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LongTomH

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3. Maybe I should have said 'key figures!'

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 03:54 PM

Jan 2013

Only one month into the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last year, plans were formulated to identify key figures in the movement and execute them with a coordinated assault using sniper rifles, new documents reveal.

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Did the FBI know of a plot to assassinate key figures in Occupy? [View all] LongTomH Jan 2013 OP

There were OWS leaders? SunSeeker Jan 2013 #1

Maybe I should have said 'key figures!' LongTomH Jan 2013 #3

The US has been training snipers to shoot leaders oldbanjo Jan 2013 #13

Umm... everything we've seen says that the FBI didn't take it seriously (nt) Recursion Jan 2013 #2

And neither did anyone else. (nt) Tarheel_Dem Jan 2013 #5

Our Government has been training snipers to do this for many oldbanjo Jan 2013 #12

I wonder did they also follow the Tea Party? I bet they didn't southernyankeebelle Jan 2013 #4

They did, and the right wing blogosphere freaked out Recursion Jan 2013 #6

Good lord our country is in trouble. southernyankeebelle Jan 2013 #8

Investigate the Tea Party? Are you crazy! another_liberal Jan 2013 #10

LOL, talk about a double standard. southernyankeebelle Jan 2013 #11

A plot by whom? MynameisBlarney Jan 2013 #7

Open the F.B.I. and C.I.A. budgets to public review . . . another_liberal Jan 2013 #9

I may be mistaken but, 02potato Jan 2013 #14