The Colorado Independent

Court docs: Suicide mission planned in plot to kill Obama at DNC

By Ernest Luning | 09.03.08 | 1:12 pm

Denver’s 9NEWS reports the FBI asked for more serious charges to be filed against at least one of the suspects arrested last week in a suspected plot to kill Barack Obama during the Democratic National Convention. Federal court documents obtained by reporter Jace Larson describe a plot to assassinate Obama in a suicide mission using a gun hidden inside a camera.

Feds: Obama plot “more aspirational, perhaps, than operational”

By Ernest Luning | 08.27.08 | 7:30 pm

The three men arrested Sunday suspected of a plot to kill Barack Obama will face weapons and drug charges but won’t face assassination-related charges, Colorado’s U.S. attorney said at a news conference Tuesday.

Feds to speak on possible plot to kill Obama

By Ernest Luning | 08.26.08 | 2:13 pm

The U.S. Attorney for Colorado, Troy Eid, will talk to the press at 4 p.m. Tuesday about the arrest Sunday of four suspects in a plot to shoot Barack Obama during his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.