NAIROBI, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The American author who wrote a controversial book slamming U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama was finally deported from Kenya late on Tuesday.
Jerome Corsi had planned to make public statements in Kenya that were critical to both Obama and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga after traveling to the Obama's family homeland to investigate links between the Democratic nominee and Kenyan politicians.
He had scheduled a news conference on Tuesday at a Nairobi hotel for the Kenyan launch of his book, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.
Obama's father was Kenyan, and he still has relatives and supporters in the country. Corsi was even carrying a 1,000 U.S. dollar cheque for Obama 's half-brother who lives in a Nairobi slum as part of a spectacular act to shame Obama, the first African-American to come so close to the White House.
But the author of the anti-Obama book was declared persona non grata and ordered out of the Kenyan capital on Tuesday night.
Corsi was detained by immigration authorities as he arrived at the Nairobi hotel where the book launch was due to take place.
He was accused of engaging in illegal activities in Kenya. The move came hours before Obama and John McCain took to the stage for the second live TV presidential campaign debate.
The U.S. presidential contest was turning increasingly nasty on Tuesday as the presidential rivals launched personal attacks against each other.
Tim Bueler, Corsi's assistant, said Tuesday that they would be flying to London on an overnight flight.
"Our passports and visas are in order but it seems the Kenyan authorities have lost our arrival cards, which we filled in on the plane coming here," he told journalists before being escorted to the airport.
"So we will leave while they complete their investigations but we have been told we can return."
The missing paperwork will be viewed as something of a cheat tolet all sides forget about the embarrassing incident as quickly aspossible.
The immigration officers, however, said Corsi was "free to apply for a valid work permit to come back and launch his book".
Sources at immigration department said that Corsi and Bueler had their visitors' passes annulled for violating rules.
"They violated terms of the visitor's pass by engaging in a business and marketing of his book. They required a special permitto do business," a top Immigration source said.
Corsi claimed he had earlier met with a top government official, who "gave me a nod to go ahead".
Corsi's troubles began about 10 minutes before the news conference was set to begin when immigration authorities questioned Corsi and his U.S. media liaison, Bueler.
Pro-Obama youths protested outside the hotel, claiming the launch was a smear campaign against the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate.
"We are here to register our displeasure and to oppose the sentiments of the Republican sympathizer and author," said Dennis Thande, one of the protesters.
"It is bad propaganda and an affront to the people of Obama's father and grandfather," Thande said.
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