Saturday, September 06, 2008

Bridget McCain's Bangladesh orphanage revealed

Bridget McCain stood out among the seven children of John McCain who took to the podium amid the razzmatazz of the Republican convention in Minnesota.
By Angus McDowall and Abdullah Al Muyid in Dhaka
06 Sep 2008

The adopted daughter of the party's presidential nominee, had been plucked from a Dhaka orphanage as a desperately ill baby girl after a cyclone struck Bangladesh in 1991.

Shyly waving from the podium, the epitome of the bashful schoolgirl, Bridget charmed the hall full of Republican activists gathered last week to acclaim their party's choice for president.

It was a world away from her roots in the backstreet orphanage in Dhaka, capital of one of the world's poorest countries, which The Sunday Telegraph traced last week. the rest

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