Obama says he met with half brother while in China

BEIJING – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share.

Obama, who spent three days in China during his first official tour of Asia, acknowledged the meeting in an interview with CNN. He offered no details. An aide said later that the meeting took place Monday night after Obama arrived in Beijing, the Chinese capital.

The White House had declined to say whether the president and Mark Ndesandjo would meet. And no White House official mentioned the visit until Obama did when asked about it.

"I don't know him well. I met him for the first time a couple of years ago," Obama told CNN. "He stopped by with his wife for about five minutes during the trip."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_as/as_obama_brother

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902176.html

Seem like they are using him (Ndesandjo) to score points.

But I didn't see a mention of him in your link.

Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, a half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, introduces his first novel "Nairobi to Shenzhen" during a pre-launch news conference held by the American Chamber of Commerce in South China, in the southern Chinese city November 4of Guangzhou , 2009.