A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy after a group trying to illegally enter Texas threw rocks at officers near downtown

A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy after a group trying to illegally enter Texas threw rocks at officers near downtown El Paso, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

The shooting, which happened Monday evening beneath a railroad bridge linking the two nations, drew sharp criticism from Mexico, where President Felipe Calderón said Tuesday that his government "will use all resources available to protect the rights of Mexican migrants."

Calderón rejected "the disproportionate use of force on the part on U.S. authorities."

It was the second death of a Mexican at the hands of Border Patrol officers in less than two weeks, and the case threatened to swell into a full-blown international incident as U.S. and Mexican officials traded suggestions of misconduct.

The boy's family said he was not trying to cross the border.

Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua attorney general's office, said a spent .40-caliber shell was found near the body — raising the question of whether the fatal shot was fired inside Mexico, although he didn't explicitly make that suggestion. That would violate the rules for Border Patrol agents, who are supposed to stay on the U.S. side of the border.

A U.S. official, meanwhile, said video shows the Border Patrol agent didn't enter Mexico. The official said on condition of anonymity that the video also shows four people who seem to be Mexican law enforcement officers walking across the dry but muddy bed of the Rio Grande to the U.S. side, picking up an undetermined object and returning to Mexico near the area where the boy's body was. Like their U.S. counterparts, Mexican law officers aren't authorized to cross the border without permission.

According to the U.S. authorities, Border Patrol agents on bicycle patrol were responding to a group of suspected illegal immigrants being smuggled into the U.S. near the Paso Del Norte bridge from Juárez about 6:30 p.m. Monday.

One suspected illegal immigrant was detained on the levee on the U.S. side, the FBI said. Another Border Patrol agent detained a second suspect on the concrete bank.

Other suspects ran back into Mexico and began throwing rocks, said the FBI, which is leading the investigation because it involved an assault on a federal officer.

At least one rock came from behind the agent, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said.

The agent told the rock throwers to stop and back off, but the rocks continued. The agent fired his weapon several times, hitting one person who later died, said the FBI. The agent was uninjured, Simmons said.

Chihuahua state officials released a statement Tuesday demanding a full investigation into the death of the teenager, identified as Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka.

The boy was shot once near the eye, Sandoval said. Sandoval said he couldn't comment on the video reported by the U.S. official because he didn't know anything about it.

Sandoval said investigators were questioning three teenagers who were with the victim at the time of the shooting.

The boy's sister, Rosario Hernandez, said that her brother was playing with several friends and didn't plan to cross the border.

"They say that they started firing from over there and suddenly hit him in the head," she said Monday.

His mother, Maria Guadalupe Huereka, told Milenio TV in Mexico that her son had gone to visit his brother, who handles luggage at a border customs office. While there, he met up with a group of friends, and they decided to hang out by the river, she said.

"That was his mistake, to have gone to the river," she said. "That's why they killed him."

She said that he ran and hid underneath one of the bridge's pillars upon hearing gunfire.

"He was a boy, and even then they killed him," she said. "I ask that they punish them. \u2026 They left me without anything."

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said it "energetically condemns" the shooting and demanded "an expeditious and transparent investigation of the facts and, if applicable, punishment of the guilty."

"Mexico is aware of the existing risks in the region, but, according to international standards, lethal force must be used only when the lives of people are in immediate danger and not as a dissuasive measure," it said.

The department said its records indicated the number of Mexicans killed or wounded by immigration authorities rose from five in 2008 to 12 in 2009 to 17 so far this year, which isn't yet half over.

T.J. Bonner, president of the union representing Border Patrol agents, said rock throwing aimed at Border Patrol agents is common and capable of causing serious injury.

"It is a deadly force encounter, one that justifies the use of deadly force," Bonner said.

Violence in Mexico, combined with assaults on Border Patrol agents, has increased the level of apprehension agents have about their safety, Bonner said.

Less than two weeks ago, Mexican migrant Anastacio Hernandez, 32, died after a Customs and Border Protection officer shocked him with a stun gun at the San Ysidro border crossing that separates San Diego and Tijuana.

