The first of the challenges thrown at the President-elect, who received his first national security intelligence briefing yesterday, came from the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

He threatened to base warheads along the Polish border if Obama goes ahead with a Bush administration plan to create a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

Then Israel warned Obama last night that his claim that he was ready to open talks with Iran could be seen in the Middle East as a sign of weakness.

Obama has already said the thinks too much has been done for Israel. If he’s not careful with this issue the middle east could implode.

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During the day he ventured out twice, once to visit his local gym and then his downtown offices.

Each time he was escorted by a convoy of black vehicles carrying heavily armed secret service agents.

It also emerged that both Obama and McCain’s computers were hacked into by a ‘foreign entity’ during the campaign.

Newsweek magazine revealed the FBI and the Secret Service had been called in, with one agent warning the Obama campaign: ‘You have a problem way bigger than what you understand… You have been compromised, and a serious amount of files have been loaded off your system.’

Federal agents told Mr Obama’s team in late August that Mr McCain’s campaign computer system had been similarly compromised, with a McCain aide confirming to

Newsweek that the computer system had been hacked and the FBI involved.
The hacking may have been Obama’s first skirmish with what was believed to be a foreign entity. More here.

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