They're hoping Mr Obama has waved a very big diplomatic stick in Bibi Netanyahu's general direction.
To Brazilians, the name Bibi Ferreira is to musical theatre what Antonio Carlos Jobim is to samba.
The imam, Qari Mohammed Salim, told us he cried with joy when sentence was passed on Asia Bibi.
The ruins of the Bibi Khanum mosque (1399) rise up over the city like the hulk of a wrecked ocean liner.
Both say Iran must not get nuclear weapons - Bibi said he firmly believed that the president would take action to stop it.
Bibi told Reuters news agency that relatives of the defendants had threatened to kill members of her family if the 14 were convicted.
Earlier, Bibi appealed to the government for a safer place to live, saying she has been threatened with revenge if the men were convicted.
Honestly, I was shocked to realize Bibi is not well known in the USA. Her talented manager, Nilson Raman, is working hard to change that.
The case drew attention after Lal Bibi, 18, reported the attack.
Then, in a third room, Mr. Wazir's brother, Akhtar Mohammed, 20, his brother's new bride, 18-year-old Bibi Nazia, and a nephew, Essa Mohammed, 15, were killed.
Nor does Bibi, a former prime minister who would like his old job back, have an obvious reason to ease Mr Sharon out of his predicament.
"I was the woman with the strength of seven men, but now I'm afraid if I stumble, I'll fall, " says 49-year-old Akhtar Bibi, invoking a local proverb.
Obama doesn't want to be the U.S. president on whose watch Iran crossed the nuclear weapons threshold and certainly neither does Bibi want to be the Israeli prime minister held responsible.
Now that he is in power, pundits ask, might Bibi see himself as the Churchill of the Battle of Britain, fighting alone against Hitler and desperately trying to draw America into the war?
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This is Middle East strategy brought to us by Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, the sage gurus of international diplomacy who we are told egged Obama on and figured they might outfox Bibi Netanyahu or, better yet, orchestrate his downfall.
However, in the video above Ferreira revealed why Minnelli could not sing: she was too touched because Liza has always thought that Bibi looks like her mother, Judy Garland, who was one year older than Bibi and died aged 47.
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