KENYA: OBAMA'S VIOLENT ISLAMIST ALLY, ODINGA, GOES TO IRAN

An axis of evil. Obama's corrupt pal, Raila Odinga of Kenya, is winging over to Iran while members of his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) are meeting with leaders in Southern Sudan. This bears watching. He is aligning with the most malevolent forces of power in the world. Does Obama cozy up to any good people?

Back in December 2007 and January 2008 I exposed the disturbing alliance of Obama and Kenyan agitator, inciter and Islamist Raila Odinga. It was a seditious alliance, as Odinga was brutally attempting to overthrow the duly elected Kibuki government - democratically elected and allied with America. Odinga has taken every opportunity to exploit his relationship with Obama (here), going so far as to call them cousins.

During the election that Odinga lost, Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Odinga's "stooge." During the election Raila was behind horrible massacres. The victims of the violence had mostly been members of President Kibaki's tribe, the Kikuyu. Those who went berserk were supporters of Mr. Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement, which is dominated by the rival Luo tribe.

As the riots and bloodshed continued, Raila Odinga poured tribal and religious gasoline on Kenya's fire. He urged using rape as a weapon and encouraged maiming and dismemberment. And Odinga was behind the Kenyan ethnic chaos that would provoke an al qaeda comeback.

I documented the close Obama Odinga relationship here. (scroll)

Raila’s new strategy for power (hat tip Julie, Baldilocks)

May 30, 2009 (NAIROBI) — The trip by Prime Minister Raila Odinga to Iran, which has raised questions because his delegation included only ODM stalwarts, overshadows the significance of a tour of Southern Sudan by the Luo Council of Elders. While Mr Odinga was flying to Tehran, the elders led by Mzee Riaga Ogalo were visiting the grave of former SPLM leader Dr John Garang de Mabior where they shed many tears.

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga shares a light moment with Iran's Vice Minister for Economic Affairs in the ministry of Foreign Affairs Mohsen Talaei on his arrival for a two day official visit recently. Photo/PMPS

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit was their host. The two trips can be seen as part of a sustained effort by Mr Odinga to build international clout and create new allies as he moves to solidify his position ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

Public Accounts Committee chairman Bonny Khalwale has asked Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetang’ula to explain why Mr Odinga was accompanied by only ODM figures to the United States and Iran. Cabinet ministers James Orengo, Sally Kosgey, Charity Ngilu, Anyang’ Nyong’o and Mohammed Elmi accompanied the Prime Minister.

In his campaign to woo critical allies, Mr Odinga has cast his net wide. Recently he was in the United States where he addressed leaders of commerce, Kenyans in the diaspora and a university graduation ceremony.

Addressed meetings

Since becoming Prime Minister Mr Odinga has visited and addressed meetings in South Africa, Nigeria, China and Tanzania, among other destinations, and met with world leaders like British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor Tony Blair.

Though the Luo elders packaged the motive of their trip as purely cultural, it had significant political overtones. It can be advanced that the elders were both cultural and political emissaries. The Juba trip came just weeks after they annointed Mr Kiir, the larger Sudan Vice-President, a Luo elder at a secluded beach resort on Lake Victoria in a ceremony hosted by Mr Odinga.

During the ceremony, Mzee Ogalo told Mr Kiir they considered him one of their own – their son, their brother. “We are bestowing you honours because you are one of our most respected sons. You are a Luo like us; it is only that you remained in Sudan as we trekked south to Kenya,” Mr Ogalo said.

The veteran SPLA soldier was given a traditional three-legged stool, a goatskin bag and a beaded skullcap once worn by the godfather of Luo politics, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. Today, the PM, a close friend of Mr Kiir, is the most decorated Luo politician.

The Sudanese leader accepted the honour in the warmth of his people. “I am full of joy because I am standing amidst my people. The Luos and Southern Sudanese are one people,” he said in acceptance of the honour. He donated $100,000 (Sh8 million) to the Great Lakes University for construction of a hall to be named after Dr Garang. The institution awarded Mr Kiir an honorary doctorate.

On the face of it, the sojourn to Juba was geared to cement ties between the Luo of Kenya and their brothers in South Sudan, but it also may have been a move to exploit a cultural bond that aims to seduce and entertain an invaluable comrade in Mr Odinga’s power matrix.

