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Subject: Fwd : ZIONIST TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN
CALIFORNIA..
IRV RUBIN AND EARL KRUGEL WERE ALLEGEDLY GOING TO BOMB
A MOSQUE AND AN ARAB AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN'S OFFICE from COMPUSERVE.COM NEWS : EDITOR'S NOTE : THESE GUYS STARTED OUT 30 YEARS AGO BY BEATING UP BLACK KIDS AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE, ATTACKING RUSSIAN BALLET DANCERS AT
LINCOLN
CENTER AND BURNING DOWN EGYPTIAN TRAVEL AGENCIES HERE IN NEW
YORK.
I SEE THAT THE SO CALLED "JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE" HAS COME UP A BIT IN THE WORLD...NOW THEY USE BOMBS. BUT, IT'S KINDA FUNNY..IF THEY
HAD BEEN ARABS THEY'D BE CALLED TERRORISTS..BUT, SINCE
THEY ARE JEWISH..THEY'RE CALLED "MILITANTS". I WONDER WHY THAT IS???
THE ARTICLE :
JDL Chairman Accused of Bomb Plot By LINDA DEUTSCH LOS ANGELES (AP) - The chairman and another member of the militant Jewish
Defense League have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los Angeles mosque and the office of an
Arab-American congressman, federal authorities said
Wednesday.
JDL chairman Irv Rubin, 56, and Earl Krugel, 59, were arrested Tuesday night after the last component of the bomb -
explosive
powder was delivered to Krugel's home, U.S. Attorney John
Gordon
said. Other bomb components and weapons were seized at the
home.
Authorities said the two planned to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City and the office of freshman Rep. Darrell
Issa,
R-Calif.
Investigators were tipped off by a government source about a series of meetings where the plot was worked out, Gordon
said.
It was not immediately clear when the alleged plot began or what prompted it. In court papers, authorities quoted Krugel as
saying during a meeting that Arabs ``need a wake-up
call.''
Rubin and Krugel were booked on charges of conspiracy to destroy a building by means of an explosive, which carries up to
five
years in prison, and possession of a destructive device
related
to a crime of violence, which carries a 30-year mandatory
sentence.
They were expected to appear in court later Wednesday. Issa, 46, the grandson of Lebanese immigrants, serves on the House Committee on International Relations and supports
Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. His spokesman did not
immediately return calls.
Mosque director Tajuddin Shuaib said no threats had been received by the mosque. He noted that the alleged plot
came during the holy month of Ramadan, when as many as
1,000 people attend the mosque to pray.
"I can't understand why people would do such a thing," he said. "We are not against Jews. We are not against
anybody.
We are like any church or synagogue or
temple."
Gordon said the original target was to be the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles,but the target was changed
during a meeting last weekend.
Rubin's attorney, Peter Morris, said his client had nothing to do with the explosives. "It seems to us that, given
the
timing ... the government's action is part of an
overreaction
to the Sept. 11 events,'' he said.
Rubin's wife, Shelley, said her husband and Earl ``are completely innocent of anything. They are law-abiding, good people.'' Originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York, the JDL gained notoriety
when
its members were linked to bombings in the United States,
most
of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way
that
country treated its Jews.
Kahane left the JDL in the 1980s. A power struggle ensued, with Rubin among the contenders for its
leadership.
Kahane was assassinated in New York in 1990. El Sayyid Nosair, 36, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was convicted in connection
with
the shooting.
The JDL claims to have 13,000 members, but experts say it may have only few dozen active
members.
Rubin has made a career out of confrontation, challenging white supremacists to fistfights, or burning a Confederate flag outside a courthouse. By his own count he has been arrested more than 40
times. In 1980, he was tried and acquitted of soliciting the
murders
of Nazis in the United States.
A lawsuit filed by Rubin resulted in a court decision last year banning prayer during Burbank City Council
meetings.
Maher Hathout, a senior adviser for the Los Angeles chapter of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said the arrests sent an
encouraging message to the Muslim
community.
"We can easily develop an attitude that (federal authorities) are out to get us,'' he said. `"But it seems they are out
to
get anyone who breaks the law."
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