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'Obama's grandmother receives death threats from al-Qaida'
Ha'aretz ^ | May 12, 2011 | Haaretz Service

Posted on 05/12/2011 11:32:49 AM PDT by OddLane

U.S. President Barack Obama's grandmother has received death threats from the African branch of al-Qaida, prompting stepped up security around her home in Kenya, ABC News reported on Thursday.

Sarah Obama, the U.S. president's step-grandmother, informed the Kenyan police that she had received a personal threat from al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based branch of al-Qaida, ABC reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alshabaab; islamicterrorism; sarahobama; somalia
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1 posted on 05/12/2011 11:32:53 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

...plays worlds smallest violin


2 posted on 05/12/2011 11:34:55 AM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: OddLane

The campaign continues, full speed ahead!


3 posted on 05/12/2011 11:35:22 AM PDT by mark3681
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To: OddLane

prolly a wrong number...


4 posted on 05/12/2011 11:36:33 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: mark3681

Pass the popcorn!


5 posted on 05/12/2011 11:36:48 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: OddLane

Sympathy vote is on the way.

There is nothing that Obama wouldn’t do to win.

Grandma better be carful.


6 posted on 05/12/2011 11:37:40 AM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: mark3681

The phone call was made from the White House.....


7 posted on 05/12/2011 11:37:51 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: mark3681
No way of knowing for sure; however, one highly suspects that this is a shameless publicity stunt, and is fiction from script through performances.

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8 posted on 05/12/2011 11:39:30 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: OddLane

Another fine example of black-on-black crime, or are the Amish upset again? Have a prune!


9 posted on 05/12/2011 11:41:16 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: OddLane

Not to worry. If Al quaida did it they say it is for humanitarian reasons.


10 posted on 05/12/2011 11:42:06 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Get the BO out of the Executive Mansion.)
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To: Peter from Rutland

FAke campaign story.


11 posted on 05/12/2011 11:42:53 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Get the BO out of the Executive Mansion.)
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To: OddLane

I think Obama should bring (at his own expense, of course) all of his African relatives to live at the White House for their own safety.


12 posted on 05/12/2011 11:44:08 AM PDT by American Quilter (DEFUND OBAMACARE.)
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To: OddLane
Which shines a little light on ex-politicians and Islam.

The rabbid dogs of Islam give very little value to what their culture tells them is a weakened leader. They don't get to stay above room temperature for long.

13 posted on 05/12/2011 11:46:48 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: OddLane

if a tree falls in the forest... does anybody hear it ...


14 posted on 05/12/2011 11:48:05 AM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: Gator113

Was she the one who “watched him being born in Kenya”?

May God protect her...the other gramma didn’t last very long after BHO ‘visited’ her in HI.


15 posted on 05/12/2011 11:48:40 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: OddLane
prompting stepped up security around her home in Kenya

Guess who's paying for it.

16 posted on 05/12/2011 11:49:35 AM PDT by twhitak
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To: School of Rational Thought

As long as I don’t have to hear about her female genital mutilation as a faithful Mooselimb, I can lend a sympathetic ear to anyones Al-Qaeda problems.


17 posted on 05/12/2011 11:49:41 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: Seaplaner

“one highly suspects that this is a shameless publicity stunt, and is fiction from script through performances.”

Heavens...why on earth would anyone suspect that?
Is this administration *not* the most truthful and transparent one in the whole history of mankind?

/dripping sarcasm


18 posted on 05/12/2011 11:51:03 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: OddLane
"prompting stepped up security around her home in Kenya"

Yep, they bought 3 more bows and 18 arrows.

19 posted on 05/12/2011 11:52:02 AM PDT by DeaconRed (LORD: Once January 2013 gets here, we promise to NEVER let another like ZERO anywhere near the WH)
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To: OddLane

“Oh, that’s no threat....I’ve often wanted to kill myself, just for having been his grandmother!”


20 posted on 05/12/2011 11:52:20 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed: he's hated on seven continents)
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