Sen. Obama Greeted With Cheers and Song
From Times Wire Reports
Hundreds of U.S. Embassy employees and their families cheered and sang to greet Sen. Barack Obama after he met with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki during Obama’s first trip to his father’s homeland since taking office.
The Illinois Democrat also met survivors of the 1998 terrorist bombing of the embassy and laid a wreath in memory of those killed, officials said.
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