Obama names White House counsel as Islamic envoy http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32926.html#ixzz0fS9QsC6t

Reaching out to Muslims around the world, Barack Obama used a taped video address Saturday to make the surprise announcement that Rashad Hussein, deputy associate White House counsel, will serve as a special U.S. envoy to the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

Obama made the announcement about his pan-Islamic overture to delegates at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, an annual event hosted by the Saban Center at Brookings and the Government of Qatar.

comment-this is how hes reaching out to muslims around world?thru saban center at brookings?whata slap in the face to all muslims.some backround on saban center at brookings...Dennis Ross is also connected thru saban center at brookings Saban Center for Middle East Policy - Brookings Institution http://www.brookings.edu/saban.aspx

Haim Saban is an Israeli-American media-mogul, one of the biggest contributors to the campaigns of pro-Israel politicans in the U.S. and has been described by a New York Times reporter as a "tireless cheerleader for Israel."http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Haim_Saban

In 2002, Haim Saban pledged $13 million to start a research organization at the Brookings Institution called the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. To put this Policy Center into perspective one should note:the Brookings Institute is the principal Democratic Party think-tank and all issues, and it is a place where "politicians in-waiting" can bide their time until the next election.Haim Sabban is a large media mogul, with large interests in the US, and his company is the largest broadcaster in Germany (owns "ProSiebenSat.1 Media, putting him in control of a company that owns the rough equivalent of CBS, ABC, TBS and Nickelodeon")Saban says "I'm a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel".http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brookings_Institution

Sam Husseini, Brookings - The Establishment's Think Tank, Extra!, FAIR, http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1436

strobe talbott the man behind Obamas main think tank brookings,is also a rhodes scholar and was roommate to bill clinton at oxford.Under clinton he received a norman cousins global governance award(world federalist association) https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFImLBcwW0bc-pRUofLIVX4RUWq7Y-5GOJcTpTWctPT2__ccNnz6O0YBtEhK_lZqUF4Vp6Jrr7y2Fwu2ShJkMKioK7GXrjccrexuOfh5rVNWrwe0bm6wXErUO1zeGxMa6Mrvlh1FyiOuz/s1600-h/Letter.gif Strobe Talbott received the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award (World Federalists) for his 1992 TIME article, “The Birth of the Global Nation http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=PowerEliteExposed the people behind this award are world federalist association.In 2004, the World Federalist Association changed its name to Citizens for Global Solutions http://www.globalsolutions.org/wfi The World Federalist Association (WFA) - initially the United World Federalists - was created in Asheville, North Carolina, in November of 1947. Its mission was to "work to create a world federal government with authority to enact, interpret and enforce world law adequate to maintain peace." Under the leadership of national figures such as Oscar Hammerstein, Norman Cousins, E.B. White, and University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins, UWF secured 111 co-sponsors for a bill in favor of a strengthened United Nations in the U.S. Congress, and succeeded in getting twenty-three state legislations to pass resolutions in support of world federation. Other early achievements included a campaign to establish the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1961), a campaign for U.S. support of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1969) and active support of negotiations on a Law of the Sea Treaty (1970's.) From the late 1980's on, WFA was a leading supporter of a treaty to create an International Criminal Court, culminating in the creation of the treaty in Rome, August, 1998, where World Federalists played a key leadership role in organizing backing for the ICC by the NGO community.