Anti-Obama author detained in Kenya
Barack Obama’s ancestral homeland is probably not the best place to go around talking about the candidate’s Muslim ties, un-American background, and secret “black rage”: The American author of a best-selling, controversial book blasting White House hopeful Barack Obama faces deportation from Kenya after being detained by security officials, police said on Tuesday. Jerome ...
Barack Obama's ancestral homeland is probably not the best place to go around talking about the candidate's Muslim ties, un-American background, and secret "black rage":
Barack Obama’s ancestral homeland is probably not the best place to go around talking about the candidate’s Muslim ties, un-American background, and secret “black rage”:
The American author of a best-selling, controversial book blasting White House hopeful Barack Obama faces deportation from Kenya after being detained by security officials, police said on Tuesday.
Jerome Corsi, who was scheduled to unveil “The Obama Nation” to the Kenyan public at a Nairobi hotel, was briefly detained in the capital Nairobi early Tuesday, officially for “visa-related issues.”
Kenyan officials deny that the decision to deport Corsi was politically motivated, though the author had announced plans to “expose deep secret ties between between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and a section of the Kenyan government leaders.”
Much as Obama supporters might be loving this, Corsi’s deportation is only going to create about 23 new conspiracy theories.
(Hat tip: Chris Blattman)
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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