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White House admits Obama met Uncle Omar

By Meghashyam Mali
Published December 5, 2013 5:00am ET
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White House admits Obama met Uncle Omar
Onyango Obama, President Obama's uncle, arrives at U.S. Immigration Court with attorney Margaret Wong, right, for a deportation hearing Tuesday in Boston. The White House on Thursday admitted that President Obama had lived with his uncle Onyango "Omar" Obama in the mid-1980s, after previously denying that the two had ever met. (AP/Steven Senne) | Steven Senne

The White House on Thursday admitted that President Obama had lived with his uncle Onyango “Omar” Obama in the mid-1980s, after previously denying that the two had ever met.

The controversy arose after Omar Obama testified during a deportation hearing in Boston this week that the president had lived with him while he was a student at Harvard Law School.

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