[August]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7581611.stm

'No evidence' of threat to Obama

Three men arrested on weapons and drugs charges in the US state of Colorado were not involved in a credible plan to kill Barack Obama, officials have said.
US Attorney Troy Eid said investigators had found "insufficient evidence of any kind of plot or threat" among the men.
Mr Eid said the threat instead appeared to have been the product of the "racist rantings" of methamphetamine addicts.



Earlier, one of the suspects said his friends may have wanted to shoot Mr Obama at the Democratic convention.



The Illinois senator is set to be nominated as the party's candidate for the US presidency at the gathering in Denver this week.

'True threat'
Speaking at a news conference in the city, Mr Eid said the three "meth heads" arrested on Sunday had not posed a "true threat" to Mr Obama because they simply would not have been capable.

"The alleged threats, hateful and bigoted though they were, involved a group of… methamphetamine abusers, all of whom were impaired at the time," he said.