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And while there has been some progress on disengagement from Iraq, with US troops withdrawing to their bases as the Iraqi army grows in strength, the military headache of Afghanistan has been growing.

In 1988 he left to attend Harvard Law School, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.

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He also demonstrated the ability to gather crowds of 100,000 people or more to his rallies, and to generate a buzz seldom seen in US politics.

Mr Obama first came to national prominence when he electrified the 2004 Democratic National Convention in a speech about self-reliance and high aspiration.

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It was during one such internship that he met the then Michelle Robinson, whom he went on to marry in 1992. The couple have two young daughters, Malia and Sasha.

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His stirring oratory, combined with an easy charm, won him supporters in the US and admirers across the globe.

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After Harvard, Mr Obama returned to Chicago to practise civil rights law, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination.

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After his landslide US Senate election victory in Illinois a few months later, he became a media darling and one of the most visible figures in Washington, with two best-selling books to his name.

The senator clinched the Democratic nomination after a long and gruelling battle against former first lady Hillary Clinton.

The son of a Kenyan man and a white woman from Kansas, he emphasised his personal history in a speech reflecting traditional American ideals.

The senator attended the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for almost two decades but broke away from it in May 2008 after controversial sermons by Trinity preachers hit the headlines.

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He had already broken new ground in his White House campaign, as the first black candidate to become the presidential choice of either major US party.

Barack Obama made history on 4 November 2008 when he easily defeated Republican rival John McCain to become the first black president of the United States.

Domestically, his first year in office has thus far been dominated by his attempts to reform US healthcare amid fierce opposition.

BARACK OBAMA Born 4 Aug 1961 in Hawaii Studied law at Harvard Worked as a civil rights lawyer in Chicago Served in Illinois state senate 1996-2004 Elected to the US Senate in 2004

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"Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place - America, which stood as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before," he said.

He served in the Illinois state senate from 1996 to 2004, before winning a seat in the US Senate.

On Capitol Hill, Mr Obama established a firmly liberal voting record, but also worked with Republican colleagues on issues such as HIV/Aids-education and prevention.

Barack Obama's stirring oratory and easy charm have won him many supporters

Critics, however, have started to question whether there is much substance behind his well-crafted statements of good intent.

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Although his father and step-father were Muslim, Mr Obama is a Christian and attended secular and Catholic schools during the four years he lived in Indonesia,mbt shoe, a largely Muslim country.

During the summer vacations from Harvard, Mr Obama returned to Chicago and served internships with law firms.

He then moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend school.

Internationally, much of his focus has been on attempts to achieve new agreements on nuclear disarmament and climate change, with his efforts in these areas yet to bear fruit.

In the course of campaigning, Senator Obama broke all records for fundraising, by harnessing the internet to collect huge numbers of small donations, as well as larger sums from corporate donors.

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Mr Obama is named after his father, who grew up in Kenya herding goats but gained a scholarship to study in Hawaii.

Mr Obama went on to study political science at Columbia University in New York, and then moved to Chicago where he spent three years as a community organiser.

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To many people, Mr Obama seemed to come from nowhere in his bid for the presidency. Although he had served in the Illinois state senate for eight years, it was only in 2004 that he shot to national prominence, with the speech that stirred the Democratic National Convention.

When Mr Obama was six, his mother married an Indonesian man and the family moved to Jakarta.

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And it was only in the two years leading up to the election that his name,coach handbags, face and story became known beyond America.

Mr Obama generated a buzz not often seen in US politics

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There the Kenyan met and married Mr Obama's mother, Ann, who was living in Honolulu with her parents.

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An early critic of the Iraq war, he spoke out against the prospect of war several months before the March 2003 invasion.

When Mr Obama was a toddler,rolex watches, his father got a chance to study at Harvard but there was no money for the family to go with him. He later returned to Kenya alone, where he worked as a government economist, and the couple divorced.

Mr Obama has two young daughters with his wife, Michelle