this was extremely timely with todays discussion;
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020610/ts_nm/attack_newyork_patrols_dc_1
Armed Jewish Residents Plan Patrols in New York
Mon Jun 10,11:35 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Residents armed with shotguns will patrol two heavily Jewish
neighborhoods of Brooklyn in response to a suspected bomber who said Islamic militants
once planned attacks on Jewish areas of New York, the leader of a right-wing Jewish
group said on Monday.
Rabbi Yakove Lloyd, founder and president of the relatively unknown Jewish Defense
Group, told Reuters the patrols would start June 16 every night for seven hours.
"Armed patrols and masses of people will act as a deterrent to any terrorist," Lloyd
said.
He said the armed patrols were in response to comments last week on CBS News "60
Minutes" by suspected bomber Abdul Rahman Yasin in Iraq that he and colleagues
originally planned to attack Jewish neighborhoods before deciding to bomb the World
Trade Center in 1993.
Six people were killed and 1,000 injured in the bombing, more than eight years before
Islamic militants, using hijacked passenger aircraft as missiles, destroyed the twin
towers last Sept. 11, killing 2,823 people.
Lloyd said so far, 50 residents had signed up for the patrols, including people who
work for law enforcement agencies and are licensed to carry 9 mm firearms. He said
others would carry 20-gauge and 12-gauge shotguns. It is illegal to carry an exposed
shotgun in New York but it was unclear whether they may be carried unloaded in a bag
or a case.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly was expected to comment on the patrols
later on Monday, his spokesman said.
"It was promised on 60 Minutes that we will be struck again because Yasin did say
Americans, Jews and other targets," Lloyd said. "We believe that they will think again
if they know there are armed patrols and that alone will save Jewish lives."
He said the patrols would be in the mostly-Jewish neighborhoods of Borough Park and
South Flatbush in the New York City borough of Brooklyn nightly from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m.
People who are not religious Jews would patrol over the Jewish Sabbath on Friday and
Saturday nights, the Rabbi said.
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