Last week, the San Diego medical examiner's office ruled that death a homicide.

Weather Underground and FBI Agent Larry Grathworl

You need to meet Bill Ayers, Close friend of our beloved President Obama. This as seen through the eyes of FBI Agent and former member of the Weather Underground.


He was told by Bill be may need to get rid of about 25 million Americans who just can't be reeducated or helped by our new education centers.


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Uncovered: Obama's mystery college years Tied to Ayers' group, extremist groups operating on campus

Posted: June 11, 2010
12:00 am Eastern

No official or unofficial records were ever made available. No college transcripts, published records, or even contemporary newspaper announcements about his education have been released.

Obama remarkably relates in his autobiography "Dreams from My Father" that, beginning at Occidental, he surrounded himself with an assortment of radicals, socialists, Marxist-Leninists, Maoists and communists.

Obama, however, provides neither names nor clues.

"The Manchurian President" uncovers a slew of radicals with whom Obama associated during his college years.

SDS founder

It was at Occidental that Obama first engaged in community activism, delivering what has been described as the first political speech of his career. On Feb. 18, 1981, Obama addressed students gathered outside Coons Halladministration building, exhorting Occidental's trustees to divest from South Africa.

Obama writes in "Dreams" about the rally in which he took part, reportedly led by the Black Student Alliance and Students for Economic Democracy.

Tom Hayden at 2004 Democratic National Convention

Obama agreed to deliver the opening remarks for the rally, for which, he writes, "the agenda had been carefully arranged beforehand." In the middle of his speech "a couple of white students" were to come onstage, "dressed in their paramilitary uniforms," to drag him away. "A bit of street theater, a way to dramatize the situation for activists in South Africa," Obama writes.

Students for Economic Democracy, or SED, was a national student advocacy group established by soon-to-be California State Representative Tom Hayden, now a professor at Occidental, and his former wife, actress Jane Fonda

Hayden authored the 1962 "Port Huron Statement," the first official political manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS – the radical 1960s protest movement from which Ayers' Weathermen terrorist organization splintered.

An example of Hayden's brash rhetoric dates to his December 1968 testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on the Chicago "anti-war protests."

At the committee, a portion of Hayden's SDS manifesto was read:

"Disobey your parents: burn your money: you know life is a dream and all of our institutions are man-made illusions effective because YOU take the dream for reality. … Break down the family, church, nation, city, economy; turn life into an art form, a theatre of the soul and a theatre of the future; the revolutionary is the only artist. … What's needed is a generation of people who are freaky, crazy, irrational, sexy, angry, irreligious, childish and mad: people who burn draft cards, burn high school and college degrees; people who say: "To hell with your goals!"; people who lure the youth with music, pot and acid; people who re-define the normal; people who break with the status-role-title-consumer game; people who have nothing material to lose but their flesh. …"

When asked if this was "the way to have a better America," Hayden called them "beautiful sentiments."

The official mission statement for Hayden's SED, for which Obama delivered a major speech, espouses socialist ideology:

"Economic democracy means that ownership and control will be spread among a wide variety of public bodies: city, state and Federal governments, churches, trade unions, cooperatives and community groups, small business people, workers and consumers."

Hayden later was a founding member of Progressives for Obama, a matrix of radicals who supported Obama's presidential candidacy.

Meanwhile, "Manchurian" relates Obama's involvement with the anti-apartheid movement, which sparked a firestorm of activism at Occidental.

Political mentors

The book rejects as unlikely speculation from various media outlets that two Occidental professors, Roger Boesche and Eric Newhall, served as Obama's political mentors at the time.

Instead, "Manchurian" finds the most likely candidate to be Occidental professor Gary Chapman, whose background includes "military service, academic research and organizational experience."

Chapman's political organization and campaign experience also includes "peace issues" with the New American Movement, or NAM. The lineage of NAM is associated with that of the Democratic Socialists of America. NAM also is identified as a "splinter group" of Hayden's and Ayers' SDS.

