Police Investigate Possible Plot To Kill Obama

WCCO.com ^ | 8/25/08 | CBS

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Law enforcement authorities have arrested two men in connection with a possible assassination plot against Sen. Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention in Denver, CBS station KCNC-TV reported Monday.

Police in Aurora, Colo. made a routine traffic stop at 2:38 a.m. Sunday, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office. Two rifles were found in the car, along with methamphetamine. Another law enforcement source says he was told at least one of the rifles was a "sniper rifle."

A second source told CBS station KCNC-TV reporter Brian Maass that authorities told officers they are concerned they may have come upon a possible "assassination plot."

That arrest then led authorities to a second man staying at the Cherry Creek Hotel in Glendale, Colo. When authorities knocked on the man's door, they say he jumped out of his sixth floor window, landing on an awning and running from the scene. They say they soon found him with a broken ankle. He too was arrested.

Its unclear precisely why authorities suspect the men were targeting Barack Obama, but one of the officer's who was briefed says he was told at least one of the suspects made statements to that effect.

The Secret Service, ATF and the FBI are all involved in the investigation. A Secret Service spokesman says the agency is concerned by the proximity to the Democratic National Convention and the items found in the man's car.

[weegee]

Did they have a white van?

Is there a Moose involved in the investigation?

[kcvl]

My name is Majid Al-Bahadli. Since I have become an American citizen I have voted in every election

Majid AL-Bahadli

Because he would begin a new history, with a new face of America. He (Obama) will make people from all over the world love the land of freedom not the land of Bush. He is a man who is able to change the country and in less than a year he will be able to create a more peaceful world. I see a hope become a dream and a dream become real. With Obama as president, we will have a human rights revolution where Americans will earn the respect from the rest of the world that we deserve.

Issues: equality / civil rights; civil liberties / privacy; peace & social justice; foreign policy / security; economic fairness / security; environment / conservation; smart energy policy; public infrastructure / transportation; good government / ethics; electoral reform; affordable health care; education

Maybe he should move back to Baghdad since he is not very pleased with how we run this country!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

For all of these reasons and many more.....I chose NOT to post this to Breaking News......

[skinkinthegrass]

...and KY bourbon.
...not just any KY Bourbon....Kentucky and environs is the home of some of the finest whisky on Earth and the birthplace of Bourbon. One of my favorites is Maker’s Mark, an exceptionally smooth sipping whisky, or Bourbon, as they call it. Another brand that is neck and neck for drinkability and all around superior quality is Woodford Reserve, a product of Labrot and Graham’s Woodford Reserve Distillery of Versailles, Kentucky.

[patriot08]

“...and one day I turn on infidels and blow them up”

[kcvl]

So, now Obama is letting former terrorists become delegates for him?!

******

Majid Al-Bahadli, an Iraqi-American who had once been imprisoned by the US govt

born in Baghdad and locked up by the U.S. as a prisoner of war for nearly five years

[kcvl]

“...and one day I turn on infidels and blow them up”

He was a prisoner in the US for 5 years! Obama does love these terrorists!

[xc1427]

Yes, they are homophobic. :)

[patriot08]

A$$hole. (Obama, not you)

[Waco]

Hilarys getting desparate?

[CaliGirl-R]

“Something about this has the BS-o-meter pegged.”

Same here. When they found that guy with poison, dead in his Denver hotel room, the first thing said is “We don’t think this is terror related”.

They find a couple guys with guns and drugs, the first thing said is “Plot to kill obama”.

[CaliGirl-R]

“It’s unclear precisely why authorities suspect the men were targeting Barack Obama, but one of the officer’s who was briefed says he was told at least one of the suspects made statements to that effect.”

They probably asked the suspect if he was going to vote for obama and he said “No and I mean hell NO” :)

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Drunks and druggies tend to say stuff to the cops that they would never say, were they sober.....

[Tucker39]

If any other TV station than a SeeBS station had broadcast this story I might take it seriously. But I agree with you’ My BS-Ometer went into automatic shutdown because of system overload.

Howcum Fox nor anyone else had the story?

[NRA2BFree]

Let me guess, they are white, have KKK tattooed across their foreheads, a car loaded with guns and bibles, voted republican in the last election were home schooled and are against abortion....did I leave anything out?

Yep, you forgot to mention that they're bald. ;o)

[clamper1797]

Probably just some drama planted by Obamabots.

Now THAT I will buy

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Update....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2068036/posts

[ctdonath2]

sniper rifle. That’s not something that most people have.

Major caliber, like .308 or .30-06?
10x scope?
Match ammo with ballistics chart?

Tens of millions of Americans indeed have "sniper rifles".

[HundredDollars]

I guess they were worried about a sniper rifle. That’s not something that most people have.

DFU, I'm surprised at this response from you. Someone with your political awareness surely realizes ‘sniper rifle’ is MSM and JBT speak for any gun with a scope. And in Colorado that is something many people would have.

It may turn out that these guys had some serious hardware and were up to no good, but the media has zero credibility when it comes to using the following terms: sniper rifle, assault weapon, assault rifle, assault pistol, assault ‘anything,’ machine gun, automatic rifle, arsenal, cache, armory, compound, militia, casing, bullet, cartridge, clip, magazine, thousands of rounds of ammunition, etc.

If you just generally assume the “journalist” is an idiot trying to use scary words of which he/she doesn't know the meaning to describe an innocuous situation you'll be right way more often than not. The truly newsworthy stories will stick around long enough to learn the details. If they don't it probably menas there was no 'there' there.