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Wed 10 Oct 2008Skinhead duo planned drive-by assassination
TWO WHITE supremacists arrested in Tennessee planned to assassinate Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama while dressed in white tuxedos and wearing top hats and shooting from a speeding car, court documents released yesterday allege.
Daniel Cowart (20) from Tennessee and Paul Schlesselman (18) from Arkansas were arrested on Wednesday for possessing firearms, making threats against a presidential candidate and conspiring to rob a gun store. The pair, who abandoned the gun shop robbery plan, came to the attention of police in Jackson, Tennessee after they had shot out the window of a church and used chalk to put white supremacist slogans on their car.
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