The ATF today said that it has intervened in a plot by two neo-nazi skinheads to assassinate Presidential candidate Barack Obama, as well as to kill and decapitate 102 black people in Tennessee.
The two males, Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tennessee, and Paul Schlesselman 18, of West Helena, Arkansas, are being held without bond. The pair have been charged with illegally possessing a sawed-off shotgun, conspiracy to rob a federally licensed gun dealer and making threats against a presidential candidate.
The ATF said that they disrupted plans by the two men to rob a gun store and target a high school that has a majority of African American students. When they were arrested, agents recovered a sawed-off shotgun, a rifle and three pistols.
Special Agent Jim Cavanaugh gave more details this afternoon, saying that the men planned to shoot 88 black people and remove the heads of 14 more. The two numbers, 88 and 14, have significance within the white supremacist community. After they had done this, the planned to take their killing spree nationally, eventually meeting up with Barack Obama and attempting to kill him, even if it meant that they themselves died trying but were unsuccessful.
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