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(This is an archived page; the original has been scrubbed from the web......) Sunday, June 27, 2004 Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations. The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative. Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following...

An online newspaper based in Tanzania is reporting that “Barack Abdallah Husein Obama,” the “first black US president,” was born outside of the United States. Written in broken English, the article notes that the President of the United States has historically been required to be born on U.S. soil but that “This might have been the result of racism or belief that a person other than ‘original’ US citizen was capable of effectively leading the powerful nation and help it to maintain its values.” The writers go on to say that “We witnessed last year a senator with his origins...

The death toll from Hurricane Katrina, which ripped through parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama this week, may be in the hundreds as rescue efforts continue after what U.S. and state officials say may be the nation's worst natural disaster. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued thousands yesterday in the New Orleans area, which remained flooded in water as deep as 20 feet, after rescuing about 1,200 Tuesday, the agency said on its Web site. At least 50 people died in Harrison County, Mississippi, including as many as 30 in a Biloxi apartment building that collapsed, Mississippi Emergency Management spokesman Jim...

Little room in the trench as Baghdad father heeds Saddam call (Go to link to view picture) Iraqi Mustafa Mohammad, 13, wearing a World War II gas mask, plays with his sister Haya in a trench shored up by sandbags and bricks at their home garden in a Baghdad residential suburb on Thursday (photo by Patrick BAZ/AFP) BAGHDAD (AFP) — As his children play soldiers using a second-hand gas mask, Mohammad Jawad points to a shallow, makeshift trench in his garden in a Baghdad suburb. “After the president's appeal, I had workmen come here who dug a trench in three...