The FBI and the US Secret Service were investigating a possible assassination plot against Barack Obama today after four people linked to white supremacist groups and in possession of high-powered rifles were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver.
In an extraordinary jail cell interview with a local television reporter, one of the suspects said that his associates had planned to assassinate Mr Obama as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in an open-air sports stadium on Thursday night. That suspect, Nathan Johnson, 32, also allegedly told police that the plan had been to shoot Mr Obama "from a high vantage point using a rifle sighted at 750 yards". The Democratic candidate has been under Secret Service protection since May 2007 after a series of credible death threats. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4609445.ece ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
