'Obama Nation' Corsi Detained in Kenya Ahead of Book Launch

Kenyan airport official detained Jerome Corsi, author of "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality." Kenya is where Sen. Barack Obama's father hailed from and the senator from Illinois is beloved there.

Corsi is being held in Kenya while his immigration status is checked, the Associated Press reported, citing Carlos Maluta, a senior immigration official.

Officials are holding him at Nairobi's immigration headquarters until they decide what to do with him, Maluta told AP.

Corsi was about to give a press conference about his Obama book at a hotel in downtown Nairobi.

But one report also says he planned on visiting Obama's half-brother George Onyango Obama who lives in mud hut and on less than $1 a day in Nairobi to present him a $1,000 check, according to the Times Online.

The move was apparently to embarrass the Democratic presidential nominee after he failed to take care of his younger half-brother.

Corsi was also the co-author of "Unfit for Command," an influential 2004 best-seller that condemned the Vietnam War record of then Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry which weakened his war credentials as he pursued office in the White House.

Corsi's attacks on Obama are similar to those in "Unfit for Command" a book he co-authored in 2004 that helped derail Senator John Kerry's presidential bid by questioning his record as an officer during the Vietnam War.