We've seen how Obama's political colleague, Muslim-backed Kenyan extremist, Raila Odinga, used violence and massacres to force his way into the Prime Minister's post after he lost last year's presidential election to Mwai Kibaki.
Meanwhile, American writer Jerome Corsi, who's just published a book critical of barack Obama, was forcibly detained last week in Kenya, held incommunicado for many hours, and thrown out of the country under extremely suspicious circumstances. It now appears that Kenyan officials detained Corsi at gunpoint so as to forestall Corsi revealing at a news conference what he’d learned of “Barack Obama's unexplored political connections with a repressive regime.” ("Kenya's Corsi caper").
The revelations are believed to have included facts about now-Prime Minister Odinga.
According to Joseph Farah at WorldNet Daily, (where Corsi is a senior staff reporter), there was no justifiable reason to accuse Coris of violating immigration laws during his visit:
Corsi made no secret of his mission in Kenya. He announced his intentions upon arriving in the country. He disclosed on his customs forms the purpose of his business trip. He met with some of the nation's top officials, sharing with them his objectives. He didn't travel around the country covertly. His every move was watched. Operating in a potentially unsafe environment, he understood there was more safety in the light than in the shadows.
Everything went just fine until it was time to announce his findings at a press conference. That's when Kenyan authorities determined it would be just too much for their prime minister to be implicated in wrongdoing on Kenyan soil.
I'm not sure what their intentions were when they grabbed Corsi on Tuesday. I'm not sure if they expected to release him a few hours later. I'm not even sure if they were thinking that far ahead. The important thing, it seems, was to stop him from holding that press conference.
I can tell you that many thousands of dollars in bribes had to be paid to officials to get them to release Corsi and his traveling partner and publicist, Tim Bueler. What would have happened if that money had not changed hands? We'll never know.
I can also tell you that all of the major media accounts of the critical events leading up to Corsi's release were inaccurate and biased in ways that were astonishing to me as a journalist.
By way of example of this weak reporting, the AP reported Corsi’s detention this way on October 7th:
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The American author of a best-selling book attacking Barack Obama as unfit for the presidency was being deported from Kenya on Tuesday, a criminal investigations official said.
Jerome Corsi, who wrote "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," was picked up by police Tuesday for not having a work permit, said Carlos Maluta, a senior immigration official in charge of investigations.
He was briefly detained at immigration headquarters before being brought to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for deportation, said Joseph Mumira, head of criminal investigations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. (“Kenya deporting US author of anti-Obama book”).
Note how easy the AP goes on such reporting fundamentals as “how” and “why?” It seems enough for the AP to merely point out that Corsi had written a book critical of Obama, and was therefore detained and deported after a criminal investigation. Hey, the crime of criticizing Obama in Kenya speaks for itself, right?
According to Corsi’s own account of it, which he told to Farah by cell phone as soon as he was let go, he was “held without food, stripped of his passport and cell phone and denied the opportunity to make any calls or talk to the press.”
Nor, apparently, was he allowed to talk to anyone from the American Consul. No visit from the Consul or comment by them is mentioned in any of the stories, though Corsi's detention was being reported almost as it was happening, so someone at the consulate had to have had notice of it. I’d like to know where they were in all this?
Nonetheless, it appears that law-enforcement based Barack Obama Truth Squads are active on at least two continents. (So far no detentions reported in Missouri).
Much as I hate to say it, it is looking increasingly possible that Obama is going to be our next President. If Odinga and his thugs are a sample of the kind of friends he’s been promising to make for us around the world, then God save us all.
And what are Obama and Odinga so worried about coming to light?
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Obama's Kenya Connection, Part I
A Washington Times article on Sunday, ("Obama's Kenya ghosts"), reveals that Barack Obama has close links to a Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga. Odinga had the backing Kenya’s Muslim leaders in the presidential election last December, though he went on to lose by more than 230,000 votes. Within hours of the loss, Odinga’s supporters commenced murderous attacks on their countrymen, including a massacre of Christians in the village of Eldoret on New Year’s Day, 2008. Fifty Christians were locked into their Assemblies of God church and burned alive, or hacked to death by machetes if they attempted to escape the flames.
According to Mark Hyman:
By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
Who is Odinga? He’s a member of “Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.” He represented the Orange Democratic Movement Party in last year’s election against the winner, re-elected President Mwai Kibaki.
According to Hyman:
This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist. He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.
Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.
Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statute of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.
Someone else backing him was Barack Obama. Dating back to 2004, Obama has had several personal meetings with Odinga here in the U.S. Then in 2006 Obama traveled to Kenya for six days to actively campaign on behalf of Odinga. Not surprising, Obama’s stump speech for Odinga included declarations that “Kenyans are now yearning for change.”
Obama denied that his reason for going to Kenya was to boost Odinga's campaign, "but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise."
Odinga also tried to deceive the public about his strong Muslim backing:
Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.
President Kibaki attempted to meet with all opposition leaders in January 2008 in an effort to bring an end to the post-election violence. Odinga refused to attend. Eventually, Odinga’s campaign of violent opposition was rewarded when President Kibaki offered him the Prime Minister office—the No. 2 spot—in his government, in exchange for an end to the attacks. Odinga was sworn in this April 2008.
Continued . . . .
According to Mark Hyman:
By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
Who is Odinga? He’s a member of “Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.” He represented the Orange Democratic Movement Party in last year’s election against the winner, re-elected President Mwai Kibaki.
According to Hyman:
This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist. He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.
Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.
Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statute of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.
Someone else backing him was Barack Obama. Dating back to 2004, Obama has had several personal meetings with Odinga here in the U.S. Then in 2006 Obama traveled to Kenya for six days to actively campaign on behalf of Odinga. Not surprising, Obama’s stump speech for Odinga included declarations that “Kenyans are now yearning for change.”
Obama denied that his reason for going to Kenya was to boost Odinga's campaign, "but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise."
Odinga also tried to deceive the public about his strong Muslim backing:
Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.
President Kibaki attempted to meet with all opposition leaders in January 2008 in an effort to bring an end to the post-election violence. Odinga refused to attend. Eventually, Odinga’s campaign of violent opposition was rewarded when President Kibaki offered him the Prime Minister office—the No. 2 spot—in his government, in exchange for an end to the attacks. Odinga was sworn in this April 2008.
Continued . . . .
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