Birther conspiracy theorist and Tom DeLay co-author Jerome Corsi appeared on InfoWars with Alex Jones to explain his theory that President Obama and Raila Odinga, the former prime minister of Kenya, “made this pact with the radical Islamists in Kenya that was going to allow Al Qaeda to come through the door through Somalia into Kenya,” and are therefore to blame for the Nairobi mall attack by the Al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab.
He said Obama and Odinga “engineered” an “open door to Somali terrorists to pour into” Kenya. “This is the Saudis backing Al Qaeda, joined by Obama backing Al Qaeda,” Corsi maintained.
“This is basically Obama behind jihadis, connected to this attack,” Jones contended. “So they are using Al Qaeda worldwide as the proxy war to take over all these countries in North Africa and now into Kenya.”
“They are going to turn everything over to radical Muslims,” he continued. “So Obama is lowering the drawbridge from Egypt to Syria to Kenya to Libya to Central Asia to everywhere to bring in Al Qaeda, this is high treason.”
First of all, Corsi’s reporting on Obama’s supposed ties to Odinga has been widely discredited, as Obama never endorsed, advised or campaigned for Odinga. And while Corsi claims that Odinga is an Islamist, he is in fact an evangelical Christian.
While Corsi tried to paint Odinga as a friend of al-Shabab, in fact, Odinga called for Kenyan troops to wage an “onslaught” against the extremist group and tried to win Western aid for their fight in Somalia.
Corsi went on to allege that Saudi Arabia has been helping the Muslim Brotherhood take over the Middle East and North Africa—which is hard to believe seeing that the Saudis were the chief funders and supporters of Egypt’s military government that pushed the Muslim Brotherhood out of power.
The interview continues devolve as they claim that high-ranking military officers, including the Joint Chiefs, listen to InfoWars and that is why Obama wasn’t able to attack Syria. Corsi also charged that CIA Director John Brennan “converted” to Islam and is a “puppet of the Saudis.”
“We are Al Qaeda, we have always been Al Qaeda,” Corsi said.
