A plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in Tennessee has been broken up by the US government.
In court records unsealed tonight, agents from the American Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) said they had also disrupted what are thought to be related plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree.
The agency said the alleged attack also threatened to shoot or decapitate 102 black people in the state of Tennessee.
The plot was apparently being planned by two neo-Nazi skinheads who have been detained by US police.
ATF sources declined to comment on how far the plot had advanced or if the threat was credible.
The Obama campaign had no comment on the report.
