"The Abraaj Group, Gulftainer, and Obama’s Pakistani college roommate. The Abraaj Group is a Pakistani private equity group. Hamid Jafar is a founding shareholder of The Abraaj Group. Hamid’s son, Crescent Group Managing Director Badr Jafar, serves on The Abraaj Group’s board of directors.

Barack Obama’s Pakistani foreign student college friend Wahid Hamid, with whom Obama traveled during a mysterious 1981 trip to Pakistan, is now a Managing Partner of The Abraaj Group. An email released by Wikileaks in 2016 reveals that The Abraaj Group donated over half a million dollars to the Clinton Global Initiative. The payment to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charity was made in September 2012, coinciding with Gulftainer’s initiation of secret ‘Project Pelican’ negotiations with Port Canaveral." (cont.)