Kenya deports author of Obama book

THE American author of a bestselling book attacking Barack Obama as unfit for the presidency was being deported from Kenya yesterday, a criminal investigations official said.

Jerome Corsi, who wrote The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, was picked up by police for not having a work permit, said Carlos Maluta, a senior immigration official in charge of investigations.

He was briefly detained at immigration headquarters before being taken to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for deportation, said head of criminal investigations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Joseph Mumira.