Appeared with Columbia activist, Ayers

Obama has revealed almost nothing about his last two years as an undergraduate at Columbia University's Columbia College.

Columbia University

Obama has said he was involved with the Black Students Organization, which emerged in the 1960s in response to a growing black student population at Columbia. Undergraduates formed the Student Afro-American Society, "which was concerned with the affairs of black students and issues of the greater black community."

The Coalition for a Free South Africa, or CFSA, began as a Black Students' Organization committee to promote Columbia University's divestment in stock in companies doing business in South Africa.

CFSA, which split from the Black Students' Organization in 1981, was a loosely structured group with a predominantly black steering committee of about a dozen individuals who made decisions by consensus, and a less active circle of about fifty students who attended meetings and the group's protests and educational events."

Early CFSA leaders were Danny Armstrong, a Columbia College student who played forward for Columbia's basketball team, and Barbara Ransby, a student from the School of General Studies

As CFSA spokeswoman, Ransby famously convinced Columbia's student senate "to support full divestment."

Ransby, now an associate professor of African-American studies and history at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the executive director of Public Square, was in the class of 1984 at Columbia, only one year behind Obama, who would later publicly appear with both Ransby and Ayers.

In April 2002, Ransby appeared at a University of Illinois-Chicago forum and sat on the same panel – "Intellectuals in Times of Crisis: Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations" – with both Obama and Ayers.

Obama knew FCC chief from Columbia activism?

Another name that emerges from Obama's involvement with the Black Students' Organization and Coalition for a Free South Africa is that of Julius Genachowski.

In October 2008, Genachowski, co-founder of the venture capital firm LaunchBox Digital, was described as "an adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama."

Obama and Genakowski were later Harvard Law School classmates.

In August 2008 it was reported in the New York Times that Genachowski, who led the Obama campaign's technology working group, was also a big fundraiser. Genachowski raised at least $500,000 as an Obama "bundler."

In March 2009, Obama nominated Genachowski to chair the Federal Communications Commission, and he was sworn in June 29, 2009.

Book uncovers radical nexus

Along with a chapter on Ayers, "The Manchurian President" includes an extensive investigation into Obama's own background. The work uncovers, among many other things, Obama's early years, including his previously overlooked early childhood ties to a radical, far-left church connected to Ayers' ideology.

Obama's associations with the Nation of Islam, Black Liberation Theology and black political extremists are also revealed, with extensive new information on the subjects.

Also detailed are Obama's deep ties to ACORN, which are much more extensive than previously documented elsewhere. The book crucially describes how a socialist-led, ACORN-affiliated union helped facilitate Obama's political career and now exerts major influence in the White House.

"The Manchurian President" contains potentially explosive information not only about President Obama but also concerning other officials in the White House, including top czars and senior advisers Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod.

"The Manchurian President" also exposes how Obama's health-care policy, masked by moderate populist rhetoric, was pushed along and partially crafted by extremists, some of whom reveal in their own words that their principal aim is to achieve corporate socialist goals and a vast increase in government powers.

"I believe this work is crucial to Americans from across the political spectrum," says Klein, "including mainstream Democrats who should be alarmed that their party has been hijacked by an extreme-left fringe bent on permanently changing the party to fit its radical agenda.

"Indeed, this book will document, with new information, Obama's own involvement with a socialist party whose explicit goal was to infiltrate and eventually take over the Democratic Party and mold it into a socialist organization," Klein claims.

Klein began investigating Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and broke major national stories. He first exposed the politician's association with Ayers in a widely circulated WND article.

The story prompted the Nation magazine to lament, via the CBS News website, that "mainstream reporters now call the Obama campaign to ask about Klein's articles."

It was in a WABC Radio interview with Klein that Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to Hamas, "endorsed" Obama for president, generating world headlines and sparking controversy. Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and Obama repeatedly traded public barbs over Hamas' positive comments.

