Kenya
'will deport' Obama author
Immigration authorities in Kenya
say they will deport the American author of a highly critical book
about US presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The author, Jerome Corsi, was in Kenya to launch his book which
accuses Mr Obama of supporting an alleged plot to turn Kenya into an
Islamic state.
Officials said that Mr Corsi did not have the right visa.
Mr Obama's father was from Kenya, where the US Democratic contender
is a highly popular figure.
Mr Corsi - author of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult
of Personality - has been accused of a smear campaign against Mr
Obama.
In a recent press release, Mr Corsi said he would "expose deep
secret ties between US Democratic presidential candidate Sen Barack
Obama and a section of the Kenyan government leaders".
Carlos Maluta, a senior Kenyan immigration official, told the AP
news agency that authorities had picked Mr Corsi up from his hotel
on Tuesday because he did not have the necessary work permit.
Briefly detained
Joseph Mumira, head of criminal investigations at Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport, said that Mr Corsi was briefly detained at
immigration headquarters before being brought to the airport for
deportation.
The Obama campaign says on the "Fight the Smears" web site that Mr
Corsi listed a number of false claims in relation to Kenya in his
book - including that Mr Obama contributed $1m (£570,000) to Kenyan
Prime Minister Raila Odinga during Mr Odinga's presidential
campaign.
Mr Odinga is from the same Luo community as Mr Obama's father.
The book also repeats false rumours, including that Mr Obama, a
Christian, was raised as a Muslim.
Mr Corsi co-authored "Unfit for Command", a book that maligned the
Democratic Party's 2004 candidate John Kerry, and is believed to
have contributed to his defeat by President George W Bush.
Source:BBC
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