LONDON: US president Barack Obama’s half brother was denied UK visa after being accused of sexually assaulting a group of young girls in Berkshire last November. Samson Obama was headed for Washington via Britain to attend the historic inauguration that saw his brother become the US president in January. But he came under the scanner of immigration officials at East Midlands airport when the hi-tech database revealed Samson had been taken into custody by British cops after trying to sexually attack a group of young girls, including a 13 year-old. He was later fingerprinted and not charged before leaving the country but not without providing his details, which were recorded on the Home Office’s new database of prints and biometric details. A Home Office spokesman confirmed Samson, one of the President’s 11 half brothers and sisters was stopped from entering the country after immigration officers detected a false document with his visa application. Samson was believed to have reached Washington through a connecting flight from East Midlands to the US. |
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BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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