OBAMA ACCEPTS 'OSAMA BIN LADEN' DONATIONS
Using a Pakistani Internet Protocol and proxy
server, a disposable credit card and a fake
address, “Osama bin Laden” has
successfully donated twice to Barack
Obama’s presidential re-election campaign.
The “Bin Laden” donations, actually made
by WND staff, included a listed occupation
of “deceased terror chief” and a stated
employer of “al-Qaida.”
“Bin Laden” is currently set up on the
official campaign website to contribute
more to Obama’s campaign. The name is
also registered as a volunteer.
Since the “foreign” contribution was sent,
“Bin Laden’s” email address has received
several solicitations from Obama’s
campaign asking for more donations.
“Bin Laden” is currently set up on the
official campaign website to contribute
more to Obama’s campaign. The name is
also registered as a volunteer.
Since the “foreign” contribution was sent,
“Bin Laden’s” email address has received
several solicitations from Obama’s
campaign asking for more donations.
The apparently foreign-based contributions
were conducted as a test after a flurry of
media reports described the ability of
foreigners to donate to the Obama campaign
but not to Mitt Romney’s site, which has
placed safeguards against such efforts.
The acceptance of foreign contributions is
strictly illegal under U.S. campaign finance law.
One $15 donation was made at
BarackObama.com using a confirmed
Pakistani IP address and proxy server. In
other words, as far as the campaign website
was concerned, the donation was openly
identified electronically as coming from
Pakistan.
Upon clicking the “donate” button, WND
staff selected the $15 amount and were taken
to a page on the campaign website asking
for a first and last name, city, state, zip code,
email address and phone number.
The information submitted was: “Osama bin
Laden, 911 Jihad Way, Abbottabad, CA
91101.”
While the website only has options for U.S.
states and zip codes, there is no mechanism
in place on Obama’s website to verify the
individual is actually located in that state or
zip code, or even in the U.S.
The Obama campaign refuses to release the
identification of donors who give less than
$200
In the case of this donation, the 91101 zip
code is real but corresponds to Pasadena,
Calif., and not Abbottabad, the Pakistani
city in which bin Laden was found holed up
in a compound.
For a requested phone number, WND
inputted the White House information line of
(202) 456-2121.
The email address used to set up the
donation account was
osama4obama2012@gmail.com.
After clicking “next,” the website asked for
an employer, occupation and a password to
set up future donations. WND staff entered
the occupation as “deceased terror chief”
and the employer as “al-Qaida.”
The transaction was made last Friday with
the use of a disposable credit card. The
website did not require the card’s security
code.
