Obama faces 30 death threats a day

LAHORE: The rate of threats against US President Barack Obama has increased 400 percent from the 3,000 a year or so under former president George W Bush, Washington Times quoted Ronald Kessler, author of ‘In the President’s Secret Service’, as saying.The report said some threats to Obama “have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history”. However, most are kept secret because the secret service fears that revealing their details would “increase the number of copycat attempts”. Although most threats are not credible, each one has to be investigated meticulously, it said. The book revealed that the US president was being protected by an “increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced secret service”.