This just in from CBS 5:The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said Monday that
it broke up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee
murder spree.
In
court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob
a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American
high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads.
Shoot *or* decapitate? What the? Ya gonna pick which one sounds more convenient when the time arrives? This sounds like a group of people whose mouths are bigger than their bigoted abilities to actually pull anything off like this.
Still. Scary.
Stay tuned to
CBS5.com for more.
UPDATE, 1:36 p.m.:
More information from CBS 5: The Federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said Monday that it broke up a plot to
assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or
decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.
In
court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob
a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American
high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads.
Jim Cavanaugh, special
agent in charge of the Nashville field office for the ATF, 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."
UPDATE, 3:02 p.m.: Read the full affidavit.
