Posted on 10/11/2008 9:20:01 AM PDT by ETL
From the Associated Press, via MSNBC, Dec. 31, 2007
(notice NO mention of Obama-Odinga connection! Obama aggressively campaigned for the Marxist thug, who publicly claims Obama is his 'cousin'!)
AP: Deadly Kenya protests could get worse
With death toll at 135 already, opposition wants 1 million in streets
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22440430/
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Up to 1,000 killed in Kenyan crisis: Odinga
AOL India Editorial
Last Updated: January 07, 2008
Nairobi, January 7: Up to 1,000 people may have died in more than a week of riots and post-election violence in Kenya, opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Monday.
The head of the African Union (AU), Ghanaian President John Kufuor, is due to land in Nairobi on Tuesday. Odinga said Kufuor could begin chairing talks on Wednesday.
Odinga called off nationwide protests by supporters to create a "peaceful atmosphere" for the talks while his rival President Mwai Kibaki summoned parliament to meet on Jan. 15.
The imminent arrival of the AU chief was a "major, major breakthrough" and "very significant move", Odinga told Reuters.
Odinga rejected an official government death toll of nearly 500 and said "closer to a thousand" people may have died.
The government says 486 died and 255,000 were uprooted in the turmoil that followed Kibaki's disputed re-election.
Aid workers say the toll could go much higher after one of Kenya's worst crises since independence from Britain in 1963.
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Odinga, who turned 63 on Monday, faces a dilemma of responding to international pressure to avoid provoking more violence while also maintaining momentum to oust Kibaki.
http://www.aol.in/news/story/2008010710489019000001/
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From the website 'Atlas Shrugs', October 10, 2008:
TREASON: OBAMA'S TACIT SUPPORT FOR ODINGA'S VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEADER IN KENYA
UPDATE: Footage of Obama and Odinga campaiging together in Kenya. (hat tip Bill)
Jerome Corsi is back from Kenya and he confirms everything I have been reporting about Obama and Odinga since January 2008. Obama supported a vicious killer to overthrow the duly elected President of Kenya. The Odinga strategy exploited "anti-Kikuyu sentiments," clearly a racial strategy aimed at inflaming long-standing tribal animosity to gain electoral advantage for Odinga".
Why would Obama support the exploitation of ethnic violence and murder? To further his own Obamaodinga career? To position himself to "save the day"? Isn't this the same malevolent, anti-American, me-me-me subterfuge that Obama tried in Iraq? His private attempt to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence was sabotage, treason even. His objective was to keep our boys in Iraq until he became President so that he could position himself to take credit "for bringing our boys and girls home" when he he was vehemently against the surge and advocated surrender and defeat in Iraq. This Mansourian candidate depends and wishes for, advocates for American failure.
This is the currency in which he trades - bad for America is good for Obama. ..."
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html
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The Kenya Connection [Barack Obama, Raila Odinga]
New York Sun ^ | January 10, 2008 | DANIEL JOHNSON
Whether Mr. Odinga [Raila Odinga] has ordered his men to commit murder and arson is unclear. But his own background does not exactly suggest enthusiasm for democracy and the rule of law. Mr. Odinga's father, Oginga Odinga, led the Communist opposition during the Cold War and Raila Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany.
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In August 2006, Mr. Obama visited Kenya and spoke in support of Mr. Odinga's candidacy at rallies in Nairobi. The Web site Atlas Shrugs has even posted a photograph of the two men side by side. More recently, Mr. Odinga says that Mr. Obama interrupted his campaigning in New Hampshire to have a telephone conversation with his African cousin about the constitutional crisis in Kenya.
What should Americans make of Mr. Obama's Kenyan connection? If he has been putting tribal or family considerations above America's national interest by supporting Mr. Odinga's anti-Western candidacy, it raises serious questions about his judgement.
At the time of his visit in 2006, President Kibaki's spokesman complained that Mr. Obama was behaving like a "stooge" of Mr. Odinga — which was at best undignified for a visiting American senator, and at worst unwarranted interference in the internal politics of another country.
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/kenya-connection/69273/
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January 8, 2008
Odinga says Obama is his cousin
Split picture Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga (l) and US presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama (r) Mr Obama (r) is descended from the same Luo tribe as Mr Odinga (l)
Odinga on Obama
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Mr Odinga told the BBC's The World Today that Senator Obama's father was his maternal uncle.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
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From Atlas Shrugs:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html
"...this hasn't even gotten into the relationship between Obama and Raila Odinga, yet another politician who ran on the 'hope & change' theme while utilizing criminal ties, who would then stage a violent and bloody uprising when national elections didn't go his way. Somehow we don't hear much about the nightly phone calls between Sen. Obama and Raila Odinga these days..."
Kenya's first truly free and fair democratic election was in December 2002, won by Mwai Kibaki and a multi-ethnic coalition party NARC (National Rainbow Coalition). One of the leaders of that coalition was Raila Odinga.
