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Kenya Deports Author of Obama Nation

Immigration nabs Jerome Corsi ahead of book launch

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 7, 2008 8:43 AM CDT

(Newser) – The author of the bestselling attack on Barack Obama, The Obama Nation, is being deported from Kenya for lacking the right working papers, the AP reports. Police nabbed Jerome Corsi at his hotel ahead of a book launch. One source said he had been held... Read full story »

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