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Kenya deports anti-Obama author

afrol News, 8 October - The American author of a book that seeks to tear down the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was on Tuesday deported by Kenyan authorities.

Jerome Corsi, the author of the best-selling book titled "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," was deported few hours before he had launched the controversial book in the capital Nairobi.

Senator Obama has had his roots from Kenya where his popularity is unquestionable. Many people believed Corsi chose Kenya to advance his negative agenda against Obama whose popularity has been on the increase barely less than a month before the 4 November presidential polls.

Kenyan immigration officials confirmed the detention of the critical author for lacking a work permit before his deportation.

Both the government of Kenya and Obama's spokesman reserved comments on the issue. His Kenyan uncle, Said Obama, said he was not aware of the case and also refused to comment.

Earlier, the Illinois senator's campaign committee referred Dr. Corsi "a bigot peddaling rehashed lies to hurt Obama in the presidential race against Republican senator John McCain."

A product of a Kenyan father and a white American from Kansas, Obama was born and brought up in Hawaii. Obama's last trip to Kenya, in 2006, drew thousands of Kenyans who thronged every stop of his tour.

Dr. Corsi's book, which described Obama as "a dangerous and radical candidate for president," contains innuendos and false rumors that he was raised a Muslim and attended a radical black church.


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