Klein was among the first reporters to expose that Obama's "green jobs" czar, Van Jones, founded a communist organization and called for "resistance" against the U.S. government. The theme was picked up and expanded upon by the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck, leading to Jones' resignation last September.

Co-author Brenda J. Elliott is a historian, author and investigative researcher known for her blogging during the 2008 presidential election about Ayers, Tony Rezko and other controversial figures linked to Obama. Since 1988, Elliott has been responsible for a number of historical projects, has won an award by Project Censored for her work and has been named "One of the Intriguing People" by Central Florida magazine.

The introduction to "The Manchurian President" relates: "Barack Obama is backed by and deeply tied to an anti-American fringe nexus that, as this book will show, was instrumental not only in mentoring Obama and helping him to build his political career, but essentially in overthrowing the moderate wing of the Democratic Party and in securing and powerfully influencing Obama's presidency.

"As will be seen, these radical associates not only continue to influence Obama and White House strategy, but some are directly involved in creating the very policies intended to undermine or radically transform the United States of America."

The moment workmen accidentally blew up a Texas gas pipeline, leaving one dead and seven injured

One worker was killed and seven others injured when an underground gas pipeline exploded in rural Texas, sending a massive fireball into the air.

The pipeline exploded after it was accidentally ruptured by utility workers digging to build a new power line.

Authorities found the missing worker's body yesterday, several hours after the explosion at Cleburne, Johnson County, about 50 miles southwest of Dallas.

The wide area of land affected by the natural gas line explosion in Cleburn. The large line erupted on Monday after utility workers accidentally hit the line, officials said

The worker had been driving a truck and drilling holes for utility poles when the line suddenly exploded, and other workers lost sight of him in the intense smoke, according to Roger Harmon, Johnson County's top elected official.

Authorities had initially hoped the man, whose name was not released, had left the scene on his own, like some of his colleagues who drove themselves to hospitals.

The worker's truck was later found upside down in the charred area, with its drilling component torn off and hurled 250 feet away.

At least seven of the 13 workers at the site were taken to hospital. Two had been released and four were in a stable condition.

The condition of the remaining workers was unknown.

Fireball: Flames shoot into the air after a natural gas pipeline explosion in Texas, which killed one man and injured seven others

Flames from the natural gas line could be seen from miles around the Texas site

Laura Harlin, a resident of nearby Granbury, said around the time of the blast she heard a 'huge rumbling' that initially sounded like thunder and then like a tornado because it lasted so long.

'For about 10 minutes, it was so loud that it was like there was an 18-wheeler rumbling in your driveway,' she said.

The explosion caused confusion among officials in its immediate aftermath, with one city official initially saying three people had been killed.

Heat from the blast forced firefighters to stay about a half-mile away until the gas flow was shut off, and they were unable to douse the flames.

A work site sits abandoned and partially burnt after a natural gas line exploded into a massive ball of flame in Johnson County

A medical helicopter is used to do an aerial search at the site of a gas pipeline explosion near Bono, Texas. Right, the burning line

A control room at Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP, which owns the gas line, immediately identified a break in the line near Cleburne, company spokesman Rick Rainey said.

The 36-inch line was equipped with valves that automatically shut down gas to that section of pipe, and the fire was out about two hours after the blast.

The pipeline helps carry gas from West Texas across the state to utilities, distribution companies and commercial users.

Mr Rainey said the company would work with customers to avoid any disruption to their service from the fire.

The injured workers were digging for a subcontractor hired by Waco-based Brazos Electric Cooperative.

The blast followed a similar on in West Virginia yesterday, which saw seven workers burned when a drilling crew hit a pocket of methane gas, triggering an explosion in a rural area about 55 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.

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Hospital evacuates patients after explosion, fire at power substation

Xcel Power says it could be tomorrow before investigators determine the cause of an explosion at a substation in east Denver.

Power should be restored to more than 31,000 customers by morning, said the utility's spokesman, Tom Henley. But determining a cause may take longer than that.

"We haven't ruled out anything," he said at about 9 p.m.

