ARIZONHA SHERIFF CLAIMS OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY

Arizona sheriff, already embroiled in a Justice Department bias investigation, waded deeper into controversy on Thursday with an assertion that a probe by his office found President Barack Obama's birth certificate was a forgery, Reuters reported. Most Republican critics of Obama have given up pursuing such widely discredited "birther" allegations. But the investigation by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, carried out by what he described as five-member volunteer "posse," was prompted by a request last August from a group of conservative Tea Party activists in the Phoenix area. The White House has denied repeated claims that Obama was not born in the United States. In April 2011, Obama released a longer version of his birth certificate to try to put to rest speculation within some Republican circles that he was not born in the country as required by the U.S. Constitution to become president. "A 6-month-long investigation conducted by my cold case posse has led me to believe there is probably cause to believe that President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate ... is a computer-generated fraud," Arpaio told a news conference.

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Headlines for March 02, 2012

IRAN HOLDS PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
Voters in Iran are taking part in elections to choose the 290 members of the legislative chambers, the Majlis, BBC reported. It is the first poll since the 2009 presidential elections, which the opposition ...
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ARIZONHA SHERIFF CLAIMS OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY
Arizona sheriff, already embroiled in a Justice Department bias investigation, waded deeper into controversy on Thursday with an assertion that a probe by his office found President Barack Obama's birth ...
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