30 May 2009
Newspaper says it has published an advertisement urging to kill Obama
Apologized to a local newspaper in northwestern Pennsylvania on Friday for publishing a secret declaration implicitly called for the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama.
"John Ailtshirt publisher of the Warren Times Observer, which distributed about 11 thousand copies, the paper published in the announcement on Thursday and returned immediately after the discovery that one of managers.
The ad says "Obama may follow the example of Lincoln, Garfield and Kennedy and McNeely."
Ailtshirt declined to identify the person who put the announcement and said he referred the case to the local police notified the Secret Service.
He said that the representative of the paper, which is not aware of the announcement, it seems the link between the four presidents who were murdered as they Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McNeely and John F. Kennedy and accidentally allowed the publication of the declaration.
He told Reuters: "It was an innocent mistake."
McCain, "said Jim, a spokesman for the Secret Service said investigators had identified the person who put the announcement, and they take it seriously. He added: "We do not have the luxury to do otherwise."
And fear about the safety of Obama early in his campaign to win the presidency, particularly among African Americans who expressed fear of the possibility to deliver the same fate as the black civil rights leader Martin Luther King, who was assassinated in 1968.
The Secret Service provides protection to over twenty-four hours for Obama, the first black president in the history of the United States since the early stage in the campaign.
The newspaper said on its website on Friday that the announcement "seemed to indicate a desire to give President Obama a premature end by linking the four presidents who were murdered."
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