Six Degrees: Bacon to Hinchey to Osama

As promised, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon connecting activist/actor/musician Kevin Bacon, to conspiracy theory-spouting liberal congressman Maurice Hinchey, to terrorist mastermind and head of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.

It goes something like this:

1. Kevin Bacon is a co-founder of moveon.org.
2. Hinchey signed a letter supporting moveon.org's attempt to run an anti-Bush commerical.
3. Hinchey is the featured speaker for an International ANSWER rally on March 19, 2005.
4. A key member of the steering commitee of International ANSWER is the national Muslim Student Association, which has had at least one chapter raise money for recognized terrorist groups.
5. The MSA is a front group of the the radical Wabbabist sect of Saudi Arabia most closely associated with al Qaeda.
6. al Qaeda's Wahhabi leader? Osama bin Laden.