Police in New York are searching for a man who has threatened to kill President Bush. Bush is currently in New York City to speak before the UN.
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Breaking news concerning President Bush's visit to New York. Eyewitness News is told that there has been a credible threat against the president
Monday.
Eyewitness News' political reporter Dave Evans says the first sign of something going on came when security around the president's visit set for
Monday night got even tighter than usual.
He says authorities are looking for a 55-year-old man named Lawrence Ward in connection with the reported threat.
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New York Daily News
Lawrence Ward, 59, left his upstate New York home Wednesday with a .30-30 lever-action hunting rifle in the trunk of his car, telling a neighbor,
"I'm not coming back."
Inside his house in Bainbridge was a picture of Bush with the words "Dead Man" spray-painted near it, law enforcement authorities said.
The Secret Service deemed Ward, a software engineer, such a "credible threat" that a three-square-block chunk of midtown was cordoned off.
Secret Service agents and city cops patrolled the area looking for anything suspicious.
Ward's ex-wife, Judith Ward, 59, who lives in Connecticut, told the Secret Service she thinks her former husband "is very dangerous and capable of
killing someone and/or committing suicide."
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Interestingly this was stated in a thread about the
October Surprise;
Originally posted by syntaxer
I think we'll see an assination attempt on George W Bush's life during the month of October.
The result will be a bullet to the shoulder of Bush followed by his mission to never give up on the war on terrosim, then he'll continue further by
stating not even an assasination attempt can stop his heroic fight to save the world.
A sniper assisination attempt is really the easiest thing to fake, even if the bullet to the shoulder part is real.
Are these stories someone laying the ground work for something? Would GWB being shot and surviving rally the country around him and get him
re-elected? I think people's views of GWB would soften were he to survive a snipers bullet.
[edit on 9/21/2004 by phreak_of_nature]
[edit on 28-9-2004 by Nerdling]
