Two indicted in Obama 'assassination plot' case

A US federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, has indicted two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill US President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.

Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowart and 18-year-old Paul Schlesselman were arrested last month, before Mr Obama won the presidential election. They are being held without bond.

They were indicted today on charges of possessing a sawn-off shotgun, planning to rob a licenced gun dealer and threatening a presidential candidate.

Authorities say they plotted a killing spree that would end with them attacking Mr Obama while dressed in white tuxedos and top hats.

Court records indicate Cowart and Schlesselman conceived the plot on their own and it fell apart quickly.