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Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 12
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 6 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 03:12 pm: | 
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Peter Bergen "Lied" on Kola Boof
*Kola Boof disputes misinformation by journalist Peter Bergen and is praised by two world literary scholars.
Noted Bin Laden biographer Peter Bergen, who has called Kola Boof a "pathological liar" and "fraud" for admitting her 1996 involvement with Osama Bin Laden, posted a blog entry last week alleging that two men Ms. Boof had written about having sex with in her autobiography were in fact "dead" at the time said act took place. Kola Boof responded to Bergen's comments in a statement this morning:
"The two men mentioned in my book", said Kola Boof, "were not in their seventies or eighties as Bergen alleges--they were around twenty-seven, as I was, and they were introduced to me as the SONS of the elderly dead men Peter Bergen has falsely claimed I was writing about. Anyone who reads my book will realize that I had no way of knowing who anyone at Osama's gathering was other than relying on what I was told by the men. There is nothing in my book that is a lie--I wrote the truth and nothing but the truth as I remembered it.
Just as The Connie Chung Show remarked several years ago that a man of Bin Laden's stature and religious piety would never have a 'black woman' as his mistress...so, too, is Peter Bergen dead wrong.
I consider Peter Bergen to be nothing more than a glorified Bin Laden GROUPIE. An arrogant bully who behaves as though someone appointed him GOD and claims to know for a fact that Somi has never been to Morocco--yet with all his bogus radar has failed to ever capture or deliver Bin Laden. That is because Bergen's whole obsession with Somi is represented by heresay, while in my case, I actually lived with Osama."
Kola Boof, who according to an April 9th, 2003 U.N. Human Rights Report was the target of a "fatwa" by the Sudanese government, and is the same woman who secured guns and ammunition from Israel in 2004 to support Sudan's South Rebel Army in their war against Sudan's Arab government, the same woman whose poem "Chol Apieth" was used to memoralize John Garang at his state funeral and is the same woman who was given the title "QUEEN KOLA" by her commanders in the SPLA, went on to say that she has never referred to herself as a "sex slave", and that although she is a Liberal Democrat, she believes the U.S. Media hates her because they fear her first hand accounts of Arab Muslim Imperialism will drive African-Americans to support a Republican agenda. The N.Y. Times, in 2002, suggested Boof doesn't exist, defended Bin Laden ally Gamal Ibrahim's public threats against Boof's life and incorrectly reported that she was a prostitute.
"They make fun of my name", said Kola Boof. "They claim to be serious journalists, people worthy of appraising my truth, yet they don't understand simple things like why a Nilotic African woman would pose topless or why she would refuse to be called a 'sex slave'. They can believe that Somi bombed the twin towers...but not that he planted tracking devices in the teeth of his guards. They can take Peter Bergen's hypothesis at face value, but because I am an African woman--I am to remain faceless."
Two of world literature's most legendary Scholars, Derrick Bell of N.Y. University and Chinweizu of Nigeria have recently come to Kola Boof's defense--Bell praising Boof's personal character in Britain's Mail on Sunday--and Chinweizu citing that he fully believes Ms. Boof's affair with Bin Laden and that the Western Media hates Boof for her support of Israel over Palestine. Derrick Bell has called Kola Boof a "gifted" literary writer, while Chinweizu, in a letter to Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison, has called her--"Africa's most important new writer".
Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist Kola Boof is the mother of two sons and the author of the modern African classics, "Long Train to the Redeeming Sin" and "Flesh and the Devil".
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Nafisa Goma, Senior Editor
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Aurora
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Username: Aurora
Post Number: 23
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 15 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 03:26 pm: |
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If Peter Bergen really lied, why don't you sue him. |
Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3124
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 14 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 03:50 pm: |
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And waste all my time, energy and money for WHAT?
To sit in court for 6 years?
Thanks Aurora (Cynique), but responses in the press such as this one are far more effective---and are IMMEDIATE.
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Moonsigns
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 1409
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 11 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 03:50 pm: |
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Good point, Aurora! |
Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 13
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 6 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 03:54 pm: |
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Better point, Kola!
Wow you're quick. (Smiley)
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Aurora
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Username: Aurora
Post Number: 24
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 14 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:02 pm: |
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I am not Cynique, Kola Boof, I am Aurora Borealis. If Peter Bergen and the New York Post truly lied as you allege, then the time and energy to expose the truth would be worth it. Why don't you have your publicist, agent, or attorney do it for you instead of posting about it on the internet because that only substantiates the claims that you lack credibility. |
Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 14
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 6 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:27 pm: |
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I am Kola Boof's publicist.
