Wikileaks: Obama and the Kenyan deception

[populistdriven]

Source: wikileaks.org

The transparency website Wikileaks today released a document debunking claims that a Kenyan politician close to Senator Barack Obama sought votes by virtually pledging to turn the Christian country into a militant Muslim stronghold.

Dated August 29, 2007, the document is a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Kenya's National Muslim Leaders' Forum; in the MOU, Odinga pledges to look into the case of 100 Kenyans who were illegally renditioned to places like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Somalia, and Ethiopia in January and February 2007. Wikileaks also released a followup letter and the names of witnesses to the signing of the document.


Last fall, a forged version of the MOU was circulated in the leadup to the presidential election in Kenya alleging a number of preposterous claims about Odinga. Rather than pledging, for instance, to look into the case of Abdulmalik Mohamed, a Kenyan held at Guantanamo, and others like him, the forged MOU alleged that Odinga had virtually agreed to turn Kenya into a new Saudi Arabia: allowing for Sharia Law, banning alcohol, mandating Muslim dress codes and so on. The document is significant for a number of reasons, in the United States because it re-contextualizes Senator Obama’s relationship with his ancestral homeland (on his father's side) and with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. For Kenyans, it is significant in that it corrects a lie about the prime minister that put him at odds with his voters.

Wikileaks published the first document on its website, listing it as a likely fake on November 14, 2007. It was not hard to debunk it.

Read more: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Obama_and_the_Kenyan_deception

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The New York Sun is lying again?

[Bigmack]

1. Snopes debunks it, too....

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/kenya.asp

If you want to know who the whackjob-originators of the email are.....

http://irregulartimes.com/lorendavisstarcrazy.pdf

[populistdriven]

2. thanks :) ill check it out... nt