Hmmm…copied this article, then I noticed when it was filed. Mockingbird media time: 4:46 AM EST

Few Details Known About Obama’s Three Weeks in Pakistan

By Patrick Goodenough | November 3, 2008

"In the early 1980s, a Palestinian ideologue named AbdullahAzzam’s Peshawar center was known as the Afghan Bureau. His deputy and financier was a Saudi named Osama bin Laden. Azzam is regarded by many scholars as having laid the ideological groundwork for modern-day jihad. After his assassination in a 1989 bomb blast, bin Laden took over the bureau and developed what would become al-Qaeda."

"How much – if anything – the 19- or 20-year-old Obama knew about the Afghanistan jihad during that 1981 visit is unclear."

"Raman continued, “As I read about Obama’s visit to Pakistan in the 1980s, I could not help thinking of dozens of things. Of the Afghan jihad against communism. Of the fascination of many Afro-Americans for the jihad. Of the visits of a stream of Afro-Americans to Pakistan to feel the greatness of the jihad. Of their fascination for Abdullah Azzam …”

https ://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/few-details-known-about-obama-s-three-weeks-pakistan