Uncovered: Al Qaeda Linked Terrorist Plot to Assassinate U.S. President Obama

Duncan Riley — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:50:45 +0000

The investigation into the hotel bombings in Jakarta last month also turned up strong evidence of an Al Qaeda linked plot to assassinate president Obama when he visits Indonesia this coming November.

During the probe to find out whether the hotel bombings were funded by terrorist sources outside the country, they found two of the four suspects were already prepped and trained as snipers for the attack on Obama. They had planned to attack Obama’s motorcade using Russian made MK-III sniper rifles, the same guns used by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

From the article at The Jakarta Globe:

“The alleged snipers were from a group called the Indonesian Islamic State, which has a training camp in the restive southern Philippines and also has received support from a group headed by Malaysian-born militant Noordin Mohammad Top, Chressbon said.

Top, who formed a violent wing of the Jemaah Islamiah militant network, is believed to be the mastermind behind July’s hotel attacks which killed nine people and wounded 53.

Since the hotel bombings, police have arrested at least five people and three others have been killed during raids, while police said a plot to attack Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had been thwarted.

Possible Al Qaeda Link

A possible Al Qaeda connection to the hotel attacks and other plots was also being investigated, Chressbon said, after two men believed to be from Yemen had stayed at the Marriott at the same time as an Indonesian called Syaifudin Zuhri bin Djaelani Irsyad, or SJ, who is believed to have recruited the suicide bombers.”
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Obama Assassination Attempt

Duncan Riley — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:18:09 +0000

An Obama assassination attempt has been disrupted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF.)

The plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads included assassinating Barack Obama and and then shooting or decapitating 102 African Americans, the ATF reported.

According to court documents, the pair discussed a “killing spree to include targeting a predominantly African-American school … they further stated that their final act of violence would be to attempt to kill/assassinate presidential candidate Barack Obama.”

The two in custody are Daniel Cowart, 20, and Paul Schlesselman 18 from Tennessee. Photos provided to the press (including the shot above) show Cowart with a Swastika tattoo and firearm. Agents seized a rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and three pistols from the men.

Cowart and Schlesselman are charged with possessing an unregistered firearm, conspiring to steal firearms from a federally licensed gun dealer, and threatening a candidate for president.

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