Obama senior married Stanley Ann Dunham, a white student from Kansas, not only when he was said to have already been married to a woman in Kenya, but at a time when interracial marriages were still illegal in many parts of the U.S.
Documents obtained from the U.S. immigration service paint a picture of a man who ‘had an eye for the ladies’ and, according to his file, had to be warned several times to stay away from girls at the university.
Family portrait: A rare snapshot of President Obama with his father Barack Obama senior who, new documents reveal was a serial womaniser and polygamist
Happier times: Barack Obama senior stands with the President’s mother Stanley Ann Dunham at an airport in Hawaii
Heather Smathers, a investigative journalist with the Arizona Independent, obtained the files through a Freedom of Information request.
A memo from a University of Hawaii foreign student advisor said that Obama senior had ‘been running around with several girls since he first arrived here and last summer she cautioned him about his playboy ways. Subject replied that he would “try” to stay away from the girls.’
It also considered his earlier Kenya marriage as a grounds to deny him a visa extension but concluded that ‘polygamy was not an excludable or deportation charge’.
He is further described as ‘a slippery character’, and his relationships with ‘several women’ are discussed and investigated, while questions about his ‘marital problems’ are repeatedly raised.
Another immigration memo, from June 1964, records that Harvard officials were trying ‘to get rid of him’ and ‘couldn’t seem to figure out how many wives he had’.
The documents also specify that he had a child – Barack Obama junior – while he was at the university on August 4, 1961.
The memo also notes that he be ‘closely questioned before another extension is granted – and denial be considered’.
Other notes make reference to some kind of campaign to drive Obama senior out of the country and back to Kenya. The memo advised officials to withdraw his funding.
It said: ‘Obama has passed his general exams, which indicates that on academic grounds he is entitled to stay around here and write his thesis; however [Harvard] are going to try to cook something up to ease him out…. They are planning on telling him that they will not give him any money, and that he had better return to Kenya and prepare his thesis at home.’
President Obama’s mother met his father at a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii in 1960. At the time he was the first and only African student at the university.
When they married, she did not realise that he had a wife and child in Kenya. The couple divorced in 1963 and Ann Dunham struggled as a single mother to bring up her child, just as her estranged husband was at studying at Harvard and reportedly carousing after women
From pirate to president: Barack Obama playing as a little boy and (right) on the beach with his family
Wazee maarufu wanazuru Ivory Coast
Ujumbe wa Wazee Maarufu unazuru Ivory Coast, kujaribu kuhimiza umoja na mapatano baada ya ghasia zilizofuatia uchaguzi, ambapo watu mamia kadha waliuwawa.
Katibu Mkuu wa zamani wa Umoja wa Mataifa, Kofi Annan, anayeongoza ujumbe huo, alisema hali nchini humo bado ni tete.
Ghasia za hapa na pale zimeendelea, tangu rais wa zamani, Laurent Gbagbo, kukamatwa mwezi uliopita; na Bwana Alassane Ouattara kuchukua uongozi.
Wengine kwenye ujumbe huo wa wazee, ni
wa Afrika Kusini na rais wa zamani wa Jamhuri ya Ireland, Mary Robinson.
Libya inasema mtoto wa Gaddafi ameuwawa
Serikali ya Libya inasema kuwa mtoto mwanamume wa Kanali Gaddafi, pamoja na wajukuu watatu, waliuwawa katika shambulio la karibuni la ndege za NATO dhidi ya Tripoli.
Msemaji alieleza kuwa kiongozi wa Libya mwenyewe alisalimika katika nyumba hiyo alimokuwa akiishi mwanawe, Saif Al-Arab Gaddafi.
NATO, kwenye taarifa yake, inasema ililenga pahala pa uongozi wa shughuli za kijeshi, haikulenga mtu maalumu, lakini inasikitika kuwa kuna watu walikufa.
Hakuna maiti waliooneshwa lakini shambulio hilo lililenga eneo la makaazi mjini Tripoli.
Serikali inasema watu wane waliuwawa, yaani Saif al-Arab, mtoto mwanamme mdogo kabisa wa Gaddafi, na watoto wa Saif watatu.
Mwaka 1986, Gaddafi alipoteza mtoto wa kike, katika shambulio la ndege za jeshi la Marekani.
Msemaji wa Libya, Moussa Ibrahim, anasema shambulio la jana ni ushahidi wa wazi kuwa sasa kiongozi wa Libya, na familia yake, wanalengwa.
Punde NATO ilitoa taarifa kusema kuwa inaendelea kulenga vituo vya uongozi vya serikali lakini haiwalengi watu fulani.
