200 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyAIHAM ALSAMMARAE OF MESOPOTAMIA
Alsammarae’s ability as a con man carried him all the way to a meeting with George Bush in the
White House.
Alsammarae moved to Chicago in the 1970s and met Rezko while attending engineering school.
Reports indicating the Combine’s corruption extended to the electricity minister in Iraq began
in mid-summer 2005. On July 29, 2005, Sandra Jones reported in Crain’s Chicago Business:
“Rezmar ... controlled by Tony Rezko, a controversial confidant of Gov. Rod Blagojevich,
entered into a joint venture with a British firm in a $150-million deal to build a power plant in
Iraq.” (Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com)
Paul Bremer, the leader of the notoriously corrupt Coalition Provisional Authority, appointed
him minister of electricity in August 2003. Alsammarae was photographed at a White House
ceremony in the Oval Office on September 22, 2003, at which Bush called him a “good soul,” who
“inherited a system of a corrupt tyrant.” (Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com) Bush met Alsammarae,
but Obama cannot be sure about his own track record:
During a March 14, 2008 interview with the Sun-Times, Obama was asked: “Did you ever meet
Nadhmi Auchi or Dr. Aiham Alsammarae?” “I have to say I do not recall meeting them. It’s
been reported that a dinner Tony hosted at the Four Seasons, I don’t have the exact date, so I
don’t know whether it was the before November ‘04 when I hadn’t been elected but had already
won the primary or whether it was after the election, in which I was... “Tony called and asked
if I could stop by because he had a number of friends that he had invited to dinner and he
wanted to meet them. “I told him that I would be happy to come by if my schedule allowed it.
And it did. Although I couldn’t, I think, stay for dinner, so I remember meeting a bunch of
people who I had not met before. I frankly don’t remember what their names were. “Business
was not discussed at the meeting. It was more of a social meeting and they asked me questions
about the senate race and so forth and so on. “I have no specific recollection. They may have
been there. I can’t say unequivocally that I did not meet them, but I just don’t recall.”’ (Evelyn
Pringle, opednews.com)
Again, these answers by Obama are as interesting for the technique of evasion as they are for the
factual situation they refer to.
OBAMA’S PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR GRAFT IN ACTION
At the end of June 2008, when Obama believed that he already had the Democratic presidential
nomination locked up, the Boston Globe published a limited hang out investigative report on graft
and corruption involving public housing and related issues in Chicago. This series was valuable for
the first-person accounts it offered of the immense human suffering and despair left behind in the
wake of the looting operations championed by Obama. It is also remarkable that Obama still
maintains that the Chicago model of public-and private partnerships (PPPs), despite its blatant and
scandalous failure in the Windy City, is the model he wants to bring to Washington to be applied to
the entire United States. The PPPs represent catastrophic public policy, and probably also embody a
sleazy payback by the Perfect Master to the various shady characters that have contributed to his
campaign fund, and now want to feed at the federal trough.
The Boston Globe evokes Obama’s archipelago of despair in graphic terms: