Obama's Cousin Raila Odinga; Violence Against Christians Broke Out After Loss

Obama's Cousin, Raila Odinga:
Terror and Ethnic Cleansing in Kenya
Obama Actively Campaigned for Odinga

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Obama's efforts to influence the election in Kenya has been relatively under-reported by the media in America. Specifically, Obama has lent his good name and fortune to the candidacy of Raila Odinga.

On one level this support is not surprising, as Obama made clear in his Dreams From My Father that he considered himself some sort of quasi-citizen of Africa--especially Kenya, his ancestral home.

And it should be noted that while Obama never really knew his father, he does know Odinga. And Odinga claims, rather credibly--but without written proof--that he is a relative of Obama. Both are from the Luo tribe of Kenya.

"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."


Obama apparently denies the relationship. But that has not prevented him from supporting Raila Odinga.

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ALSO at DBKP: Obama, Cousin Raila Odinga: Obama’s Foreign Policy Experience

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Obama And Odinga


Obama has contributed about $950,000 to the Odinga campaign.

These monies were reported to have come from "The Friends Of Senator BO:

[Link to ODM document.]

World Net Daily reports: "According to several highly credible ex-ODM sources WND interviewed in Kenya, the $950,000 raised for Odinga's campaign came from a series of private meetings arranged for Odinga by Mark Lippert, a foreign policy adviser in Obama's U.S. Senate office. The meetings with top-dollar Obama fundraisers and donors took place during Odinga's 2006 trip to the U.S."

Obama was by no means the only recognizable figure on the list.

Dick Morris is there. So is Omar Khaddafi.

And although the list of donors on the internal document--purportedly issued as a memorandum by Orange Democratic Movement, Odinga's party--appears true, it has some oddities. Like, who is Spectre International and Associates?

Nevertheless the document is generally thought to be true, and it does follow a series of leaks of internal Orange Documents by certain former staffers.


So who is Odinga?

Well, that is troubling. Because this is a very unpleasant man.

He was jailed in 1982 in a failed coup. Although he is said not to be a Muslim he was initially set up in the Kenyan oil business by Khadaffi; he parlayed that into a lot of influence and money.

The Saudis were particularly helpful in advancing his "career". He also developed a lot of ties with the radical Muslim community, an alliance--allegedly brokered by the Saudis--that he hid from his own political party and its members. And for good reason: Odinga's election goal appears to have been to effectuate a Muslim coup of the government, although Muslims make up only 10% of this Christian nation.

According to Voice of America and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, on 8/29/07, Odinga signed a secret agreement (exposed 11/27) with Sheikh Abdullah Abdi of the National Muslim Leaders Forum (NAMLEF) in which he agreed to institute Islamic law in exchange for Abdi’s support (eakenya.org)–thereby potentially disenfranchising and curtailing the liberties of millions of Christian Kenyan women. Further, he promised that Muslims suspected of terrorism would be safe from extradition—thereby establishing a ‘safe haven’ for terrorists in Kenya.

After the public outcry, Odinga denied signing a secret agreement. Angry at Odinga’s apparent repudiation, a member of NAMLEF subsequently released the agreement to the press. Odinga then claimed the document was a forgery, but acknowledged a secret agreement had been signed in exchange for Muslim support. Finally, under constant pressure, Odinga released what he claimed was the actual document (“Real” MOU) a considerably watered down version of the original; but still anathema to many Christian groups. “In response to the revelations, The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya released a statement in which church leaders said Raila, in both MOUs, ‘comes across as a presumptive Muslim president bent on forcing Islamic law, religion and culture down the throats of the Kenyan people in total disregard of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of worship and equal protection of the law’” (“Concerns Raised Over Alleged Vow To Enforce Islamic Law in Kenya” Christian Post 12/18/2007) To many westerners, the idea of imposing Sharia in a predominantly Christian country may have seemed fanciful. However, Kenya has had Sharia courts for family law (not criminal law)—called Khadi courts—since 1963.

