Found another BRIDGE connection:

From http://

www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/closer_look_at_obamas_pakistan.htm

"In retrospect, this makes one wonder whether the Indonesian leg was real or contrived. Obama’s most serious biographer, David Remnick, sheds little light on it.

In “The Bridge,” Remnick tells how Obama first visits his friends Hamid and Chandoo in Pakistan during Ramadan “and then to Indonesia to see his mother and Maya,” a three week trip in all. "