(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."
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