Obama Fires Adviser Who Met With Hamas
By Don | May 9, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama fired a Middle East policy adviser after he admiitted he regularly met with the terrorist organization Hamas.
Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.
Even though Malley said he met with Hamas as part of his job and not on behalf of the Obama campaign, the link will no doubt raise some eyebrows since Obama had pledged earlier that as president he would negotiate with Iran who like Hamas is no friend of Israel.
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