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Skinhead Pleads Guilty to Obama Assassination Plot

HeadlineMar 30, 2010

A white power skinhead from Tennessee has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to carry out a killing spree targeting African Americans, including then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. Daniel Cowart said he had plotted with a man from Arkansas to carry out a racially motivated plot to murder dozens of people. He said he had planned to culminate the attacks by assassinating Obama. Under terms of a plea agreement, Cowart faces between ten and seventy-five years in prison.

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