How dare they point fingers at Bill Ayers relation with Barrack Obama, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS

John McCain Fundraiser Supported Known Terrorists

It appears that one of John McCain's big fundraiser's has admitted to donating money to a known terrorist organization... for seven years...

The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

Wait a minute. Colombian? I thought "terrorist" was a synonym for "Muslim" or "black Chicago preacher."

Carl H. Lindner Jr., the billionaire Cincinnati businessman, was CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001, and remained on the company's board of directors until May 2002. Beginning under his tenure, Chiquita executives paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC), which is described by George Washington University's National Security Archive as an "illegal right-wing anti-guerrilla group tied to many of the country's most notorious civilian massacres."

Hold on there, cowboy. "Right-wing"? "Anti-guerrilla"? That don't sound like terrorism to me. That sounds like just a bunch of plucky freedom fighters trying to rid the world of liberal, atheist communism.

Following a Justice Department indictment last year, Chiquita admitted to illegally funding the paramilitaries and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. Chiquita's payments to the AUC began in 1997 and lasted seven years; roughly half of the funds came after the group was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 2001.

Well, if that's how they're gonna define what terrorism is, then I don't see what the big deal is.

And I don't see any problem with Lindner fundraising for John McCain's terrorist organization.

when did you find out and how

A Chiquita Banana Republic?

i heard about this a long time ago

but you are leaving out the part that

it was protection money (given under deress)

to avoid bad things from happening to the business interest

of the company he was working for

this article is like saying that store on the corner that pays the local mobster protection money is a member of the mob

lets report the rest of the story

not just the part that best fits your agenda