Many liberals here in America doubt this memo exists--despite Odinga's initial lies and subsequent admission. But, the liberal analysis seems weak and strained. They argue that it would violate the Constitution. A rather stupid argument when the Memo itself calls for the repudiation of the Constitution. I mean, it is not like Odinga ever gave a rat's ass about legalisms in the past. For instance the document (https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/MOU_between_Ralia_Odinga_and_Muslims.pdf) provides:

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.

But Odinga lost the election.

Initially it was credibly reported that Odinga lost by fraud perpetrated by the incumbent, a not particularly strong candidate because of his promise not to run again. (Has a candidate ever kept that promise?).

But then the government persisted in its allegation that Christians had been disenfranchised from certain voting districts. And while we will likely never know who was the winner of the election, we know who the losers were: Kenya, free speech, Christians and members of tribes other than the Luo and their allies.




As Market Watch reported:

For a few days both Nairobi and Kisumu were literally ablaze. Candidates who escaped the violence and who chose to run on parties other than the party Oginga was running on had to publicly step down when Oginga attended their rallies and publicly asked them to step down and support his party.

But that hardly touched upon the horror unleashed upon anyone identified as Christian.

In an aftermath government report, it was learned that many Odinga supporters had stocked up on machetes, gasoline, and other weapons commencing months before the election. They did not hesitate to use them.

While some surmise that the Muslim/Luo riots were a response to election tampering, the stockpiling of weapons supports the supposition that the attacks were planned all along, even if Odinga won. It was to be a Muslim assault on Kenyan society, with large elements of tribal infighting.

Allies of convenience.

Under any circumstances the rioters had all of the characteristics of Muslim expansionists that the world has seen so often in the past 30 years. Christians were pulled out of their cars and killed if they were of the wrong religion. Their homes and businesses were burned. Young girls were gang-raped in front of their parents and siblings. Men were 'circumcised' with machetes while captive crowds were forced to watch. Limbs were hacked off, both men and women were sexually mutilated in the streets and left to die.

It is estimated 1,500 died. The result was the exodus of 150,000 people from their homes. An attempt to purify Muslim/Luo areas and establish control.

The Mainstream Media still pretends this had nothing to do with religion.

Odinga is a pig.

As for Obama, we found an excellent summary by Zimbio on Free Republic.

It would be difficult to improve upon.

Clearly, Obama campaigned for someone who is corrupt, ruthless and has financial ties to terrorists.

More importantly, Obama campaigned for a candidate who had the stated objective of dismantling US & Kenyan government efforts to root out Al Queda and other terrorist organizations--organizations that had already caused the deaths of hundreds of Americans and Africans in embassy bombings.

Senator Obama’s actions—intentional or not—were in direct conflict with the efforts and interests of US national security.

I think this raises serious questions about the judgment, maturity and readiness of Senator Obama.


by pat
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Sources:
https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/MOU_between_Ralia_Odinga_and_Muslims.pdf

http://community.marketwatch.com/groups/us-politics/topics/odinga-turn-kenya-muslim-state-cousin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/organizations-and-persons-funding-odm/
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78035
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78059
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obama-islam-and.html
http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand=1mobtkk75pdt2
http://www.genocidewatch.org/kenya.html
http://transatlanticconservative.blogspot.com/2008/01/mob-torched-christian-church-sheltering.html
http://www.zimbio.com/pilot?ID=xUWlueYnb0B&ZURL=%2FObamamania%2Fnews%2FxUWlueYnb0B%2FSenator%2BBarack%2BObama%2BKenya%2Bx3E%2BObama%2BOdinga&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freerepubli c.com%2Ffocus%2Ff-news%2F2101183%2Fposts

Sex Offender Struggles In School Board Race

This is a contemporary American story if ever there was one; if only because it's hard to imagine it occuring at any other time in American history.

It says a lot about our country today. What it says is up for grabs.

"Sex Offender Seeking Seat on School Board"
A Horatio Alger story--kinda--from the Denver Post:

A Delta school board candidate says his criminal record has been overstated publicly and is relevant only because it shows he overcame daunting barriers to become successful.

