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Minuteman Project Express News  2008

 

World Net Daily Investigative Reporter and Minuteman Project Consultant

Detained By Kenyan Police

 

Obama Critics Jailed?

 

Oct. 7, 2008...Minuteman Project, Inc.

 

Two prominent advisers to the Minuteman Project were swiftly escorted out of a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya by police yesterday as they were about to begin a news conference.

 

Jerome Corsi and Minuteman Project media consultant Timothy Bueler had been conducting research in Kenya about presidential candidate Barack Obama's connection to that African country. 

 

Corsi, 61 and Bueler, 21, whose passports were taken from them by police, are being held at the Nyayo House, the provincial headquarters for Nairobi, according to Kenyan officials.

 

According to a story published by the WorldNetDaily news site, Corsi and Bueler were to expose details of Obama's long history of connections to Kenyan political and Islamic religious figures.  These details may have threatened Obama's chance of being elected U.S. president.

 

Kenyans have a reverence for Obama because of his paternal roots in that country and his expressed interest in bringing the African continent into the international stage, according to a Reuters news dispatch. 

 

Corsi, who co-authored the book "Minutemen" with Minuteman Project founder and president Jim Gilchrist, recently released a No. 1 best-selling book "The Obama Nation", which sharply criticized Barack Obama.

 

Although Corsi is a strong critic of Obama, there was no obvious indication that the detention of the duo was politically motivated or an attempt to stop free speech.  Kenyan police claim the men were taken into custody because they "did not have a work permit". 

 

However, Kenyan police were silent when asked for an explanation as to why two persons who were allowed a passport/visa into Kenya would need a "work permit" to simply ask questions as part of their research.

 

"I am worried," Minuteman Project president Jim Gilchrist said when he heard the news of the detention of the two men. "I know these gentlemen very well.  They are truly respectable and conscientious minutemen.  We have a very positive history of working together, primarily on the issue of illegal immigration."

 

No information has been forthcoming as to when Corsi and Bueler will be released.  Calls to the U.S. embassy in Kenya regarding their status were unsuccessful.