September 13, 2010  

Post and Email – Kenya Birth Certificate a Forgery?

Note: For some yet unexplained reason, Post and Email appears to have removed the article, although I managed to copy it from Google Cache. I am looking forward to P&E explaining this mysterious disappearance.

A contribution by Jim Byrne, describes how he sent an email to the doctor whose name appeared on the ‘Kenya Birth Certificate’ obtained by Lucas Smith:

I need to know three things:

1. Were you the Chief Administrator (or acting Chief Administrator) of CPGH on Feb. 19th 2009?

2. Do the stamp and signature that appear in the attached document appear to be your stamp and signature?

3. Is the attached CPGH birth certificate representative of what a birth certificate issued by CPGH in 1961 would look like?

The good doctor did not immediately respond but eventually, a short email was received

However, much to my surprise and delight, Dr. Heltan Maganga responded to my email on July 29. His response was not what many of us would have wanted it to be, nor what I suspected it would be.

The following is the message received from Dr. Heltan Maganga’s email address:

From: Heltan Maganga
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:53 PM
To: Jim Byrne
Subject: Re: Lt. Col. Lakin
The answers to all your questions is a resounding NO.

There you have it, folks! While we may still question whether or not the document in the possession of Lucas Smith really did come from Coast Province General Hospital, we can be reasonably sure that the signature on that document IS NOT that of Dr. Maganga.

Some background: I am a court-accepted expert in the field of computer forensics. I examined the header information for Dr. Maganga’s email response. It was indeed sent from Kenya. It appears that he used a dial-up service out of Nairobi. (Until very recently, high-speed access was limited to expensive satellite connections in much of Kenya, including Mombasa.) Nothing contained in the header was indicative of the email coming from anywhere other than the account I had for Dr. Maganga.)

Interesting developments…

9 Responses to “Post and Email – Kenya Birth Certificate a Forgery?”

  1. Stanislaw says :

    This isn’t necessarily on topic, but the commenters that contribute to the Pest & Efail’s website are some of most delusional people on the internet. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a sad commentary on the percentage of the adult population that can’t resist the clarion call of gross, delusional ignorance.

  2. Obsolete says :

    Well, since he is a foreigner, the birthers must give his statement more credit than that of any U.S. official.

  3. Dave says :

    This is now a dead link at thepostemail.com. I found the article in the Google cache, but it apparently has been deleted from the site.

  4. NBC says :

    I guess it did not meet ‘editorial’ approval?
    Hilarious….

  5. Sef says :

    Quelle surprise!

  6. Norbrook says :

    The sad part is that the author of the article is almost as delusional. He’s still a birther, who believes they’re the only ones asking “the tough questions.” That they were answered long ago isn’t entering into his mind. The birthers problem is they don’t like the answer, so they’re flailing about with asinine conspiracies.

  7. Vince Treacy says :

    Lucas Daniel (“Inspector”) Smith banned Jim Byrne from his site because of this article.

    This is a classic birther circular firing squad, with Byrne, Smith and Farah all taking dead aim on each other.

    Thanks for preserving the cache as a perpetual reminder to Byrne.

  8. Reality Check says :

    Don’t hold your breath waiting for an explanation from Sharon Rondeau. P&E has the same journalistic standards as World Nut Daily when it comes to pulling and revising stories w/o explanation.

  9. NBC says :

    Really? And I thought they had standards ;-)
    Quelle Surprise… indeed.