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Senator Barack Obama in Kenya > Obama and Odinga: The True Story
Posted by africanpress on August 10, 2008
By Paula Abeles Friday, August 8, 2008
The mainstream media has justified ignoring this story based on a conspiracy theory chain email (politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/465) making the rounds from some African missionaries. Politifact.com examined the emailwhich claims Obama gave $1MM to Odingas campaignand declared it a pants on fire.
However, the underlying (more important issues) are verifiably true. In August and September 2006, Senator Barack Obama traveled to South Africa, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya as a congressional delegation of one (Codel Obama) (Codel Obama The Hill 9/7/2006) While in Kenya, Obama consistently appeared at the side of fellow Luo Raila Odinga (your agent for change), who was running for President. (Senator Rebukes Kenyas Corruption Chicago Sun Times 8/29/2006) Because of his African heritage, Obama was treated as a virtual Head of State in Kenya While campaigning with Odinga, Obama was openly critical of governmental corruption under President Mibaki usually a fair, if undiplomatic, criticism from an objective observer.
However, Kibakis government has been better than mostand Odinga has his own corruption issues.(
Loud and Populist, But No Political Outsider The Guardian 12/29/2007)
Obamas partisan support for Odinga was considered so transparent, that the Kenyan Government spokesman, Alfred Matua, complained of political posturing to aid Odingas election chances: It is very clear that the senator has been used as a puppet to perpetuate opposition politics,(Walking The World Stage Newsweek 9/11/06) And, we earlier thought he was mature in his assessment of Kenyan and African politics, Mutua told AFP.We forgive him because it is his first time in the Senate and he is yet to mature into understanding issues of foreign policy, he said.(Obamas Kenya Honeymoon Ends Abruptly After Graft Rebuke 8/29/06) Subsequently, Ambassador Ogingo Ogego made a public complaint to the US.(Kenyan Envoy Kicks Off Diplomatic Row My Africa 9/27/2006)
Raila Odinga subsequently lost the controversial (probably rigged) presidential election. In what appeared to manyincluding Human Rights Watch as a coordinated strategy from the top, (Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees Reuters 1/26/2008 and Kenya: Violence Planned Before Poll, Says Report The Nation 3/18/2008) his Luo supporters (a core of whom call themselves The Taliban(Ethnic Gangs Rile Kenyan Slums Newsweek 1/10/08)) engaged in what US Envoy Jendayi Frazer called clear ethnic cleansing (US Envoy Calls Violence in Kenya Ethnic Cleansing USA Today 1/30/2008) of the Kikuyu opposition.
Odingas supporters went on a rampageburning Kikuyu homes and businesses, (Ethnic Cleansing in Luoland The Economist 2/7/2008) raping Kikuyu women, and murdering everyone in their pathincluding at least 50 Christian Kikuyu woman & children who had sought refuge in a church. They burned them alive. (Mob Burns Kenyans Seeking Refuge In Church CNN 1/10/2008)
We have evidence that ODM [Odingas party] politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violence, Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director for the New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said on Thursday. (Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees Ibid)
So: who is Raila Odinga that Senator Obama would expend his political capital and risk the goodwill of half the population of Kenya?
Their relationship is unclear. The BBC initially reported that Obama and Odinga were first cousins.(Odinga Says Obama is His Cousin 1/8/2008) The Obama campaign has since denied a familial relationship. Raila Odingas father Oginga Odinga was leader of the Kenya Peoples Union and perceived as a committed socialist (Oginga Odinga: Kenyas Most Persecuted Politician Kenya: Key Issues 8/21.2002). Odinga Sr. was also the political ally of fellow Luo; Barack Obama Sr.(The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, 2004) p. 182)
What we do know about Odinga is not good. A former Minister of Energy, Odinga is reported to have been set up in the oil business by the al Bakri Group and Muammar Quaddafi (How Rich is Raila-The ODM Kenya Presidential Aspirant? African Press 4/26/2007) Abdel Qader Bakri (or- Abdulkader al Bakri) was listed on the infamous Golden Chainan internal Al-Queda list of wealthy Saudi financial sponsors seized by Bosnian police in a Islamic charity raid in 2001. (Terrorist Financing Staff Monograph 9/11 Commission and The Golden Chain) According to his website, Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany, (Herder Institute, Leipzig & Otto von Guericke Tech. Institute, Magdeburg) (http://www.raila07.com) Odingas eldest son is named Fidel (http://www.raila07.com)
Perhaps most troubling is Odingas links to Islamic extremists in Kenya. 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 Abdis 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 extraditionthereby establishing a safe haven for terrorists in Kenya.
After the public outcry, Odinga denied signing a secret agreement. Angry at Odingas 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 courtssince 1963.
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for the record:
ODM MEMO (EXCERPT)
http://www.network54.com/Forum/204096/thread/1200846405/last-1200846405/ODM
The Class Issue
It is possible to trigger a class war by painting the Kibaki Government as an insensitive, uncaring group of Muthaiga Golf clubbers. Available research also suggests that this strategy could also resonate with poor kikuyu youth who feel economically marginalized by their own government. As part of this strategy the party should seek to elevate the emotions within all youth constituents who may it successful, be willing to vote for us in the protest. Visible signs of class disparity will provide important fodder for this theme.
Pro-West
It is absolutely essential that through out this campaign, Raila remain aligned to the Western Countries (such as the United States) in order to take advantage of the deteriorating relationship between them and Kibaki. ODM can expect both financial and political support particularly from the United States.
Sick ... all sick.