Msemaji wa serikali, Moussa Ibrahim anadai kuwa Kanali Gaddafi na mkewe walikuwako ndani ya nyumba hiyo wakati wa shambulio hilo, lakini ni shida kuona vipi aliweza kunusurika bila ya kujeruhiwa, katika uharibifu uliosababishwa na makombora matatu yaliyoangushwa papo kwa papo.
Uchina na Urusi katika baraza la Usalama la Umoja wa Mataifa, zina wasiwasi kuwa NATO inapindukia idhini ya mwaka 1973
Libya Confirms Muammar Gaddafi’s Son Saif killed in Nato strike
Mussa Ibrahim said Saif al-Arab was a civilian and a student who had studied in Germany. He was 29 years old.
Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least three missiles. The roof had completely caved in in some areas, leaving strings of reinforcing steel hanging down among chunks of concrete.
A table football machine stood outside in the garden of the house, which was in a wealthy residential area of Tripoli.
Saif al Arab Gaddafi is reported to have been killed in the blast along with three of the colonel’s grandchildren
Colonel Gaddafi last night survived a Nato missile strike that killed his youngest son.
The Libyan government said Saif Al-Arab Gaddafi, 29, died after a precision air strike on a house in a compound in Tripoli. Three of Gaddafi’s grandsons were also killed.
The Libyans said Gaddafi and his wife were in the house at the time but escaped unharmed. It appears that the property, a large residential villa within a gated compound, was specifically targeted, as the two neighbouring houses were untouched.
Gaddafi’s supporters last night called the air strike a failed assassination attempt. They claimed that Nato was now directly targeting their leader and that this went beyond the remit of United Nations resolutions.
Saif Al-Arab was the lowest-profile of the Libyan leader’s sons and is not to be confused with Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the dictator’s heir-apparent. However, he had played an active role in seeking to quell the rebellion that has seen pro-democracy supporters gain control of the east of the country, including Benghazi.
While studying in Munich in 2006, he gained a reputation as a playboy and became involved in a nightclub brawl with a bouncer when his girlfriend was thrown out. Two years later, his Ferrari was impounded by German police for excessive exhaust noise.
Later in 2008 he was suspected of attempting to smuggle an assault rifle, a revolver and munitions from Munich to Paris in a car with diplomatic number plates.
However, the case was later dropped as the alleged weapons were never found and the German public prosecutor decided there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a prosecution.
Journalists were shown around the house after it was heavily damaged in the bombing
Three bombs are believed to have landed on the house
The news of the attack was greeted with anger in Tripoli, where sounds of gunfire could be heard across the city. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said the villa was attacked ‘with full power’.
He added: ‘The attack resulted in the martyrdom of brother Saif Al-Arab Gaddafi and three of the leader’s grandchildren.
‘The leader and his wife were there in the house, with other friends and relatives. The leader himself is in good health – he wasn’t harmed.
Gaddafi was in the house at the time but was not hurt
‘This was a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country.’ He said the attacks had no legal, moral or political foundation.
Journalists at the scene reported seeing one unexploded device in a huge crater among the rubble of the house and said the roof had caved in. It is thought at least three missiles hit the building.
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi yesterday refused to give up power but said that he was ready for a ceasefire and negotiations provided NATO ‘stop its planes’.
Gaddafi looked to have been winning with government forces held at bay in the east and around the besieged city of Misrata, while fighting for control of the western mountains.
But weeks of Western air strikes have failed to dislodge the Libyan leader and the war has instead become locked in a painful stalemate.
With neither side apparently able to gain the upper hand, Gaddafi struck a conciliatory tone in an 80-minute televised address to the nation in the early hours of Saturday.
‘(Libya) is ready until now to enter a ceasefire,’ said Gaddafi, speaking from behind a desk and aided by reams of paper covered in what appeared to be hand-written notes.
‘We were the first to welcome a ceasefire and we were the first to accept a ceasefire … but the Crusader NATO attack has not stopped,’ he said. ‘The gate to peace is open.’
Gaddafi denied mass attacks on civilians and challenged Nato to find him 1,000 people who had been killed in the conflict.
‘We did not attack them or cross the sea … why are they attacking us?’ asked Gaddafi, referring to European countries involved in the air strikes. ‘Let us negotiate with you, the countries that attack us. Let us negotiate.
Colonel Gaddafi was at the house at the time but reported to be unharmed
As well as Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, three of the colonel’s grandsons were killed in the blasts
The roof had completely caved in in some areas, leaving strings of reinforcing steel hanging down among chunks of concrete
But as he spoke, NATO warplanes hit three targets close to the television building in Tripoli in what state media said was an attempt to kill Gaddafi who has ruled Libya for 41 years.
The air strikes left a large crater outside the attorney general’s office but did not damage the building and hit two other government offices housed in colonial-era buildings. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
Previous ceasefire offers have been rebuffed by NATO as Libyan government forces have continued to fight on.
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