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FBI Arrests JDL Chairman, Follower
AP | 12/12/01 | AP

Posted on 12/12/2001 7:26:26 AM PST by anniegetyourgun

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The chairman of the Jewish Defense League were arrested in connection with a failed bombing plot, federal authorities said.

Irv Rubin, 56, and a member of the militant group, Earl Krugel, 59, were booked early Wednesday at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, detention center spokeswoman Donna Davis said.

The arrests late Tuesday were in connection with a bombing plot, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. He would not describe the alleged scheme except to say, "The bombing was not carried out."

Criminal charges should be filed later Wednesday, Mrozek said.

Law enforcement agencies raided a home identified by television stations as Krugel's late Tuesday night. Footage showed officers carrying out weapons and cardboard boxes.

Calls to the FBI, U.S. Customs and the JDL were not immediately returned.

The Jewish Defense League was originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York City. It gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country treated its Jewish population.

Kahane left the JDL and moved to Israel. 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earlkrugel; fbi; irvrubin; jdl
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1 posted on 12/12/2001 7:26:26 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
Thanks for finding this and posting it. I saw a brief clip on the local morning news here in L.A. but was unable to find any information on the local news websites.
2 posted on 12/12/2001 7:30:02 AM PST by 101viking
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Bump!

I don't know why, but the timing of this is troubling me.

3 posted on 12/12/2001 7:44:31 AM PST by 101viking
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To: 101viking
I saw this guy a few years ago on Springer. Jerry had him engaging in fist fights on air with KKK guys. He can really hold his own pretty well...
4 posted on 12/12/2001 7:49:01 AM PST by College Repub
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To: College Repub
I always thought he was a nutcase though...guess this proves it...
5 posted on 12/12/2001 7:50:51 AM PST by College Repub
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To: anniegetyourgun
If true, these thugs are terrorists and should be treated as such.
6 posted on 12/12/2001 7:51:51 AM PST by thesharkboy
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FBI Arrests JDL Chairman, Follower

Will they be investigated for any unsolved "hate crimes", that's what I want to know.

8 posted on 12/12/2001 7:53:18 AM PST by SocialMeltdown
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To: Plummz; aristeides
I have a feeling that there is something much larger going on here.
9 posted on 12/12/2001 7:55:42 AM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: anniegetyourgun
This is NOT the time to be a terrorist of ANY sort. Bad move, d00dZ!
10 posted on 12/12/2001 7:58:24 AM PST by Poohbah
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To: College Repub
Irv Rubin makes the rounds of the regular radio talk show circuit here in L.A. He has really toned down his act in the past few years, and from what I understand is a bit of celebrity among the Jewish population here. What troubles me is that this search and arrests are based on an old case from 1985 , and I have to wonder if the timing is related to the current Israeli/Palestinian problems. Could it be that someone is pushing this as part of an agenda? After all the Palestinians have been screaming that the Israelis use terrorist tactics, and according to the little information I have found on this matter, it appears that events related to the arrests might be considered terrorist in nature.
11 posted on 12/12/2001 8:00:01 AM PST by 101viking
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To: anniegetyourgun
Among Jews and Christians there seems to be a few far out there types, JDL and McVeigh militia sorts, among Islamists it sometimes seems to be par for the course.
12 posted on 12/12/2001 8:01:03 AM PST by scratchgolfer
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To: beecharmer
"Why do you say this is about 1985? This activity is reported yesterday."

Because on the local news this morning here in Los Angeles, it was reported that these searches and arrests were related to a 1985 bombing of an Arab Rights group offices. The details were sketchy, however the reporterette based the connection on information from the FBI, and they even showed footage of the bomb damage to the Arab groups offices.

15 posted on 12/12/2001 8:08:24 AM PST by 101viking
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To: beecharmer
Found this on the Antiwar.com webstite it's an excerpt:

Author: Justin Raimondo

Date: June 14 2000

Title: Behind The Headlines

Rubin has "a long history of political and social activism" alright ? it is the history of an organization of outright wackos and racists who are, furthermore, armed and dangerous. These are the same psychopaths who bombed the San Francisco branch of the Iranian Bank Melli on January 26, 1981 and a JDL bomb tore through the Iraqi UN Mission on April 28, 1982.. The JDL planted a bomb in the office of impresario Sol Hurok, who was targeted because he helped arrange performances of Soviet ballet troupes in the United States ? and killed one of Hurok's employees. On October 11, 1985, the Los Angeles offices of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) was bombed, killing the ADC director Alex Odeh, and on August 15 of the same year 1985, a sixty-one-year-old Tsherim Soobzokov, was bombed at his Paterson, N.J., home and later died of his wounds. As Anderson and Sloan put it: "In such attacks an anonymous caller would claim the action in the name of the JDL, and afterward an official JDL spokesman would disavow the group's responsibility. In 1987 several JDL members were convicted on a variety of criminal charges." When Odeh was killed, Kahane disassociated himself from the group and went to Israel, where he founded the virulently racist Kach movement. Kach advocates the forced expulsion of all Arabs (and non-Jews) from Greater Israel, the creation of a theocratic police state, and a relentless war against the Arab states.

19 posted on 12/12/2001 8:18:50 AM PST by 101viking
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To: beecharmer
Found this on the Antiwar.com webstite it's an excerpt:

Author: Justin Raimondo

Date: June 14 2000

Title: Behind The Headlines

Rubin has "a long history of political and social activism" alright ? it is the history of an organization of outright wackos and racists who are, furthermore, armed and dangerous. These are the same psychopaths who bombed the San Francisco branch of the Iranian Bank Melli on January 26, 1981 and a JDL bomb tore through the Iraqi UN Mission on April 28, 1982.. The JDL planted a bomb in the office of impresario Sol Hurok, who was targeted because he helped arrange performances of Soviet ballet troupes in the United States ? and killed one of Hurok's employees. On October 11, 1985, the Los Angeles offices of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) was bombed, killing the ADC director Alex Odeh, and on August 15 of the same year 1985, a sixty-one-year-old Tsherim Soobzokov, was bombed at his Paterson, N.J., home and later died of his wounds. As Anderson and Sloan put it: "In such attacks an anonymous caller would claim the action in the name of the JDL, and afterward an official JDL spokesman would disavow the group's responsibility. In 1987 several JDL members were convicted on a variety of criminal charges." When Odeh was killed, Kahane disassociated himself from the group and went to Israel, where he founded the virulently racist Kach movement. Kach advocates the forced expulsion of all Arabs (and non-Jews) from Greater Israel, the creation of a theocratic police state, and a relentless war against the Arab states.

20 posted on 12/12/2001 8:18:51 AM PST by 101viking
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