IV. Apprenticeship with Foundation-Funded Terrorists: Ayers and Dohrn 157The Tony Rezko trial opened the door to more Board Game cases not yet tried and more
Combine members threw in the towel. Ali Ata, the former director of the Illinois Finance
Authority, entered into a plea agreement on April 22, 2008... Ata pled guilty to charges that
included tax fraud, and lying to the FBI in saying he received nothing in return for $50,000 in
contributions to Blagojevich when according to the plea agreement, he did “receive something
for those contributions, specifically employment with a state agency ... with an annual salary of
approximately $127,000.” The agreement notes that Ata met with Blagojevich, not Rezko, in
2000 or 2001, and Blagojevich asked for his support because he was contemplating a run for
higher office. Ata testified that he held his first Blagojevich fundraiser in the 1990s when he
was asked to raise money for Blagojevich’s run for Congress within the Arab community. Ata
made a $5,000 donation to Obama on June 30, 2003. Talat Othman was also appointed to this
Board, and he donated $1,000 to Obama on June 30, 2003. David Gustman was made chairman,
and his wife, Lisa, also gave Obama $1,000 on June 30. Ata is a former president of the
Chicago Chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He represents “a
deeper corruption” in the Arab American community, “an aspect of the story that has not
received much attention,” according to a May 2, 2008 report by Ray Hanania in the Southwest
News-Herald. Hanania points out that many in the Arab community are calling Ata a “rat.” But
he’s not alone, Hanania says: “The real rats are those who used their positions as “leaders” to
rape and pillage their own community. The real rats are the so-called “leaders” who worked to
benefit themselves pretending they were doing it for the benefit of the community.” In his
report, Hanania explains how Ata and others would often gather at a “hookah” café on Harlem
Avenue, where they helped organize political dinners attended by Arab Americans from the
Southwest suburbs at which politicians where “honored.” “These Arab community leaders,” he
says, “would tell the community that if they bought tickets to their candidate’s nights,” their
organization fundraisers or donated through them to local politicians, these politicians would
respond by giving the Arab American community empowerment.” “They said the politicians
would give the Arab Americans a voice in their governments,” he reports. “In truth,” Hanania
says, “these political leaders lied.... They did get jobs, contracts and clout,” he notes, “but the
people who benefited were not members of the community but rather the relatives, children,
friends and business associates of these leaders.” (Pringle, “Curtain Time for Barack Obama -
Part IV,” op-ed news)
Here again, the narrow and divisive identity politics purveyed by the Ford Foundation reveals its
bankruptcy: it creates a thin layer of rich exploiters, while leaving the majority of each ethnic group
worse off than when they started.
THE ROBERT MALLEY AFFAIR AND THE SOROS-BRZEZINSKI
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
Obama’s relations with the Middle East agent community were also illuminated by the Robert
Malley affair. Robert Malley worked for the International Crisis Group, which is heavily funded by
George Soros and has Zbigniew Brzezinski on its board. With this, we know everything we need to
know about the International Crisis Group: its operatives do not want peace in the Middle East, but
rather mobilization of the Arabs and Moslems against Russia and China in the framework of
Brzezinski’s apocalyptic vision of confrontation. Robert Malley’s father Simon Malley was born in
Cairo to a Jewish-Syrian family. He moved to France in 1969, where he founded the pseudo-left
journal Afrique Asie; the name was changed to L’Economiste du Tiers Monde in the 1970s. This
was supposedly radical third world nationalist, but gave ample scope to Fanon and the future Pol