Threat Against Obama Is Taken 'Very Seriously'

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DENVER -- An apparently half-baked plot by three Denver-area men to assassinate Sen. Barack Obama on the basis of his race has highlighted the question of exactly what and whom to fear as Obama becomes the first black presidential nominee of a major party.

"We're taking it very seriously," said Troy Eid, the U.S. attorney for Colorado, at a news conference on Tuesday. But he said the racist rants that the men made after their arrests on Sunday -- all three for possession of methamphetamine, and two of them on weapons charges -- had not risen to the level of a "credible threat" that would have allowed federal charges of threatening Obama to be filed.

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Threat Against Obama Is Taken 'Very Seriously'

"It was one meth-head talking to another about life," Eid said...

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