Robbers raid ancestral Obama home in Kenya

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Yahoo / Reuters

NAIROBI (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_kenya_dc

[jakem]

1. Wheres Cheney been these days anyway? nt

[Taverner]

2. Or CIA breaks into Obama's ancestral home looking for dirt

[Schema Thing]

3. Prolly found some underfoot

does she need secret service?


:P~

[pitohui]

4. there's some drug-related (glue sniffing) crime in kisumu

it's a pity that some people hear a success story and can only think how to use it to get themselves more drugs but we have that kind in america too

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. That's exactly what I think too...

Assholes.

[Doctor Cynic]

5. Sarah Obama? Wow.