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DogPoundPup (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-11-08 02:00 PMOriginal message Robbers raid ancestral Obama home in Kenya Source: Yahoo / ReutersNAIROBI (Reuters) - Suspected robbers have broken into the home of U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama's grandmother in a Kenyan village, local media said on Thursday."These are just people ... who think that Obama has been sending me a lot of money," Sarah Obama, the Illinois senator's 85-year-old step-grandmother, said of the burglars.Nothing was stolen during the raid early on Wednesday, but senior police commanders and local officials visited the modest homestead in Kogelo village to investigate.Reports said the thieves used a ladder to try to steal a solar panel from her roof, but failed. They also broke into a small, locked outbuilding but found nothing of value.Police vowed to intensify patrols in the area near Kisumu and said local authorities might also assign a dedicated unit to guard the family."A local analysis will have to be done to ascertain the risk and recommend to the commissioner," Kenya's deputy police spokesman, Charles Owino, told the Daily Nation newspaper.Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080911/wl_nm/usa_politics_...
