Two U.S. men charged in plot to kill Obama

Source: Xinhua | 10-28-2008 10:10

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Two U.S. men were charged Monday for plotting a "killing spree" against African-Americans that would have been capped with an attempt to kill Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate  Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama,  D-Ill. and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday Oct. 27,2008. 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. The men, Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells,  Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of West Helena, Ark., are being held without bond.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

The U.S. attorney's office in Jackson, Tennessee, said Daniel Cowart, 20, and Paul Schlesselman, 18, were self-described white supremacists who met online through a mutual friend.

The pair planned to kill more than 100 African-Americans, including 14 who would be beheaded.

According to an affidavit from the federal agent who questioned them, Cowart and Schlesselman planned to charge at Obama with a car, firing from the windows as they went.

They would be dressed in white tuxedos and top hats during the attempt, the affidavit states.

However, officials have not found any evidence that Cowart, from Tennessee, and Schlesselman, from Arkansas, had any details of Obama's schedule.