Posted on 10/14/2008 10:00:56 PM PDT by xjcsa
About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.
[snip]
The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.
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Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf.Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
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Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," [Obama] declared.
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Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins.
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Hey, don't you think Odinga should return the favor and do the courtesy of campaigning stateside for Obama in these last few weeks?
This is the 50 gallon drum of whup a*s that McCain needs to open.
thanks for the ping Lucy.
Here’s the link to an interesting document of Odinga’s party...listing strategy, list of donors including ‘friends of Senator BO’ - Dick Morris pro-bono etc.
ODM document
January 20 2008 at 4:26 PM P.M.
INTERNAL MEMO
FROM: SHAKEEL SHABBIR (CAMPAIGN RESOURCES ACCOUNTING SECTION)
TO: HON. O. MAGARA (NATIONAL TREASURER)
SUBJECT: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OFF CAMPAIGN FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
DATE: 9TH NOVEMBER 2007
INCOMING RESOURCES
(DONATION CONVERTED TO KSHS)
http://www.network54.com/Forum/204096/thread/1200846405/last-1200846405/ODM
I bet they are.
Amazing how Obama's Chauncey Gardener style emissions wreak mayhem wherever they are babbled.
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New Report just in: Kenyan Politicians Took Part in Election Violence (Update1)
By Eric Ombok
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — The violence that erupted after Kenya’s presidential election in December was both spontaneous and pre-planned with the involvement of politicians, Judge Philip Waki, chairman of the Commission into Post-Election Violence, said.
link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=ak0S6hJ4oj_A&refer=africa
From the site you hi-lighted:
‘Use ODM agents on the ground to engineer ethnic tensions in target areas’
You could be more specific. Apparently, Jerome Corsi now has e-mails showing that not only did Obama support Odinga in the Kenyan election, but that Obama advised Odinga to claim fraud and to encourage rioting among his supporters should Odinga lose - which was the case.
The Washington Times and the NY Post are doing the job the media is supposed to do, report the truth about candidates. But unfortunately for every Washington Times and NY Post reader there are hundreds of subscribers and readers of left wing papers such as the Washington Post, the NY Times, LA Times, Atlanta J&C, and virtually every big city paper in the US except a very few such as the two mentioned and maybe the Pittsburgh paper whose name I can't remember.I have always known that the MSM is automatically in the tank for every liberal Democrat who runs for any office any time anywhere, but it's never been this blatantly obvious before the stealth Muslim BARRACK HUSSEIN Obama came on the scene.
When B. HUSSEIN Obama first came on the national political scene I thought my nephew was exaggerating when he said that he's a communist and a Muslim. But now I agree with him that if B. HUSSEIN Obama is not a communist he's at least a full fledged socialist, which is just Communist Lite, and also a stealth Muslim who for political purposes has disguised his true religious beliefs for the last 20 years. If he's elected, which appears to be a foregone conclusion now, the deluded American people will be in for the most trouble we have ever been in before.
McCain has bought the lie that the American people don't like negative campaigning, but the facts are that like it or not they usually elect the candidates who use it.
I believe that an aggressive real conservative like Duncan Hunter would be all over B. HUSSEIN Obama's case with this kind of factual information if he had been nominated. There is more than enough factual information out there now to defeat HUSSEIN in a landslide if it was fully exposed to the voters, but a moderate loser like McCain will never let it see the light of day. Moderate RINOs brought this impending disaster onto the US, and I for one am through with the GOP as long as the RINO faction chooses it's nominees. That's assuming that there will be elections in the future, which may be an incorrect assumption if B. HUSSEIN becomes our Mullah in Chief.
Ping from LucyT.
Thanks.
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