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Skinhead plot to assassinate Obama 'not fully formed'
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-29 08:10 "The chances are excellent he was booted out when he was in the news in a way that didn't reflect wonderfully on them," Potok said. Attorneys for Cowart and Schesselman haven't commented, but Schlesselman's sister said Tuesday she spoke with him after the charges were made public. "He said he's sorry about everything he's done," she said. The plot was the third high-profile incident involving death threats against Obama in the last three months. Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, has pleaded not guilty to charges he threatened to assassinate Obama and President Bush. Authorities said Geisel kept an arsenal of weaponry and military gear and made the threats while attending a training class to become a bail bondsman. A group of men who sparked fears of an assassination plot against Obama during the Democratic Party's presidential convention in Denver in August. Authorities said the men had guns and bulletproof vests and made racist threats against Obama, but were high on methamphetamine and posed no true danger. |
