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Excerpt from WorldNetDaily:
DISPATCH FROM NAIROBI
Kenya holds Corsi 'incommunicado'
Officials scuttle WND reporter's news conference on Obama probe
Posted: October 07, 2008
7:26 am Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
WND senior staff writer Jerry Corsi
NAIROBI, Kenya – The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi incommunicado at the airport until he departs the country after police shut down a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama's connections in the country.
Corsi, the author of the No. 1 best-selling book "The Obama Nation," was picked up by authorities at his hotel at 9:45 a.m. and detained at Nyayo House, the provincial headquarters for Nairobi.
"Just as we were about to start the 10 a.m. press conference at the Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi, Kenyan immigration approached us and detained us," Corsi told WND by telephone this morning. "Tim Bueler, my publicist, and I are now in the immigration offices, with our passports taken. The immigration officer told the press, 'There is no problem, and Dr. Corsi is a friend of Kenya.'"
Corsi and Bueler are booked on a British Airways flight to London tonight, an airline agent confirmed to WND. But Joseph Farah, WND editor and CEO, said he was in touch with Corsi until about 9:30 a.m. Eastern today and has not been able to reach him for several hours.
"We also hear unconfirmed reports from the government claiming it has 'deported' Corsi," Farah said. "Since Corsi was scheduled to leave the country today, this would seem to be a strange action from a government that was well aware of Corsi's presence, his travels and his activities in the country for the last week."
A senior immigration official in charge of investigations, Carlos Maluta was quoted by the Associated Press as saying: "We still haven't decided what to do with him."
Despite reports elsewhere to the contrary, Corsi has not been arrested or charged with any offense.
An official with the Embassy of Kenya in Washington said he was unaware of Corsi's detention. The Ministry of Immigration in Nairobi could not be reached for comment. WND tried again, later, to contact a spokesman for the embassy and was told by a receptionist the official word is that Corsi was not detained. "He's enjoying his holiday in Kenya," she said.
Yeah right...Corsi is "enjoying his holiday in Kenya." I surely doubt that being wisked away by immigration officials just before he was scheduled to report his findings is an "enjoy your holiday" moment!
How apropos is the timing for this snatching away of an American reporter who was just about to drop a hot potato on Obama's connections with Odinga?
Are they keeping him quiet until after tonight's debate?
Will the MSM report any of this?
Would they have reported this story if a pro-Obama book author was treated in this way in Kenya?
Can't wait to read what Jerome Corsi found out...must be a doozy
See also: Source: Kenya quashed 'smear' of Obama
Corsi detained because he was 'going to drop a hot potato'
HT: WorldNetDaily