Protesters Targeted Obama Campaign HQ

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 4:57PM EDT / Published May 20, 2012 7:40AM EDT

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Three men charged with making Molotov cocktails in preparation for this weekend’s NATO-summit protests in Chicago had plans to attack Obama’s campaign headquarters and Rahm Emanuel’s house, prosecutors said Saturday. The men were arrested in a raid Wednesday that defense attorneys say was nothing more than a scare tactic designed to quell protests planned around the meeting of world leaders in the city. “We believe this is all a setup and entrapment to the highest degree,” defense attorney Michael Deutsch told reporters.

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Protesters Targeted Obama Campaign HQ

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