DENVER POLICE FOIL POSSIBLE OBAMA ASSASSINATION PLOT PLANNED FOR THURSDAY AT DNC
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle4609445.ece
US police were investigating tonight if they had disrupted an assassination plot against Barack Obama after two men were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver with two rifles, a high-powered telescopic scope and the powerful stimulant methamphetamine.
The men were arrested in a routine incident involving a traffic policeman.
The first man, identified by a Denver television station as Tharin Gartrell, 28, was charged with suspicion of being a felon in possession of a weapon after police found the rifles in his car.
When police accompanied Mr Gartrell to his hotel in Denver a second man jumped from a window and was injured in a four-story fall. That man was then arrested.
Denver police refused to comment on reports that they might have foiled an assassination plot, but have scheduled a press conference for today.
Mr Obama, who will accept the Democratic presidential nomination in Denver on Thursday, has been under Secret Service protection for over a year after receiving credible death threats.
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