No strings?

NOT.

Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, reported that in 2006, someone at The Harvard Crimson wondered if something was up: No Strings Attached? [on Alwaleed's $20 million gift to Harvard]

Today, this delicate dance is no longer necessary:

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But it does explain why Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal would first contact Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Manour who would then contact Harlem lawyer Percy Sutton to wield his influence at Harvard to get Obama in.

Harlem lawyer Percy Sutton – whose clients included Malcolm X – explained that Islamic radical Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, “one of the world’s wealthiest men,” asked him to write a letter of recommendation to Harvard Law School for then relatively unknown Barack Obama.

In the video, Sutton says he was introduced to Obama by al-Mansour, a Saudi citizen, who “was then raising money” for Obama.

Sutton described al-Mansour as being from Texas, saying al-Mansour was the “principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men,” most likely Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

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The media's direct intervention to PREVENT a proper vetting of candidate Obama -- LA Times Withholds Video of Obama Toasting Former PLO Operative at Jew Bashing Dinner -- meant that the deal was sealed.

All these machinations mean there were some pretty high stakes involved.

Getting a friend of Islam in the White House was only the beginning.