Bedouins Claim Obama as Relative

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http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=75 village of Bir al-Maksour, believe they’re related to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.

Tribal elders sent an introductory letter to Obama, detailing their findings and saying they plan to send a contingent to greet him.

The revelation came through the 95-year-old grandmother of tribal elder, Abdul Rahman Sheikh Abdullah, 53, who saw a strong resemblance between http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5548 and an African migrant worker she knew in the 1930s.

According to the grandmother, he was related to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4904’s Kenyan grandmother and married a local Bedouin girl.

“The way we discovered this was when he started appearing on television,” Abdullah said. “We, the Bedouin, have a special quality,” he explained. “We know who a person is and to which family he belongs,” he said.”When you see something in his body that flows like your own blood, you recognize it. There is a connection.”

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2008-11-14