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8,000 Beduin stake their claim as the lost tribe of Barack Obama
Video: the gospel of Obama He has a host of relatives in exotic locations from Hawaii to Kenya, and during his run for the American presidency he discovered that he had an aunt living in Boston. Now Barack Obama is being claimed by not one but as many as 8,000 Beduin tribesmen in northern ...
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Man of the World's new relatives
Israel Matzav — Man of the World's new relatives Democratic President elect Barack Hussein Obama may have some more long-lost relatives in Israel . Now Barack Obama is being claimed by not one but as many as 8,000 Beduin tribesmen in northern Israel. Although the spokesman for the lost tribe of Obama has yet to reveal the documentary evidence that he says he possesses to support his claim, people are flocking from across the region to pay their respects to the “Beduin Obama”, whose social standing has gone through the roof. “We knew about it years ago but we were afraid to talk about it ...

The Lost Tribe of Obama
JammieWearingFool — It will be interesting to see if everyone wants to claim this guy as a relative four years from now . He has a host of relatives in exotic locations from Hawaii to Kenya, and during his run for the American presidency he discovered that he had an aunt living in Boston . Now Barack Obama is being claimed by not one but as many as 8,000 Beduin tribesmen in northern Israel. Although the spokesman for the lost tribe of Obama has yet to reveal the documentary evidence that he says he possesses to support his claim, people are flocking from across the region to pay their respects ...

8,000 Beduin stake their claim as the lost tribe of Barack Obama
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... local council member, told The Times in the small Beduin village of Bir al-Maksour in the Israeli region of Galilee. “We wrote a letter to him explaining the family connection.” ... It was his 95-year-old mother who first spotted the connection, he says. Seeing the charismatic senator on television, she noted a striking resemblance to one of the African migrant workers who used to be employed by rich sheikhs in the fertile north of British Mandate Palestine in the 1930s. Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_amer...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/13/2008
Gates of Vienna — ... 8,000 Bedouins: We’re Lost Tribe of Barack Galilee sheikh claims evidence he, his family linked by blood to president-elect He has a host of relatives in exotic locations from Hawaii to Kenya, and during his run for the American presidency he discovered that he had an aunt living in Boston. Now Barack Obama is being claimed by not one but as many as 8,000 Beduin tribesmen in northern Israel. Although the spokesman for the lost tribe of Obama has yet to reveal the documentary evidence ...

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