-Caveat Lector- Jewish militant to plead guilty to bomb plot http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,888390,00.html Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Tuesday February 4, 2003 The Guardian
A senior official in the Jewish Defence League is to plead guilty today to a plot to blow up a mosque in the Los Angeles area and the office of a Lebanese-American congressman. Earl Krugel, 60, a dental hygienist, will make the plea in exchange for a 10- to 20-year term rather than a mandatory 40-year sentence. His co-defendent, Irv Rubin, the national chairman of the JDL, died last November after cutting his throat and leaping from a balcony while awaiting trial in jail in Los Angeles. Krugel and Rubin were arrested in December 2001 after an FBI informer had delivered explosives to Krugel and had taped discussions of the plot. Bomb parts, instruction manuals and anti-Arab literature were also found at Krugel's house. Rubin, chairman of the JDL since 1985, had allegedly given the informant, a young JDL recruit, instructions to bomb the King Fahd mosque in Culver City, south of Beverly Hills. A list of other "filthy mosques" - as Krugel called them on tape - had been drawn up to give Arabs what he described as a "wake-up call". Part of the plot was to blow up the San Clemente offices of Darrell Issa, a Lebanese-American Republican congressman. There was also a plan to blow up the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles. Mr Issa welcomed the plea. "Americans reject extremists who seek influence through the use of terror, whatever the source, at home and abroad," he said. The King Fahd mosque, where security has been stepped up since the plot became public, also welcomed the plea. Krugel, who has recently married a French woman, will agree not to have contact with any JDL members or former members after his release as part of the deal. His lawyers said he had accepted the deal because the climate in the US was not sympathetic to a defendant in a terrorism case. Founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane, the JDL once had 18,000 members with its logo of a fist inside the Star of David and its slogans of: "Every Jew with a .22" and "Keep Jews alive with a .45." But membership has dwindled as the league has been shunned as an embarrassment for its extremist views by mainstream Jewish organistions in the US. Part of the reason for the bomb plot, according to the FBI informant, a 22- year-old former member of the US Navy called Danny Gillis, was Rubin's desire to show that the JDL was still "alive in a militant way." Guardian Unlimited � Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it." The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
