Al Qaeda target: Obama's grandmother?

U.S. Senator Barack Obama, right, meets his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama at his father's house in Nyongoma Kogelo village, western Kenya, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006. Obama received a hero's welcome Saturday during an emotional family reunion at his late father's hometown in western Kenya. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

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The Somali terror group Al Shabaab has issued a personal threat against Sarah Obama, President Obama's step-grandmother, who lives in Kenya, ABC News reports.

Kenyan officials have provided Mrs. Obama with additional security Thursday, even though security had already been increased following the United States' assassination of Osama bin Laden.

But there is no new or credible threat to President Obama's grandmother, an expert involved in security matters at the U.S. embassy in Kenya told CBS News.

Local police added security around only out of abundance of caution.

Although, the embassy is under constant threat, they know of nothing new regarding Mrs. Obama.

Al Shabaab, a group loosely linked to al Qaeda, has long been a faction in the Somali civil war and has been linked to piracy, beheadings, and terror links to Somali communities in the United States.

Of course, the Al Shabab threat may amount to little more than posturing. Al Qaeda and its affiliates have issued numerous threats in the wake of bin Laden's killing, most of them broad threats of reprisal against the West and assertions of the groups' continuing relevancy.

[tafur77]

does not anyone feel its a great disrespect for CBSNEWS to address our President only as the U.S. Senator? I feel he has fully earned his right to be called our president of the United States of America

[klb6]

Not only Al Qaeda is targeting his Grandmother but Obama would like to have her out of the way. Sad to have to say!

[klb6]

Very interesting....but??? - Obama Born In Kenya? His Grandmother Says Yes. - Someone is lying. According to Obama's Kenyan (paternal) grandmother, as well as his half-brother and half-sister, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii as the Democratic candidate for president claims.

[credibility2]

Wasn't this the same paternal grandmother that initial asserted that she saw the birth of the president in Kenya and then changed her story? If so, next we'll hear that the birthers have placed a bounty on the woman's head.

[democracy5]

That was a mistranslation on the part of the interpreter. Please don't get the birthers started again--they're finally beginning to shut up.

[bradkt1]

Murderers targeting families are NOT heroes of Islam...

...They're just murderers and nothing more.

You can't get more evil than what Al Qaeda is.

[us_1776]

al-Qaeda, what is the point of going around the world and killing innocent people?

There's nobody among young Arabs that gives a rats azz about you idiots anymore. Young Arabs want democracy and freedom from brutal dictators. Not war and terrorism.

Why don't you al-Qaeda guys go out and get real jobs? And actually start doing something productive in the world.



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[username555-2009]

Nice distraction, maybe the TSA should start feeling up little kids in Kenya "just to keep them safe from terrorism" too.

[Jhihmoac]

Even his Grandmother? Goes to show nothing's safe or sacred anymore...