Dale Haag, 48, is a registered sex offender who also was convicted of starting a fire in Sioux Falls, S.D., that killed two women when he was 17. But a supporter said Haag's rough start in life makes him uniquely qualified to be a board member of the Delta County Joint School District.

Haag, who is very open about his past, is undeterred by an onslaught of bad publicity and said he will not change his focus of strong discipline and encouraging more parental involvement.

"I'll tell you up front, I've got zero to hide," he said.

He turned out the way he did - going to 10 juvenile correctional homes and institutions before burning a Sioux Falls halfway house on Oct. 23, 1977, when he was 17 - because he didn't get the discipline he needed, he said.

Kids need to be told: "You need to sit down and shut up and read," he said.

It turns out that 'sex offender' wasn't the only thing in Haig's past.

Haag said he was angry at the world when he intentionally left a lit cigarette in a couch at the halfway house, intending to destroy the furniture but not kill anyone.

"The next thing I know, people were screaming and everything was crazy," he said.

At first he was praised as a hero because he helped people escape the blaze, he said. But days later, he failed a lie detector test and was charged with murder.

Haag, who is a salesman, was released from a South Dakota prison in the early 1980s and became a health care aide at Hope Haven, a group home in Doon, Iowa, in the mid-1980s, he said.

He was convicted of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse after he touched a 19-year-old developmentally disabled woman at the group home for the disabled.

The plucky candidate explains his sexual offender conviction thusly:

"I pinched her in the boob and patted her on the butt. It was a flirtatious situation. She knew what she was doing," Haag said. "It was blown way out of proportion."

The case was marginal against him at the time, he said, adding that it was overblown because at the time he was on parole for first-degree manslaughter in the arson case.

Haig had at least one supporter, a mother. Here she gives her reason for supporting the unfortunate Haig.

"We don't have anyone on the board who has been where he has been: someone who was lost in the system," said Beverly Ray, 40, who has two children in the district. "I look at what he has done in the last 10 years, and I'm going to judge him on that."

Next, the election was held. People went to the polls and chose their school board. From the Grand Junction Sentinel:
Haag Loses School Board Election

Dale Haag, a registered sex offender who also served nine years in prison for manslaughter in the deaths of two women in South Dakota, lost his bid for the Delta School Board but received 38 percent of votes cast.

Haag received 2,197 votes to 3,599 for his opponent, incumbent Bob Tweedell.

Haag said he was disappointed with the results but will continue to go to school board meetings and serve as an at-large member of the school district’s accountability committee. He added he wasn’t sure how publicity about his past, which was made public last week, affected the race.

The people of Delta had spoken.

Only in America and only today. No matter what you think of Dale Haag, shocked, hopeful or other, you have to admit one thing.

It will make you scratch your head.

by Mondoreb
& Little Baby Ginn




Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Pakistan Supreme Court Delays Election Results

by Mondoreb

An independent judiciary is sometimes a pain in the ass. And just not in the United States.

From the AP
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan was thrust into political uncertainty on the eve of its presidential election as the Supreme Court ruled Friday that no winner will be declared until it decides whether President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is an eligible candidate.

How will this affect U.S. relations with Pakistan, the War on Terror and the on-going battle to rid the wild mountain provinces on Pakistan's frontier of al-Qaeda operatives?

The surprise ruling jeopardizes Musharraf's bid to secure a new five-year term in Saturday's vote by lawmakers, in which he is heavily favored, and clouds the gathering prospect of a liberal, pro-U.S. alliance with former Premier Benazir Bhutto.

Musharraf's opponents in the election are contesting whether he can run for office while still serving as army chief, calling it unconstitutional. They had asked the Supreme Court to delay the vote.

Muscharraf's position has seemed a more than a bit shaky over the last several months. Observers wonder what it would mean if he were ousted in the electoral contest. Would he step down? And if he did, what policies would his sucessors put in place regarding the fight against al-Qaeda? The Pakistani Supreme Court is another pain that's been bothering Musharraf lately.
[image: cseserv.engr.scu.edu]

More on this at Noblesse Oblige.




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