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'Al Qaida will be dancing if Obama wins election'
An Iowa Republican Congressman said that terrorists would be "dancing in the streets" if Democratic candidate Barack Obama were to win the presidency.
- AP
- Published: 00:03 March 9, 2008
Des Moines, Iowa: An Iowa Republican Congressman said that terrorists would be "dancing in the streets" if Democratic candidate Barack Obama were to win the presidency.
An Obama spokesman said such comments "have no place in our politics."
Republican Steve King based his prediction on Obama's pledge to pull troops out of Iraq, his Kenyan heritage and his middle name, Hussain.
"The terrorists, the Al Qaida ... would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror," King told the Daily Reporter.
King said his remarks were not meant to demean Obama but to warn how an Obama presidency would look to the world. "His middle name does matter ... because they read a meaning into that."
The Illinois senator, born in Hawaii to a white Kansas woman and a Kenyan man, is a Christian and has said he has little connection to Islam.
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