Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child

American posters on LetsRun make hysteria look like the norm. "I walked down the street" - US posters on LetsRun - "OMG you sonofabiatch god fearing hole of insanity, you racist piece of **** you looked in the wrong direction at a good ol' god fearing tramp from south of here". Or whatever. Imagine if you blinked wrongly during a conversation, accidentally triggering some historic memory or ingrown hatred or something and were threatened with a nuclear arsenal.

Very very strange. But its a third world country with low life expectancy, what can you expect.

I suspect I may have used too many syllables...

I don't know if he is an illegal immigrant, but he probably is. I don't know if he is lying about being a child slave, but he probably is. I never saw him taking the dope, but he probably did. I do know that he is a predicate liar.

OMG! My heart goes out to him. I am glad he unburdened himself. That was a lot for him to carry. Amazing that he did so spectacularly well and massive props to his PE teacher, Alan Watkinson for his great help to Mo Farah/Hussein Abdi Kahin.

Unfortunately, as usual, the small percentage of LRC commenters that are vicious and lacking in compassion and empathy are out in full force on this thread.

How is that Hussein has a twin brother with the last name of Farah, and not Kahin? A mystery.

Yes, his twin brother who stayed in Somalia. Hopefully a journalist is going to examine Mo's story in depth - but it certainly wont be a woke BBC journalist.

Excuse me?

"Sir Mo says he was about eight or nine years old when he was taken from home to stay with family in Djibouti. He was then flown over to the UK by a woman he had never met and wasn't related to."

"When they arrived in the UK, the woman took him to her flat in Hounslow, west London, and took a piece of paper off him that had his relatives' contact details on. 'Right in front of me, she ripped it up and put it in the bin. At that moment, I knew I was in trouble,' he says."

"Sir Mo says he had to do housework and childcare 'if I wanted food in my mouth'. He says the woman told him: 'If you ever want to see your family again, don't say anything."

"For the first few years the family didn't allow him to go to school, but when he was about 12 he enrolled in Year 7 at Feltham Community College. Staff were told Sir Mo was a refugee from Somalia. His old form tutor Sarah Rennie tells the BBC he came to school 'unkempt and uncared for', that he spoke very little English and was an 'emotionally and culturally alienated' child."

10 years after the fact, he was able to track down his mother in Somaliland with the help from the London Somali community.

This bit doesn't mesh with people saying they remember him attending Oriel School in Hanworth (ages 8 to 11).

Not trying to be funny and feel free to down vote me if it makes you feel better. But this kind of sounds like a real life version of Harry Potter.

The rules around here are that any post that mentions downvoting automatically gets downvoted.

Gary you are a loser. Right now we are all losers with the way the orangeman mislead our country.

How do these posts jump threads

These bombshells are always timed to coincide with worlds for maximum publicity. Here I was frantically refreshing the ARD site for this year's exposé wondering when it would drop.

Christopher Hitchens was nothing but a bitter hack with a grudge.

why coming out now?? a little too late.

why didnt he come out at his peak to give a voice to all those in similair situations?

now its like; "mo who?".

So let me guess:

In this politically correct world we live in - we are supposed to feel sorry for Hussein Abdi Kahin (aka Mohamed Farah).

Sorry, I will not.

People go illegally to other countries every day. By doing so they are criminals. They have engaged in illegal immigration.

Then later some of them work - another crime called 'unauthorized employment'.

Those that work do not pay taxes on their income - which is another crime called 'tax evasion'.

They deserve to be imprisoned.

They do not deserves sympathy.

He became a citizen of the United Kingdom via fraud and false documents.
The most amazing thing about Somalians is that no matter what country they live in, they always proudly identify as Somalian.

But in this politically correct world we live, we are supposed to cry a river for him and blame the white man. Even thought it was white people who helped him every step of the way in his life.

SMH.

If he attended school at a later wud that in theory actually make him older?

So in real life he is a few years older?

He was a child, Adolf.

<<How is that Hussein has a twin brother with the last name of Farah, and not Kahin? A mystery.>>

I'm guessing the claim is that the family (his mother, twin Hassan and older brother Faisal) were all called Kahin all along. However, why did no one local to them pick up on this? I'm also guessing that all these other "brothers" who have been reported in the press (some of them mentioned in his 2014 "work of fiction" Twin Ambitions) were either sons of the abductors or of Kinsi, who brought him up for a time. Would they describe themselves as brothers and follow on with this story? I don't know - maybe they knew something dodgy had gone on so had to keep quiet.

I realise that, if this is true, it must be difficult to talk about and he would want to put off telling the truth. However, wouldn't the 2014 book - after which he had become incredibly famous - have been the logical time to do so. Why now? He decided to write a book (Twin Ambitions) containing lies in elaborate detail - details which could be scrutinised by anyone, including those who knew his real family back home (and knew what their name was). The new book coming out this year is one possible reason, of course.