Outages from the blast at 1310 Jackson St. extended from Quebec to Humboldt Streets and First to 24th Avenues.

The explosion at about 6:30 p.m. came near the end of the hottest day of the year so far, with the high temperature reaching 94 degrees, 4 degrees shy of the record set in 2006 and 15 degrees higher than normal.

The explosion caused

traffic jams at darkened traffic lights, stranded dozens of people in elevators and brought curious spectators out across much of east Denver.

Rose spokeswoman Cara Harshberger said evacuations were made necessary because backup battery power offered only limited services. The hospital moved 13 intensive-care patients to other facilities because of the uncertainty of when electricity would be restored.

The Veteran's Administration hospital also is relying on backup power.

Denver Fire Lt. Phil Champagne said firefighters in Station 15, next door to the Xcel station, were on the scene immediately after the explosion and controlled the fire quickly.

"There's a tremendous amount of damage in there," he said of the substation.

Champagne said one injury, to a worker at Rose, was reported after a second, smaller explosion at the hospital just after the substation blew up. But Harshberger said no one at the hospital was injured.

Residents nearby described two deafening explosions, then billowing black smoke that could be seen across the city.

Lori Stanton-Funk, 50, who lives across the alley from the station, had just finished dinner. She thought the first explosion was a lightning

Curious onlookers at the scene of the explosion and fire. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)

strike, "except louder." By the second explosion seconds later, her dog, Charlie, "was going nuts."

She ran outside to see flames six stories high amid the towering black smoke.

"It was intense," she said.

Julie Orth, 37, lives a half-block away and was getting her children ready for a walk when she "felt" the blasts.

"There was boom then another huge boom, then there were huge flames."

She said it smelled like burning rubber.

Eileen Piper, who lives down the street from the substation, said her son Xavier, 5, was watching TV and the power went out and he yelled "what the ...?"

Champagne said fire crews used foam to control the flames and still had some concerns about the possibility of hazardous chemicals, including cancer-causing PcBs, at the scene.

Firefighters on the scene of the fire. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)

Listen to Imam Faaruug

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Posted: June 05, 2010
11:25 pm Eastern

By Michael Carl
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is catching political heat for embracing an imam who is alleged to have preached the need to take up arms to defend the rights of Muslims.

After vowing to eliminate racial profiling and guaranteeing Muslims their civil rights, Patrick, a Democrat, hugged Imam Abdullah Faaruuq at the meeting with more than 1,000 Muslims at the Muslim American Society-affiliated mosque at Boston's Roxbury Crossing.

The newest Boston-area mosque was dedicated last year and is affiliated with the MAS, an Islamic advocacy organization that public policy group Americans for Peace and Tolerance says has known ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a controversial video on YouTube, Patrick is embracing the native Bostonian Faaruuq, who preaches at the Mosque for the Praising of Allah:

What's raising eyebrows is that the YouTube video seems to show Faaruuq urging his followers to take up arms to protest the arrest of terrorism suspect Tariq Mehanna and Faaruuq's congregation member Aisha Siddiqi.

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Mehanna was arrested last October for allegedly planning an attack at a shopping mall and Siddiqi was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill FBI agents.

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When asked about his association with Mehanna, Faaruuq said he didn't know much about the case, but knows the man.

"He went to school here in Boston, I know that he as a degree in pharmacy. I know he was an active Muslim young man. I've known him since he was very young. So what else can I know about him?" Faaruuq observed.

"I don't know much about his personal life. I've never slept over at his house or eaten with him. I've eaten with him here. I've seen how he behaves and he's very respectful," the imam continued.

"That's what I know about him so it's hard for me to believe some of the things they've said about him. I would say that I don't think he would be involved in those types of things," Faaruuq said.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick endorses imam accused of preaching taking up arms Political heat rising for embrace of controversial Islamic leader

Posted: June 05, 2010
11:25 pm Eastern

By Michael Carl
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

When asked about his association with Mehanna, Faaruuq said he didn't know much about the case, but knows the man.