Kibaki didn't give him positions in the new government that he felt were important enough, so Odinga formed an opposition party, ODM (Orange Democratic Movement, orange the symbol color of opposition).
When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire.
Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days.
Kenya's 37 million people are divided up into over three dozen tribes and sub-tribes, but the two dominant ones are Kikuyu and Luo. Kenyan politics since independence in 1963 has essentially been a duke-out between them.
The father of Kenyan independence and president until 1978 was Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. His main political opponent was Oginga Odinga, known as "OO," a Luo and Raila's father.
While Kenyatta was pro-West and sided with America in the Cold War, OO [Oginga Odinga, Raila's father] was a Communist who was aided and supported by the Soviet Union.
That's why Raila went to school in [communist] East Germany (born in 1945, he graduated from Magdeburg University in 1970), and named his first-born son after Fidel Castro.
Thus it likely won't shock you to learn that Raila has now made a deal for support from the Soviets' successors as world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Moslem fundamentalists.
The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya.
It pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila's election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two. Read them all, and be sure you're sitting down. Here's a sample:
b) Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions.
c) With immediate effect dismiss the Commissioner of Police who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists to oppress the Kenyan Muslim community.
g) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions."]
Again, read all of them, for others are just as bad or worse.
It may also not surprise you that Raila is not Moslem himself, but claims to be a practicing Anglican. Only a minority of Luo are Moslem (most are Christian). Kenya on the whole is Christian, with 80% of Kenyans either Protestant or Roman Catholic, while only 10% are Moslem.
And here is the biggest non-surprise: Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a "close personal friendship" with Barrack Hussein Obama Junior.
When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi:
Much more at:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html
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MUST SEE VIDEO OF OBAMA IN KENYA CAMPAIGNING FOR MARXIST THUG/"COUSIN" ODINGA!!!
2 minute version:
"Barack Obama and Raila Odinga -- Did the Illinois senator violate the Logan Act in campaigning for his 'genocidist' cousin's bid for the Kenyan presidency?"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1P_P8lBCsE
8 minute version:
"Barack Obama & Raila Odinga"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related
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Raila Odinga's official website:
Your "Agent of Change", "Register For Change", "Vote For Change"
http://www.raila07.com/
Id you see this......? There is hope as long as there is life (voters left).
I certainly did see it. While the media may do nothing with it, there is always this pesky internet thingy.
Did you see this?
Can you?
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Psst. Paging Hannity. You will love this one. Sorry, I don’t know yet how to reduce graphic sizes.
http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/16/image019.jpg
Try this on for size:
Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN) - January 18, 2008
UPDATE:KENYA Obama’s uncle trapped by violence The U.S. presidential hopeful’s relative eschews favors, saying he wants to deal with crisis ‘’like any other Kenyan.’’
U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s uncle has been a prisoner in his own home, trapped by postelection violence that has left more than 600 dead.
Said Obama, 41, lives in this western city, near a slum that has been a flashpoint for violence. Police shot and killed four people there Wednesday while trying to prevent thousands of rowdy protesters from entering the city center.
“Yesterday I was confined to my house; it was just too dangerous to go out,” Obama said. “I could hear bullets around the place so I stayed put and listened to the radio for news.”
Most of Barack Obama’s other relatives in Kenya, including his 86-year-old grandmother, Sarah, live in a rural area nearby that has been unaffected by the violence.
Kisumu, on the banks of Lake Victoria, is a stronghold of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who accuses President Mwai Kibaki of stealing the Dec. 27 elections that local and international observers say was rigged. Odinga called for three days of protests across the country beginning Wednesday.
“These days you have to be scared because you don’t know what will happen next,” Said Obama said. The streets were largely deserted Thursday.
After election results were announced last month, protesters torched buildings and looted shops. Police opened fire in Ksumu; hospital records show 44 people were shot and killed.
Barack Obama called Odinga and said he urged all leaders to tell their supporters to resolve the situation peacefully. His advisers say he also has discussed the crisis with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
As for Said Obama, he said, “I don’t want to pull the Obama card. We have a problem in Kenya and I want to live it like any other Kenyan, not as Obama’s relative.”
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The Kenyan police seemed to ratchet up the pressure against demonstrators and others on Thursday, arresting a freelance photographer for the New York Times and a Japanese photographer.
Tensions have risen since a Kenyan TV crew on Wednesday filmed a police officer in Kisumu killing an unarmed demonstrator. There also were reports of ethnically driven fighting in the slums ringing Nairobi, the capital, on Thursday.
Police officials defended the use of force and said mobs carrying gasoline had been sighted in Nairobi’s business hub on Wednesday. Police shut down the central business district.
Copyright (c) 2008 Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities
New video of Nobama’s trip to Kenya and of him campaigning for odinga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eVVVKFHu0
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