Murder Case Uncovers Plot By US Soldiers to Assassinate President Obama

[Cali_Democrat]

US troops plotted to kill Obama
(UKPA) – 1 hour ago

Four US soldiers plotted to assassinate Barack Obama and overthrow the government, a court has heard.

Prosecutors in Georgia said they formed an anarchist militia within the military.

One, private Michael Burnett, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and gang charges in the killings last December of former soldier Michael Roark and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York.

Burnett said that Roark, who had just left the army, knew of the militia group's plans and was killed because he was "a loose end."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hsC_IXdTniMwr2OfKlcJwerhvnZg?docId=N0217241346081574898A

[spanone]

1. treason in the ranks....throw the book at them.

sounds more like first degree murder to me

[Pab Sungenis]

2. UK News source.

Wonder why American "news" outlets aren't talking about a planned coup.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. It is not that, this was put out in the AP wire

I have seen this before, 2004... cancellation of Republican Primaries. AP wire, ran on the Guardian.

[atreides1]

3. This can't be true

The Republicans were adamant in their belief that US troops would never do anything like this...

[LaydeeBug]

4. CBS link to the EXACT same article (someone earned their pay today)

sans the 'kill the president' part is now just 'overthrow the gov't' part. Wow


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501363_162-57500901/ga-murder-case-uncovers-terror-plot-by-soldiers/

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. And from a foreign news source

Our US media so sucks.

[spanone]

7. they managed to keep this quiet....how & why?

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Just heard it on the AP news on my car radio.

[KansDem]

6. Four US soldiers planned to overthrow the government?

I wonder who was backing them?

Prosecutor Isabel Pauley said the group bought 87,000 dollars (£55,000) of guns and bomb-making materials and plotted to take over Fort Stewart, bomb targets in Savannah and Washington state, as well as assassinate the president.

[Initech]

8. Domestic terrorists. Slap 'em with some serious treason charges.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. This is a clear-cut case of treason.

If something like this had happened when Dubya was in office, it would've been all over the news and people would've been calling for heads to roll. It's time to make an example of these scumbags.

[suffragette]

11. More here- suspicions leader may have also killed his wife

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYPyYH7SCCTj2nuq4gxSAfdwtUnQ?docId=bb5686042d4e40d9a1d07cfffab3d0a7

Pauley said Aguigui funded the militia using $500,000 in insurance and benefit payments from the death of his pregnant wife a year ago. Aguigui was not charged in his wife's death, but Pauley told the judge her death was "highly suspicious."

She said Aguigui used the money to buy $87,000 worth of semiautomatic assault rifles, other guns and bomb components that were recovered from the accused soldiers' homes and from a storage locker. He also used the insurance payments to buy land for his militia group in Washington state, Pauley said.

[jmowreader]

14. How many of them were Oath Keepers?

The Oath Keepers are a group of military people who have sworn to "disobey unconstitutional orders," and since they only sprang up after Obama was inaugurated that pretty much means any orders given to them by a Democratic president.