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Raila Odinga: Unmasking the archetype of violence - Odinga's terrorist connections |
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011 22:26 |
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Odinga's terrorist connections Two of Odinga's most benevolent financiers in the run up to the 2007 elections were Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and A K Al Bakari, whose company A K Al Bakri & Sons Holding is based in Saudi Arabia. One of the prime contracts they would get was for the supply of jet fuel to Nairobi Airport and petroleum products to Raila's petroleum business at subsidised prices, which allowed him to undercut the competition there.
This started when Raila was the minister of Energy and there were clear conflicts of interest. The deal made Raila filthy rich. This same Abdulkader Al Bakri is listed as a defendant in the First Amendment Complaint suit brought by various insurance companies in the United States against al Qaeda and associated organisations and individuals. Within that suit is mentioned documents (known as the Golden Chain document) picked up by Bosnian police on a raid on a charitable front organisation for al Qaeda in Sarajevo. One of the listed documents is the "Tareekh Osama" ("Osama's History") in which Abdulkader al Bakri aka Abdel Qader Bakri gets a prominent listing as a financier of Osama bin Laden. His link to terrorist fanciers is therefore well established.
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