December 4, 2008 (LPAC)--President-elect Barack Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was "imprisoned and brutally tortured by the British during the violent struggle for Kenyan independence," the London Times reports. There appears to be concern from London interests that this might have an effect on Obama's views.

The events of 1949 were related by the senior Obama's wife, Sarah Onyango, to whom Senator Obama refers as "Granny Sarah" in his autobiographical book, Dreams from My Father. That book omits any mention of the British atrocities in the Mau Mau rebellion under British rule. The President-elect portrays his grandfather, a cook and house servant for the British colonial aristocrats, as disapproving of the independence movement and warning his son, Sen. Obama's father, to stay away from it.

The London Times reports that Hussein Obama was jailed for two years and interrogated under torture. According to his wife, he was whipped every morning and evening. They squeezed his testicles with parallel metal rods; pierced his nails and buttocks with a pin, his hands and legs bound together with his head down. This made him hate the British, she said, whereas before he had served them faithfully.

The Times discounts some of the old woman's story on the grounds of faulty memory -- for example, the likely torturers were not British regular army but Special Forces. The British estimate that 50,000 Kenyans died in that contest, as against two or three dozen white settlers.

Lyndon LaRouche has recently stated that there is a battle royale around the Obama administration. Obama as a president and Obama as a candidate are two different things. As a candidate he was controlled by the British, by George Soros and others. But now he's in the thrall of the institution of the presidency, which means the potentiality of dealing with what he is faced with is different, especially now, in the context of a new fourteenth century dark age.