
We are GOING TO WIN.
13 years ago
On top of that have him disclose all of his records since he is now running for President again—and I mean every thing!!!! total background check release it all!
13 years ago
Well, the FEC is a little late to the party. But, at least they’re doing something. There’s so much info on hussein that needs to be released. That guy needs to spend some serious time behind bars.
13 years ago
Awwwww. Give The One a break. He didn’t really know where the money was coming from, someone else handled all that for him.
/sarc
13 years ago
In this documentary trailer, Avi Lipkin says Israeli intelligence picked up chatter indicating they expected to have a Muslim in the White House:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jhx_2TqffE
13 years ago
I want to know if human verification was used on the donation website, since donations under $250 were not recorded for verification. A computer program could fill in the blanks and make smaller donations several times a second. You could even build in random donation amounts under the reporting limit and use multiple credit card numbers. Let a computer program run wild, and it could donate a million dollars a day on just one computer. Tie it to a Soros funded bank account and you have millions of unreported dollars flowing in undetected.
13 years ago
Khazar shiksa Camela Geller has hemorrhoid fetish! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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13 years ago
When the left do not get thier way, they begin to eat thier own. Is this what is happening to Obama? The fact common sense and responsibility is coming back. Obama and his cronies are now being looked at and the left, because they are no longer getting 100% what they want are applying the law as a way to pressure thier agenda back onto this country.
13 years ago
What an intelectual response to a topic that obviously is above the head of this educated leftist.
13 years ago
Since I did not read Atlas until recently,
I WAS TOTALLY IGNORANT OF THIS DASTARDLY ISSUE..
13 years ago
There should actually be nothing surprising that Muslims in Gaza would help one of their brothers win the race for our White House.
13 years ago
May the power of Jesus Christ compel you! Satan be gone!
13 years ago
hey pamela, trace his ISP number
13 years ago
awww, pamela, don’t you know: “Hbkjb, jkbkj”??? EVerybody’s heard of “Hbkjb, jkbkj”!!!! 🙂
13 years ago
This may be one or two clicks removed, but reading this, I couldn’t help thinking about how this might connect to the mad dash to “recognize” a palestinian “state?” See this eye-opening article by Eli Hertz, which details collusion between the US, EU, IMF, etc. to enable a palestinian state to be built atop Israel. (Hey – they built a mosque atop the Temple, with all the financial and other help they’re getting now, building a mosque at Ground Zero and a state atop Israel is nothing! All it takes is a bunch of greedy bastards and millions of fools telling themselves, “It’s not about religion, stupid!”)
13 years ago
This story is big. Also, the story of the rampant voter intimidation and outright fraud in the caucuses (esp. Texas) could change public opinion about the Obama political machine. Very, very disturbing. Is voter fraud is going to determine the election in 2012?
13 years ago
This is the evidence that
should get Obama IMPEAHED!!!!!!!!!!!!
13 years ago
This is no new deal, Guys. Time to wake up to facts.
For too damn long, our leaders–from both parties–feed us lies. Do so, banking on our gullibility.
For too damn long, we have satisfied their expectation for our full compliance therein.
What’s more, we have done so, to our own harm.
Done so, to the empting of our coffers, for the advancing of Islam’s role in our world, nation, and schools.
Done so, empting our hearts and homes of the smiles and the laughter of our children; filling our coffins and our graveyards with the cold remains sent home to us of that that we offered up to Allah to gain—unless we become Muslim—the Allah-forbidden Islamic true friendship and alliance.
Trump/West ticket 2012—make it happen. Put an end to America led by traitors and fools.
http://theglobalrealm.com/2011/04/15/afghan-history-suppressed-al-qaeda-the-taliban-and-the-texas-oil-giants-part-ii/
http://www.hermes-press.com/BushSaud.htm
http://www.nationalcorruptionindex.org/pages/profile.php?profile_id=4
http://sheikyermami.com/2008/04/05/hesham-islam-influential-muslim-in-defense-department-cleared-of-any-wrongdoing/
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/2621-pentagon-muslim-policy-set-by-senior-adviser-with-ties-to-terrorists
13 years ago
Do you expect Palestinians to make phone calls on behalf of Obama and not donate money to him?
13 years ago
And Obama replies “cool man, anything you want . People voted for me to to bring in
“change you can believe in “
13 years ago
Awwww. Give im a break . He didn’t know he had multiple SSN numbers, multiple names
and No birth certificate to prove he could run for president.
He also didn’t know hamas , CAIR are terrorist organization , after all he is muslim
too by birth.
13 years ago
Has anything really come of this so afar? Or is this still in the talking stages? I ask because I have serious doubts that anything is going to come of this. Our legal system is, insofar as I can tell, in its death throes and unlikely to be able to handle anything like this (as it should of course be able to).
My prediction: the legal system will totally fail us and not even let this in the door. Pray that I’m wrong.
13 years ago
Agreed. It is hard to see how anything substantial will come of this. The deck is stacked in Obummah’s favor all the way around. The government is stacked with people who are covering for him because they like his agenda (and think they will have power in the dictatorship to come) and the stupid sheeple won’t accept that anything sinister is going on. Those who are supposed to be the loudest voices of dissent (media) are silent.
We are definitely toast in this country.
12 years ago
About those phone banks in Gaza working out to get these donations from Gaza, I might be missing something and maybe you guys can catch me up…
A) The video reports that this phone bank in Gaza is randomly calling numbers in America to ask for support for Obama
B) (this is the part I’m missing) These households in America, because they received a call asking them to support Obama, decide that it would be a great idea to call back to Gaza and ask random Gazans to look for some other Gazans, that the Americans have never heard of, who are selling t-shirts and will then donate the money from buying the t-shirts to Obama.
C) Obama receives donation from Gaza because of the phone banks calling people in America.
It seems that the phone banks in Gaza must be planting some subliminal hypnotic suggestion in the Americans to call Gazans and tell them to buy t-shirts. Could this be evidence that Obama had control of the CIA and mind control operations even prior to his election? Has this been looked into?
When the random Gazans receive calls back from the hypnotized Americans saying, “Must…buy…tshirt…Obama…” you would think they would just hang up because most Gazans don’t speak English. So either the CIA is able to implant foreign language knowledge into the Americans or they’ve hacked the domestic phones to transmit subliminal Arabic hypnotic suggestions. Could this be the real purpose of the domestic surveillance program? Having access to the lines for listening is one thing but perhaps the CIA is actively implanting Arabic hypnotic suggestion against terrorist activity and Obama somehow gained access to the CIA technology and implanted suggestions on casual wear purchases in calls to Gaza to benefit the his campaign?
I think there is a strong possibility that they same technology is being used on calls to Libya to suggest fashion choices to Gaddafi to make him appear foolish to the international community (and it’s working again!)
I think there is real gold in fleshing out how those phone banks connect to the donations. This is some deep stuff that could really blow up the whole Obama administration, along with uncovering some CIA technology that could be used domestically in the wrong hands. I’d love to see you look into supporting how your assertion operates and how the phone banks calling America got Gazans to but t-shirts.