No attorney is needed for he said/she said disputes that are as minor as this one, however, Kola will be given enough opportunities on television to dispute Bergen's "inaccurate" reporting.
He confused one set of men with another. And it's obvious now that he should have done some background checking.
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Aurora
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Username: Aurora
Post Number: 26
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 11 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:30 pm: |
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If it is so minor then why do you continue to draw attention to it, why not simply ignore it like a normal person. |
Prettybabygirl
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Prettybabygirl
Post Number: 559
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 8 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:34 pm: |
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Aurora, could you stop with the stupid bullshit comments?
Of course they have to make a public response, and of course Bergen spoke too soon.
I just saw PHOTOS of the two "sons" on t.v. It's their fathers who are dead.
This shit is getting ridiculous and they're making Kola look like a champ.
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Aurora
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Username: Aurora
Post Number: 27
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 8 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:37 pm: |
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I was not even addressing you Prettybabygirl. I am responding to the original post, is that alright with you. May I please have my freedom of speech and expression without you casting your insults. |
Prettybabygirl
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Prettybabygirl
Post Number: 562
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 6 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:43 pm: |
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Didn't you just "insult" Kola and Ms. Goma?
DUH!
You only make people love Kola more--so keep on.
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Aurora
Regular Poster
Username: Aurora
Post Number: 28
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 5 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:45 pm: |
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Since when is seeking the truth insulting? |
Prettybabygirl
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Prettybabygirl
Post Number: 563
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 4 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 05:07 pm: |
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GREAT! Then let me speak the TRUTH again:
Aurora, could you stop with the stupid bullshit comments?
Of course they have to make a public response, and of course Bergen spoke too soon.
I just saw PHOTOS of the two "sons" on t.v. It's their fathers who are dead.
This shit is getting ridiculous and they're making Kola look like a champ.
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Nafisa_goma
Newbie Poster
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 16
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 06:26 pm: |
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Kola Boof in
TIME MAGAZINE, Sept. 4th
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Did Osama bin Laden really watch MacGyver, rock to Van Halen and lust
after Whitney Houston?
Those are some of the claims made in the
autobiography- published in February but overlooked until Harper's printed excerpts last week- by Sudanese born novelist Kola Boof, who
says she was bin Laden's mistress in 1996. Boof, who wrote for "Days of Our Lives", says bin Laden called Houston a beautiful woman "brain-washed by American culture and her husband Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed."
"Nobody in the West, " Boof laments,
"believes me when I tell them this."
Lovely! (smiley)
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 5018
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 4 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 12:06 am: |
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Prettybabygirl is Kola but Aurora is not Cynique. I am Cynique and I am also just an amused spectator to Kola's 15 minute of fame. For sure. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6285
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 07:43 am: |
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Is Peter Bergen the FIRST person to write, post or express something about Kola's history that she dislikes or disagrees with? |
Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3125
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 09:34 am: |
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Hi ABM,
Peter Bergen is a correspondent for CNN and is considered the top Bin Laden "biographer".
He's also claiming that people I wrote about in my book were actually "DEAD" at the time I was interacting with them---------which completely negates my credibility------if in fact he had been right.
So it was obviously very necessary to take his PUBLIC comments seriously and to swiftly refute them.
The entire Press corp has been hostile towards me and is just waiting for any concrete opening by which they can rip me to shreds. Though they've been dismissive, snarkey and disrespectful, they haven't as yet been able to destroy or stop me. And Peter Bergen represented a very good chance to shoot me down.
I hope you understand.
Kola
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Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3126
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 09:53 am: |
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And ABM, let me also mention the "behind the scenes" SPARRING that has gone on between Bergen and I for over a year---with him harassing and calling me names. We really do have a personal fued going.
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6288
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 10:24 am: |
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Kola,
I asked that question because it seems to me were you to attempt to sue EVERYONE who'd expressed a contrary or negative view about you, your legal expenses would be running in the 6 or 7-figures. |
Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3128
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 10:29 am: |
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Thanks ABM. True, true----as at this moment, I'm in legal funk with WIKIPEDIA.
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6290
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 10:35 am: |
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Kola,
You might have to join-the-club in attempting to hold WIKIPEDIA's feet to the fire, babe. All indications are those foks consider telling the truth to be less an obligation and more an inconvenient annoyance. |
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