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Candidate Sending Subliminal
Messages of Comfort to Al Qaeda Terrorists
By Herm Welty, Political correspondent
February 16, 2008, Cleveland--A Middle Eastern culture expert with ties to Hillary
Clinton’s presidential campaign says the series of faked
fainting spells at recent Barack Obama political rallies are staged messages for Al Qaeda
members fighting in Afghanistan.
Obama’s message to the terrorists: I will help you.
Duke Forrest, a Middle Eastern Studies professor at
the University of Arkansas, released an e-mail Friday afternoon outlining
the charges. E-mails were sent to media outlets in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Texas.
The e-mail describes a series of well-publicized
fainting episodes at six Obama rallies. In each, an Obama supporter swoons
in front of a stage while the candidate speaks to the crowd.
Using the same cryptic phrase, "We have someone in
trouble over here, does anyone have any water?” Obama tosses a bottle of
Zephyrhills purified water to a nearby aide.
According to Forrest, Koranic law forbids Muslims
from refusing water to a stranger. It is also technically illegal in most
Muslim countries to sell water.
“By offering these fainters water, Obama is sending
a definitive message that he prescribes to Muslim culture and theology,”
Forrest said Friday afternoon outside Wright Air Force Base in Ohio.
Forrest had attended a closed-door meeting between
Clinton and various defense contractors.
“The act of throwing a commercial brand of water is
also a symbolic rejection of Christianity and capitalism,” he added. “To
people like Osama Bin Laden and his followers, this message is quite
clear.”
Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams said Friday
night that Duke currently has no official ties to the campaign.
“His theory is what it is,” said Williams. “Hillary
may not agree with it, but she’ll defend to the death his right to say
it.”
Forrest is no stranger to political controversy.
As a foreign relations consultant for the Clinton
Administration in the 1990s, Forrest hatched a plan to bomb baby formula
factories in Muslim countries in response to terrorist attacks on U.S.
embassies in Africa.
The secret plan was abandoned after the first
bombing created a political firestorm for the president.
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