After Obama Jr's 2006 visit, Odinga supporters created T-shirts and posters with computer-altered images showing Obama Jr. and Kenyan presidential candidate Odinga standing side by side with arms around each other.
That caused one excited Kenyan blogger to write, "in 2009, we might see a Luo president in Kenya, a Luo president in the USA, and a Luo ambassador in Washington, D.C."
In December 2006, a Kenyan posted an online message claiming a car jacking and killing of a leading Kenyan professor was an attempt by the Kikuyu tribe controlled government to "ethnically cleanse" Kenya of Luo's -- Obama's family tribe. The poster copied the senator as an indirect message to Obama Jr. -- "Stand up against the persecution of your tribe."
Just over a year later, on Sunday, Dec 30, 2007, all of Kenya was edged closer to tribal warfare when over 100 people were murdered in a church were they had fled for refuge.
More than 200 people, mainly Kikuyus, the same tribe as President Kibaki, were desperately seeking safety in the Kenya Assemblies of God church when a gang of 2000 armed young men drawn from the Luo, Kalenjin and Luhya tribes stormed and torched the church. Witnesses reported that when people - at least 80 of them children -tried to flee being burned alive, they where hacked to death with machetes.
The attackers were backers of defeated presidential candidate Odinga who is claiming that President Kibaki had rigged the election.
Thanks for posting that information, and I hope everyone will read it. There are so many RED FLAGS on this, it is unbelievable that people do not understand what is happening here, and not just in Africa.
Obama went to Africa to campaign for his cousin, Odingo...and knowing his cousin was an african-arab and radical, muslim extremist and not some nutty uncle in the closet...what does that tell us about Obama?
Wright= former muslim, BLT preacher
Ferrakhan=leader of Islam
Odingo-radical muslim extremist
and the beat goes on.