From the article:
“The President’s aunt says when she was a girl in Kenya in 1961, the President’s father, her brother, sent the family a letter announcing the birth of his son, the future President. She says the letter came from Hawaii.
“’My brother was telling my mother how happy he was he had another baby boy on the other side,’ said Onyango.”
If Zeituni was age 61 when she died, she was born circa 1953 and would have been 8 years old when Barry was born and the alleged letter announcing his birth reached the family in Kenya.
A deposition of Zeituni regarding the claims she makes as reported in this news account 50 years after the fact would need to explore what she personally remembered about this 1961 birth announcement at age 8 as to who shared this news with her at that time. To what extent did she personally know BHO Sr., who explained to her that Sr. bigamously had a new wife. Kezia claimed to have no knowledge of any bigamy until years later, IIRC, and didn’t know about marriage to Ruth either until after an auto wreck when Ruth showed up, too.
Cross-posting from the Zeituni Obit thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3142258/posts?page=36#36
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/01/obama-aunt-zeituni-onyang_n_374965.html
“Onyango helped care for the president’s half brothers and sister while living with Barack Obama Sr. in Kenya. She moved to the United States in 2000 and applied for asylum in 2002, but her request was rejected and she was ordered deported in 2004.”
Insertion of Mal-Val narrative claims by Fred Nerks with no aupport anywhere:
“Yep. There she goes, the eye witness. She was nanny to the two boys Mark and the mythical ‘David’ and Auma, before the kenyan was killed in 1982.”
My Seizethecarp comment:
Fred Nerks has correctly seen that if Zeituni had been a baby-sitter in the home of Sr. and Ruth and IF the Mal-Val narrative that Roman (born Jan 1961) was there, she would have noticed that Baby David didn’t exist, that Mark was the younger boy (the lighter boy as claimed by FN) and that the older, darker boy was being raised by Sr. and Ruth.
Zeituni does not mention in any interview that I have seen a boy older than Mark with an unknown, non-Kenyan, non-tribal mother who has somehow inserted into Ruth Baker’s maternal care with no explanation as to who his mother is and what her relation to BHO Sr. would have been.
But Zeituni, who aggressively refutes “lies” about her family says nothing to refute Mark and David being Sr.’s two boys with Ruth and says nothing to indicate that they were not exactly who Mark and Ruth say they were.
The Huffpo article says Zeituni babysat “the president’s half-brothers and Auma.”