Barack Obama's Grandmother Threatened By Al Qaeda

[Keith Bee]

Source: ABC News

Security has been increased around the home of President Barack Obama's step-grandmother in Kenya after an African al Qaeda branch issued a personal threat against her, police said today.

Kenyan police told ABC News they are patrolling round the clock after Al Shabaab, the Somalia-based branch of al Qaeda, threatened the life of Sarah Obama.

Though security had been added to the elder Obama's house the day after bin Laden was killed in fear of reprisals, the number of patrolling officers has ballooned since Al Shabaab's threat was issued. One police chief told ABC News he now had enough officers "to patrol the entire village."

Al Shabaab, which has been involved in fierce fighting in Somalia for years against the Western-backed government, counts among its members Alabama-raised Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki or The American. Hammami, who is known to produce pro-jihadist hip hop songs, was thought to have been killed in fighting earlier this year, but reappeared by releasing a new rap song in April.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/barack-obamas-grandmother-threatened-kenya-al-qaeda/story?id=13586549

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But, but why would they threaten the grandmother of their most successful sleeper agent? (You do know that Obama killed bin Laden so he could move up in rank, right?)

[dipsydoodle]

1. why would they "threaten"

instead of just doing it ? Sounds far fetched to me.

[Lucinda]

13. They like instilling fear.

[primavera]

21. It's a cheap way to force us to expend resources

Threaten anyone even remotely connected with OBL's death and we have to spend millions on added security. And all it took from al Qaeda was a phone call.

[Lucinda]

22. Very true.

[tomm2thumbs]

2. weaklings, going after an old woman - sounds like typical terrorists to me

obviously their testicles never descended, still stuck up in their skull taking up valuable room their brain would have preferred to inhabit

[Botany]

3. what a bunch of freedom fighters .... a grandmother?

I know to some I might seem like a red neck but let's see members of al Qaeda talk the talk
when a Navy SEAL team or Marine Recon unit or Delta Force Squad shows up @ their compound.

[Keith Bee]

10. You don't seem like a redneck to me

I'm a Democrat, not a pacifist: I believe there are times when military force is justified. Never in 'nam or in Iraq, and now, with OBL dead, we should get the fuck out of the Af/Pak theater. But I have no problem with us bombing the shit out of Qaddafi and his thugs, so long as no ground troops are involved.

[No Elephants]

4. Media are so ridiculous. Step grandmother? That's like calling

Ethel Kennedy's relatives "Kennedy cousins." Or Kimmel calling Arnold Swartzenegger a Kennedy. (Kimmel doctored a film to make it seem women were surrounding Ahnuld and throwing underwear at him and Kimmel said, "Typical Kennedy," or words to that effect).

Anyway, I hope the poor soul is calmed and kept safe somehow.

[fascisthunter]

5. his whole family will need security now

[BeyondGeography]

6. Scum

[JTFrog]

7. Wtf is with your comment?

:wtf:

[madmax]

8. OP was being sarcastic

Many Repug's believe President Obama is a Muslim, born in Kenya and groomed to take down the US. They're nuts and OP just added that bit of :sarcasm: without the emoticon.

[JTFrog]

9. I guess I need another cup of coffee. n/t

[madmax]

11. lol make mine expresso. ;-) nt

[mopinko]

12. a small request from the moderators.

please use the :sarcasm: thingie whenever you are being sarcastic. both the mods and the members are easily confused on these sort of threads.
thanks

[delunapark]

14. Oki-dokie

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[mopinko]

17. don't use up your allotment now.

you only get so many of those things. use them wisely.



:sarcasm:

[Keith Bee]

15. But some things are so plainly ridiculous.....

:shrug:

[mopinko]

16. you'd be surprised what kind of things people skimming

through thread land on and miss the context. really. you would be surprised.
then we have to go read a sometimes long post to be sure.

we usually figure it out, but it can be time consuming.

[Keith Bee]

18. I blame television

It's reduced our collective attention span to that of a tsetse fly.

[Nihil]

19. Yes but that's nice & profitable ...

1) Build crap that nobody needs.
2) Find tame market of consumers without the encumbrance of intelligence.
3) *PROFIT*

[guitar man]

20. That might not be too smart

Threatening granny can be hazardous to your health, as these guys found out :evilgrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxFvvUtu40