Hamas isn't the only terrorist organization that endorsed Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 race for the presidency of the U.S.

Leading jihadists from multiple other terror groups also recently sounded off about the Illinois senator and a slew of other topics in a blockbuster book – Schmoozing With Terrorists – which takes readers into the viper's den of Islamic extremism.

WND's Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein made world headlines last month after a top Hamas official, Ahmed Yousef, told him he "hopes" Obama becomes president and compared the Illinois senator to President John F. Kennedy.

"We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections," said Yousef.

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"I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse. ... I do believe [Obama] is like John Kennedy, a great man with a great principle. And he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with humiliation and arrogance," Yousef said, speaking from Gaza to Klein and WABC Radio's John Batchelor.

Find out what other leading jihadists had to say about Obama in Klein's Schmoozing with Terrorists," in which a Jewish reporter meets his sworn enemies.

The Jerusalem Post stated in a recent review of "Schmoozing": "For those under the sway of the Western media, many of the frank (proud, even) revelations, motivations and goals offered by Klein's subjects will come as a very rude awakening."

"Most of the book's attraction is to be found in the very spectacle of a single Jew – albeit accompanied by an intrepid interpreter – arranging to be totally alone and at the mercy of armed killers who want nothing more than to see him and all his people dead. It's like watching a mouse interviewing a series of snakes.

"And perhaps that very novelty explains why Klein is still alive, and why so often his subjects dropped many of the polished lies and half truths they usually feed the media," wrote the Jerusalem Post.

The American Thinker hailed "Schmoozing" as "enlightening and highly readable."

"Klein's conversations covered the gamut from why Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades endorse the use of homicide bombing in light of the Quranic ban on suicide; to the way in which the terrorist leaders nakedly reject documented archeological and historical connections between Jews and Israel; to the ongoing persecution of Christians by Muslims in Bethlehem, Gaza and other cities," reported American Thinker.

"Klein's style is conversational and personal: he never hides his own perspective or the fact that he is an Orthodox Jew (albeit the brawny, deeply-tanned 20-something year old pictured on the book jacket inside cover does not fit the typical stereotype in this country).

"And yet those whom he interviews, although occasionally bridling at some of Klein's questions, are perfectly comfortable meeting with him and articulating their views and goals."