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Apparently there has been quite a bit of deadly chatter on the streets, on the internet, and at even some churches and community centers around the country; Obama must die. This has raised concern for the Secret Service, while other are asking if the Secret Service is even up to the task of protecting such an important president as Obama.
Read the article and discuss your ideas about the why, who and how Obama should be protected?Apparently there has been quite a bit of deadly chatter on the streets, on the... more
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WASHINGTON — Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday.
In court records unsealed Monday, federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville field office for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the two men planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.
The men also sought to go on a national killing spree, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.
"They said that would be their last, final act _ that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama," Cavanaugh said. "They didn't believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying."
An Obama spokeswoman traveling with the senator in Pennsylvania had no immediate comment.
The men, Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of West Helena, Ark., are being held without bond. Agents seized a rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and three pistols from the men when they were arrested. Authorities alleged the two men were preparing to break into a gun shop to steal more.
Attorney Joe Byrd, who has been hired to represent Cowart, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.
Cowart and Schlesselman are charged with possessing an unregistered firearm, conspiring to steal firearms from a federally licensed gun dealer, and threatening a candidate for president.
The investigation is continuing, and more charges are possible, Cavanaugh said.
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He was powerful, having helped Paul Martin dispatch former prime minister Jean Chretien from 24 Sussex Drive. Then he cemented his reputation for strategic brilliance by leading underdog Stephane Dion to the federal party's leadership. Now it's all gone wonky.
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A master of the ancient martial art of taekwondo says North Korean agents recruited him in a failed plot to kill a South Korean president.A master of the ancient martial art of taekwondo says North Korean agents recruited... more
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CBS4 has learned at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges.
CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass reported one of the suspects told authorities they were "going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a ... rifle … sighted at 750 yards."
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The man who killed John Lennon says he's sorry he shot the legendary rocker - but disputed media reports on how the murder went down.
"I shot him in the back," Mark David Chapman told a two-person Parole Board panel last week during a hearing before being denied release for a fifth time.
He denied longstanding media accounts that he called out to Lennon as he and his wife, Yoko Ono, returned to their Dakota building apartment after a late-night recording session.
"I don't recall saying, 'Mr. Lennon,'" Chapman said. "I think that was something the press elaborated on. That didn't happen. He didn't turn. I shot him in the back."
Chapman, who is serving a 20-year-to-life sentence at the upstate Attica Correctional Facility for the Dec. 8, 1980, murder, said he's not the same man today.
"I am ashamed," Chapman said. "I am sorry for what I did. That 25-year-old man, I don't think he appreciated the life he was taking, that this was a human being.
"I feel now at 53 that I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. I have changed a lot."
Chapman said while he might have had a beer that day, he was not on drugs and was of "clear mind" when he succumbed to his "compulsion" to kill Lennon.
He said he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder "for my conscience's sake. I felt the Lord had told me to plead guilty at that time, and I did."
Chapman retold how he traveled to New York City twice to kill Lennon.
"I had been going through some problems and was very confused ... and was feeling like a big nothing and a nobody," he said.
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