"He went to school here in Boston, I know that he as a degree in pharmacy. I know he was an active Muslim young man. I've known him since he was very young. So what else can I know about him?" Faaruuq observed.

"I don't know much about his personal life. I've never slept over at his house or eaten with him. I've eaten with him here. I've seen how he behaves and he's very respectful," the imam continued.

"That's what I know about him so it's hard for me to believe some of the things they've said about him. I would say that I don't think he would be involved in those types of things," Faaruuq said.

Listen to an interview with Faaruuq:

"They have a full government. They can be involved in investigating a person's life. They might know more about him than I do," Faaruuq said.

"They let him out of jail for a year, but then some other Muslims gave some evidence against him, so I don't really know. I don't know the case well enough to speak about the case. I'm talking about the person," Faaruuq added.

The statements in question are featured in the YouTube video and were the subject of discussion on a Boston talk radio station this week. Faaruuq says his critics have singled out the references to the swords and knives.

"That's not what I said at all. I urged the Muslims to be friends and protecters of one another. I urged them to be American citizens and to take full part in what goes on in this government and this world as American citizens," Faaruuq said.

"I said, 'Take up the pen; the typewriter, the sword, the gun. You can take up a plowshare. You can become a surgeon and do everything you can to contribute to this society in a full way," the imam said.

He continued by playing down the remarks about learning how to use guns.

"The National Rifle Association is a legitimate association and no one says anything about them advocating people use guns. People who go into the United States Army are taught how to use a gun and how to use a typewriter," Faaruuq said.

"You have to be a full citizen. I advocate for people to be full Americans. Become surgeons; become firemen. Join the Navy. Learn how to defend this country and to partake in this country as a full citizen," Faaruuq added.

Faaruuq also claimed that Muslims have served in the military fighting for the United States in every major conflict since the American Civil War.

However, there are few references to Muslims in American history. Writing on the Now Public website, Chantilly, Va., writer Morris Sadek says that contrary to many recent claims, Muslims have made few if any contributions to American history.

Most of the claims about Muslims in American history are on Muslim-hosted web sites. Islam 101 says that Muslims arrived in North America over 100 years before Columbus and about 300 years before the Pilgrims.

In analyzing Faaruuq's comments, Islam expert and Jihad Watch publisher Robert Spencer says Faaruuq is using a smooth technique that masks his real meaning.

"What he's doing is using Quranic concepts that deal with jihad without explaining to you that that's what he's talking about," Spencer explained.

"For example, he said early on, that all he wanted to do was teach Muslims to be friends and protecters of one another. That is something that is in the Quran twice," Spencer continued.

"In chapter three, verse 28 and chapter five, verse 51. In 3.28 it says, 'Let not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers. If any do that, in nothing will there be help from God,'" Spencer quoted.

"In 5.51 it says, 'O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protecters; they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you who that turns to them is of them,'" Spencer continued.

"In other words, Muslims can pretend to be friends and protecters of unbelievers to deceive them in order to advance Islam," Spencer explained.

Listen to an interview with Spencer:

"Five, verse 51 specifically says that Muslims aren't to take Jews and Christians as their friends and protecters. So when he said to you that was teaching Muslims to be friends and protecters of one another, he's actually telling you that he's telling them to cut off from the larger society, to have contempt for it and to work to replace the laws and customs of the society they are in with Islamic law," Spencer explained.

Spencer says the Imam's comments about Tariq Mehanna are an admission that he was Mehanna's spiritual leader.

"I would certainly think that to speak with such obvious affection and regard for this man in such detail, I think it's clear that they had some kind of a close relationship, certainly," Spencer stated.

Spencer adds that Faaruuq's words encouraging Muslims to be active in society have another meaning.

"When he was saying that all he was saying is that Muslims should be active in society, and there were certain ways to do that, by the pen, by the sword and by the gun, and that's the statement that got him in trouble with 96-9 (one of Boston's three talk radio stations), that those are different forms of jihad," Spencer observed.