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Hussein Obama, the father of US President Barack Obama, hailed from Luo Nyanza. Mr Wamwere, who links the South Sudan connection with Mr Odinga’s presidential ambitions, perceives it as an “ethnic alliance which may be beneficial or counter-productive”.

“Mr Odinga is amassing troops and seducing elders and powerful people to his side. Mr Kiir commands a lot of resources which may come in handy for Mr Odinga should the need arise,” the former MP argued. And then there is the Museveni factor. With his relationship with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni quite frosty, Mr Odinga is likely to find a strategic regional ally in Mr Kiir.

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There is a strong bond between the Luo and the people of South Sudan. The Luo of Kenya trace their origin to Southern Sudan. More than eight centuries ago, the Luo occupied the area that now lies in eastern Bahr el Ghazal in present day southern Sudan.

They are part of the many Luo sub-groups comprising the Padhola, Lang’o, Kumam, Acholi and Karamojong of Uganda, the Alur of Congo, and the Anuak, Nuer, Dinka and Shilluk of the Sudan. Mr Kiir is a Dinka, the biggest tribe in Southern Sudan.

According to veteran journalist Philip Ochieng’, the Sudanese and northern Ugandan Luo “are more genuinely Luo” than Kenyan Luos “because they are less removed from the original home of dispersal and, therefore, less influenced by non-Nilotic elements”.

Comments

[sharon61]

Pamela, everyday I come on the site (more than once actually)in the hopes the headline will read OBAMA RESIGNS... I keep praying, thanks for the information and hard work you put in.

[Timur]

If Obama wasn't born in Kenya, why does his paternal grandmother swear she was in the hospital when he was born? One would think she would definitely remember the only grandson she has who had a white mother.
If Obama wasn't born in Kenya why did the Kenyan government p[lace a gag order on his relatives there and forbid them to speak with the press unless a government representative is there?
If Obama wasn't born in Kenya why did the Kenyan government seal his birth records?
Why was Dr. Jerome Corsi held incommunicado in Kenya and thrown out of that country when he tried to investigate Obama's birth in Kenya?

IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78931

[seeteufel]

Fine outstanding tribe, these Luo. Includes such notables as Milton Obote, ex prime minister of Uganda who managed to depose the king and wanted to turn Uganda into a socialist paradise. In fact I was in the country at the time of the assault on Mengo palace, the high point of Luo military tactics. The army had surrounded the palace and were shooting the hell out of it, but it was during the rainy season and the was one of those massive downpours. Those poor soldiers only had one set of Uniforms and they were forced to retreat to their barracks until the rains let up, during which time King Freddy chose to leave for London. Another notable military genius of the Luo tribe is Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords resistance army who is currently causing murder and mayhem in the Congo. I wonder if he too went to church with the rev. Wright.

[samtwit]

I do not know if people believe the stuff that you write.As a writer you are dishonest.You lifted an article out of a respected Kenyan newspaper and cleverly edited it,converting a balanced analysis of a Kenyan politician into a propaganda machine.

If you were honest,you should know that Kenyan complex mix of ethnicity and politics involves not just Luo-Kikuyu rivalry but countless other ethnic rivalries.The Luos and Kikuyus were allies throughout the 1990s and in 2002 in the fight against the dictatorship!

You add a few of your crack pot ideas about Kenyan ethnic relations to pursue your agenda against an administration that has nothing to do with the Luos or any Kenyan for that matter.Obama's ties to Kenya are so loose and it is outrageous for a small poor community in Kenya to be subjected to hate because of someone they do not even know.

Bias is allowed in covering Kenyan politics but bias does not mean twisting the truth or dishonesty.It is having an alternative point of view.A point of view that suits your ideas,opinion and perspective.

This articles is a sure test of your credibility.I have not read other articles but the disregard for truth and facts;the lack of authenticity;the lack of intellectual preparations is quite appalling.

A writer must be honest to the core.Writing is a sacred duty.This is the last time I am reading this farce.I pity those who read and believe all this nonsense that you write!

[haiderali]

i was born in kenya and as i know odinga he is not a muslim. he ia christian by religion so please do not tell people that he is muslim. his father was christian and he to was a destructive person so junior odinga has got from his father and their religion is christian

[Pamela Geller]

haiderali, I did not say he was a Muslim. I said he was an Islamist -- aligned with the Muslims. I have posted extensively on this.

Odinga signed a memorandum of understanding with the Muslim community in Kenya to institute sharia law should he sieze power (document here).

Please read my posts carefully.