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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.

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.

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.

Even as the FBI downplays a possible plot on Barack Obama's life , CBS4's Bryan Maass reports additional details that sound like it could have been a serious threat