"There is no doubt that in Islamic theology there is jihad of the pen and jihad of the sword and those are distinct from one another. Yes, they all have the same goal, the goal is to impose Islamic law over the society in question," Spencer added.

However, there is more.

"What the guy is telling you is that he is preaching jihad. And he just knows that his non-Muslim hearers are not going to understand what he's saying when he's just putting it in terms of just being active in society and just working for justice by the pen and by the sword," Spencer explained further.

"Since he's hearkening back to these concepts, then the context of what he's saying becomes clear," Spencer stated.

"His followers will hear what he's saying and they will understand it in terms of what they've been taught and what they know about Islamic theology. They will understand it as meaning that he's telling them to strive hard in the way of Allah. In other words, he's telling them to wage jihad," Spencer said.

Spencer added that he believes that Patrick's endorsement of Islam at the recent mosque gathering is likely the product of political naivete.

Patrick's office refused comment saying, "We're not going to make any statement on this issue."

Obama, extremist cronies dragged into light for world to see 'Manchurian President' exposé breaks through to No. 10 on NY Times list

Posted: June 05, 2010
9:08 pm Eastern

© 2010 WorldNetDaily



A blockbuster book exposing President Obama's extremist background and outing the radicals crafting White House policy has skyrocketed on the coveted New York Times bestseller list.

"The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's ties to communists, socialists and other anti-American extremists," rose to No. 10 on the New York Times list. The literary indictment debuted on the list at No. 22 upon the work's release two weeks ago week and has been jumping ranks ever since.

The book also topped the esteemed Publishers Weekly bestseller list.

As WND has reported, the book has also been a huge hit with the online book retailer Amazon.com.

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Two weeks ago, "The Manchurian President" climbed all the way to the No. 1 position on both Amazon.com's "Hot New Releases in Politics" list and its "Hot New Releases in Non-Fiction" list. The book also grabbed the top spot among bestsellers in the Politics category and ranked third among all non-fiction titles sold by the retail giant.

"The Manchurian President" is the result of two years of solid investigations into those within Obama's inner circle as well as the president's shadowy younger years.

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With more than 800 citations, the brand-new, autographed title from WND senior reporter and WABC radio host Aaron Klein bills itself as the most exhaustive investigation ever performed into Obama's political background and radical ties. Klein's co-author is historian and researcher Brenda J. Elliott.

Among the many finds of "The Manchurian President":

* A coalition of extremists, including a founder of William Ayers' Weathermen domestic terrorist organization, helped craft Obama's "stimulus" bill.

* Obama's health-care policy, masked by moderate populist rhetoric, was pushed along and partially crafted by extremists, some of whom reveal in their own words that their principal aim is to achieve corporate socialist goals and a vast increase in government powers.

* Extremists are among Obama's "czars" and other top advisers. New information links top advisers David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett to communist activists. The book uncovers correspondence in which a communist confesses to mentoring and educating Axelrod and helping the top Obama aide to secure his first job. Obama then later worked with the same communist, the book finds.

* Evidence shows in 1995 Obama was a member of the socialist New Party, which sought to infiltrate the Democratic Party to ultimately mold it into a socialist-leaning organization. Perhaps more startlingly, the book reveals how New Party founders are currently helping to craft White House legislation.

* Copious research reveals more about Obama's deep ties to Ayers, uncovering for the first time where and how Obama first met Ayers – and it is much earlier than previously believed.

* Important aspects of Obama's carefully covered-up college years, with new details of his student career at Occidental College and later at Columbia University are revealed.

* Obama's early years, including his previously overlooked early-childhood ties to a radical, far-left church are documented.

* Obama's associations with the Nation of Islam, Black Liberation Theology and black political extremists are also revealed, with extensive new information on the subjects.

* Obama's deep ties to ACORN, which are much more extensive than previously documented elsewhere are covered. The book also crucially describes how a socialist-led, ACORN-affiliated union helped facilitate Obama's political career and now exerts major influence in the White House.