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Did Barack Obama help Kenya prime minister Raila Odinga raise funds? - 10/14/08
The answer to that is... it could happen. See this. One of the debunkings of that claim that I've seen is that the "fact checkers" [1] couldn't find a $1 million transfer from the Obama campaign to Odinga, and that there's no such thing as the "Friends of Senator B.O." However, the wording at the first link implies that it wasn't a transfer so much as Obama facilitating donations from others directly to Odinga.
However, before you get too excited, see this email supposedly from Obama:
"I will kindly wish that all our correspondence [be] handled by Mr Mark Lippert. I have already instructed...
Kenya admits Jerome Corsi was detained due to his political activities - 10/09/08
On Tuesday, 'Obama Nation' author Jerome Corsi was detained in Kenya just before holding a press conference to discuss his book and discuss his investigation of links between Barack Obama and Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The original explanation was that his work permit had been lost. Despite the fact that that was such an incredibly obvious sham that most kindergarteners could see through it, almost all Obama supporters who discussed this either bought the Kenyan government's line, or tried to retail it to their readers.
Now comes this from the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation:
Jerome...
Jerome Corsi detained in Kenya after investigating Barack Obama links to Kenyan president - 10/07/08
Jerome Corsi - author of the best-selling book Obama Nation and someone that the Barack Obama campaign subsequently smeared - has been detained in Kenya. The official word is apparently that he hasn't been detained, but Corsi says his passport has been taken. He and his publicist apparently haven't been charged with any crimes, and contrary to other reports he hasn't been deported; he was scheduled to leave the country today. The officials may have picked him up after "losing" his work permit.
Corsi traveled to Kenya to discuss his book and also to investigate Barack Obama's ties to that...
Latino, black activists form coalition - 08/17/07
Chicago Tribune/Antonio Olivo/[[February 21, 2007]]/ link