US foils plot to assassinate President Obama

Four US soldiers are suspected of forming an armed group with the aim of assassinating current President Barack Obama and overthrowing the government.

Anthony Peden (left) and Isaac Aguigui are escorted by police. This is a file photo taken on December 12, 2011.

RIA Novosti quoted the American newspaper Detroit Free Press as saying that all four people had been arrested. A prosecutor named Isabel Pauley said that the group included both active and former military personnel.

They spent $87,000 on guns and bomb-making equipment. Specifically, the group bought 15 guns, including semi-automatic assault rifles, at a gun store inWenatchee, stateWashington, in September 2011.

The group FEAR (an acronym for Forever Enduring Always Ready) plotted a series of attacks against the US government, including bombing a dam in the state ofWashingtonin the northwest of the United States and poisoned the apple crop in that state. There is no further information about the group's plot to assassinate President Obama.

The four are also suspected of killing a fellow gang member and his girlfriend to keep the plans secret, after he decided not to participate anymore. Former soldier Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend Tiffany York were shot dead in the woods in December 2011, the Huffington Post reported.

Police began keeping an eye on the group after receiving information from an unnamed relative of a group member named Isaac Aguigui, the group's founder and leader.

In addition to those arrested, prosecutors believe there may still be members of the group at large.

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