Rezko's Friend Ayham Alsammarae gives a Press Conference
Whow...no sooner do I comment to Bored Now about waiting for Rezko to talk about friend Ayham Alsammarae and Alsammarae (the guy who put up bond for Rezko) talks, and talks tough. Talisman Gate via Rezko Watch.
There’s so much vileness here that I really don’t know what to mop up first.Talisman Gate told me the fellow to the right of Blagojevich at that dinner in 2004 at the Four Seasons was Alsammarae. The other is a photo of Alsammarae at this Press Conference.
Ayham Alsammarae, Iraq’s slimy ex-Minister of Electricity under the Bremer and Allawi administrations, who had escaped from an Iraqi prison by hiring an American security company to break him out back in December 2006, has resurfaced in the Jordanian capital Amman where he gave a press conference today saying, among other things, that he hoped that the insurgency in Iraq “would continue [against U.S. occupation] and avenges the Iraqi people.”
Alsammarae, an Iraqi-American Chicagoan, added during remarks carried by Radio Sawa (Arabic link) that he had contributed the maximum allowable of $2,300 to Barack Obama’s campaign. But there’s another Obama link to Alsammarae: while serving as electricity minister Alsammarae had been involved in brokering deals in the Iraqi electricity sector for Antoin Rezko, Obama’s long-term friend and patron. Rezko is the Syrian-American hustler who was convicted of fraud in an Illinois court on the day that Obama secured the Democratic nomination.
xp Bill Baar's West Side
3 comments:
Could you at least try to explain how this impacts Illinois politics? Thanks.
I think your post of this picture of Blagojevich, Alsammarae and Nadmi Auchi back on 2006 an example of how Illinois Politics is taking on the whole world.
It's going to turn out to be a very powerful picture... a pic with worldwide impact... a local Illinois dinner with local Politicans is going to have national impact.
You quote GMH (now scrubbed from he their site),
Rod Blagojevich, Illinois governor, said that his state welcomes General Mediterranean Holding (GMH) investments, and is ready to provide the necessary means for them to succeed.
A welcoming reception was held for Mr Nadhmi Auchi Chairman of GMH, who is touring the United States.
Illinois is an important investment opportunity for big companies, said Blagojevich.
Ministers from State of Illinois, businessmen, and congressmen were also present in the dinner held in his honor.
Be nice if Springfield would tell us the list of local notables. Who else from Illinois was on the Welcome Wagon that night?
If you have an Illinois angle, put it in your post. If you don't, then don't post it. Thanks.
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