Thread: Devastating? WA Times: BO ties to Muslim Extremists

This story is about to break wide open.
Read this very carefully folks, its chilling

10/12/08 "Obama's Kenya ghosts: (Washington Times) Obama's Odinga Connection & Campaign Efforts Exposed

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.

The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.

By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

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.

Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.

The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist. He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.

Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.

Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statue of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.

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.

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," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.

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. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, "Barack Obama's father is my maternal uncle."

President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.

Mr. Obama's judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/ ... ya-ghosts/

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http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/ ... ya-ghosts/

Absolutely amazing. I am speechless.

Nothing Obama does/ is affiliated with surprises me anymore. He is pure evil puke.

Yet he isn't a muslim and we shouldn't be scared of him as president We are just being totally irrational..

Obama's "Teach America" program is from Bill Ayers, the Chicago education professor and former terrorist. Ayers teaching is social rebellion and social justice. Evil Capitalism...good socialism.

I doubt serious Obama's supporters will even give this a second thought.

An interesting item found in the comments section following that article.

Seems that the Kenyan government was none too pleased with Obama interfering in the domestic affairs of their government while acting in his official capacity of US Senator.

And Obama was told as much, formally and in writing


MOREOVER, THE STANDARD'S SEPTEMBER 2, 2006 EDITION (http://www.eastandard.net/archives/?mnu=... ) CARRIED A STORY ABOUT THE KENYAN GOVERNMENT'S PROTEST TO OBAMA'S PARTICIPATION IN DOMESTIC KENYAN POLITICS, WHICH INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING:

In a letter to the Illinois Senator, the Kenyan Ambassador (designate) to the US, Mr. Peter Oginga Ogego, termed Obama’s remarks as having been in bad taste and injurious to Kenya-US bilateral relations.

The statement said in part:

"I hereby wish to communicate to you the displeasure and disappointment of the Government of Kenya, (Kenyan) Embassy in Washington DC, and majority of Kenyans, with regards to your recent utterances while in Kenya.

"Your unprovoked and uncalled for statements were in bad taste, particularly given that your visit was well arranged in advance, with full briefings given to your office in Washington DC by the Kenya Embassy."

Ogego accused the Senator of deliberately twisting the truth about the Government’s fight against corruption to gain publicity.

"You deliberately, without real cause or reason, other than what appears (to be) to seek cheap publicity and inconsequential populism, chose to publicly attack the democratically elected Government of Kenya, in total disregard for the requisite protocol and acceptable methods to address the issues you raised, what with programmed appointments to meet Cabinet Ministers and even the Head of State, since your visit was official," Ogego said.



Some other very interesting information posted in Comments after the article:

Here is some interesting information on Raila Odinga's campaign that was leaked by ODM party members that were doubled-crossed by Odinga in November 2007 when Odinga supported others for the Bunge (Parliment) seats after those who got screwed donated huge sums of money to Odinga.

review:http://www.network54.com/Forum/20409...1200846405/ODM

Friends of Senator BO (yes that is Barack Obama) gave 66 million Kenyan Shillings ($1 million) to the ODM. Muammar Gaddafi's oldest son gave 53,450,000 Kenyan Shillings ($825,000) and Dick Morris (yes the Fox News analyst) gave 21,335,000 Shillings ($325,000). In fact Dick Morris held a press conference with Odinga )available on YouTube) in November 2007 to announce his pro bono work for Odinga just before the Odinga pact with the Mombassa based radical Muslims was leaked


Khaddafi bankrolling Odinga makes sense and might explain why Reverend Wright made a trip to Libya with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan around the same time.


There's plenty more posted on that site and, IMO anyway, well worth digging into.

This is a commentary piece by Hyman. Where exactly are his sources???

I read the entire piece, and if true, could pose serious problems for Obama, but before any of that can happen, Hyman must reveal his sources.

I'm not sure what you mean, exactly, by revealing his sources.

He has compiled a set of facts from a variety of sources.....facts already out there for everyone to see......concerning certain events, etc.......and put the information into article form.

It's not as if he were conducting interviews specific to the writing of this article and receiving some previously unknown information which he was quoting as fact, from sources who chose to remain anonymous and/or he does not want to reveal.

Originally Posted by CoolHead

This is a commentary piece by Hyman. Where exactly are his sources???

I read the entire piece, and if true, could pose serious problems for Obama, but before any of that can happen, Hyman must reveal his sources.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxN...