Angry Indonesian Teabaggers Plot Against Obama

According to Michael Bloomberg, they're some homegrown nuts upset with the health care plan.

Indonesian police said today they had uncovered and foiled a plot to assassinate the president and other top officials, massacre foreigners in Mumbai-style attacks, declare an Islamic state, and possibly even kill Barack Obama.

The attackers planned to launch their assault during this year's Independence Day ceremony.

The ceremony, on August 17, will be attended by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the country's top dignitaries, national police chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters.

The plot also included taking over hotels and killing foreigners, especially Americans, in violence that would have been reminiscent of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, he said.

Earlier, an expert on militants said that U.S. President Barack Obama, who is due to visit Indonesia in June, was one of several suspected targets of the militants.

Intelligence expert Mardigu Wowi Prasantyo, who is close to the police investigation, said books and documents found in the raids suggested the militants planned an attack on Obama, possibly during his visit to Indonesia.

'They did not say it, but this was evident in their books and documents, that the leader of America was their enemy and should be attacked whenever possible,' he told Reuters by phone.

The plot was revealed during interrogations of dozens of suspects arrested since a February raid on a terrorist training camp in the western province of Aceh, Danuri said.

'They were confident that all state officials and dignitaries would be there,' Danuri said. 'Killing all the state officials would have accelerated the transition from a democracy to a state controlled by Islamic Shariah law.'

I guess we can now consider Obama's Muslim outreach to be another one of his failures.