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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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To: veronica
Actually 60 Israel were detained for MINOR immigration charges - most have already returned to Israel.

Yeah, don't you just wish . …. I think I'll just wait and see the list FOX NEWS has!

41 posted on 12/12/2001 9:24:34 AM PST by MACD
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To: anniegetyourgun
THe JDL does not believe in assault on people's values but does believe in revenge when they see others assaulting with the iron Jews for their values. They are the equivalent to the Christian abortion clinic "terrorists".
42 posted on 12/12/2001 9:27:28 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: madrussian; malarski; Askel5; GROUCHOTWO; Zviadist; kristinn; Free the USA; struwwelpeter...
Oops! Überman dude will be upset again.

Jewish Defense League chief arrested in L.A.  

    LOS ANGELES, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Two members of the militant 
Jewish Defense League, including its chairman, have been arrested 
at their homes in suburban Los Angeles in connection with an 
alleged bomb plot, federal officials said on Wednesday. 
 FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley identified the two men, who were 
taken into custody late Tuesday, as JDL Chairman Irv Rubin and 
JDL member Earl Krugel. 
    U.S. Attorney's office spokesman Tom Mrozek said the two men 
were arrested "in relation to a bombing plot" but gave no further 
details. 
    Rubin and Krugel are expected to appear in court later on 
Wednesday when bail and future court dates will be set, Mrozek 
said. Further details of the arrests were expected to be released 
later in the day. 
    A relative of one of the men told reporters he thought the 
arrests were connected to the 1985 assassination in Santa Ana, 
California, of Alexander Odeh, regional director of the American 
Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. But Bosley said the men were 
not arrested in connection with Odeh's death. 
    Earl Krugel's brother, Barry Krugel, said agents raided his 
brother's home, and in the process broke the door down. He said 
that any weapons removed from his brother's home were legally 
owned. 
    The raid was conducted by a multi-agency antiterrorism task 
force, according to video camera operators on the scene. 
    The arrests follow federal grand jury proceedings in Los 
Angeles earlier this year when Rubin, the 59-year-old Krugel 
brothers and others were questioned about Odeh's death, a JDL 
source told reporters. 
    Odeh was killed when he opened the door to his office and a 
bomb exploded. The night before he had appeared on television 
defending the Palestine Liberation Organization. A $1 million 
reward was offered in 1996 for information leading to the 
discovery of Odeh's killers. 
    Rubin has said the JDL played no role in Odeh's death, but 
added he shed "no tears" over the slaying. 
    The JDL was founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was 
assassinated in New York in 1990. Prior to his death he founded  
the extremist KACH party in Israel which advocated the expulsion 
of all Arabs from Israel and Israeli-occupied territories. The 
party was later outlawed. 
 ((Sarah Tippit, Los Angeles newsroom, +1 213-955-6776, fax +1 
213-622-0056, sarah.tippit@reuters.com)) 
   

12 DEC 2001 17:59:55
   -¦-  http://www.reuters.co.il/news2000/N2SCK4I5.HTM

43 posted on 12/12/2001 9:29:28 AM PST by CommiesOut
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To: MACD
Yeah, don't you just wish . …. I think I'll just wait and see the list FOX NEWS has!

I don't post what I wish - I post what I KNOW.

44 posted on 12/12/2001 9:33:36 AM PST by veronica
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To: Fred Mertz; Justin Raimondo
Eh, maybe. I read this headline as ADL at first . . now THAT would have been news. This JDL guy has always been a bit nutty. I'm pinging Raimondo because I think he's written on them and may be able to shed some light.
45 posted on 12/12/2001 10:57:12 AM PST by Plummz
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To: CommiesOut
Tom Mrozek? Must be a Polish anti-semite.
46 posted on 12/12/2001 10:58:04 AM PST by madrussian
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To: madrussian
LOL! You hit the nail on the head.
Btw, Slawomir Mrozek's works are almost as good as Kafka or Hasek.
48 posted on 12/12/2001 11:07:52 AM PST by CommiesOut
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To: Poohbah
Exactly. A terrorist is a terrorist. And these terrorists can consider themselves B-u-s-t-e-d.
49 posted on 12/12/2001 11:37:33 AM PST by cascademountaineer
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To: Plummz; CommiesOut
ADL, JDL... Using a saying I heard in Russia, "same nuts, different view". For CommiesOut, "te zhe yaitsa, vid sboku".
50 posted on 12/12/2001 11:58:10 AM PST by madrussian
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To: madrussian
Sounds similar: "te same jajca ale widok z boku (profilu)"
More
51 posted on 12/12/2001 12:21:57 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: CommiesOut
I thought Judaism was a peaceful religion???
52 posted on 12/12/2001 12:28:01 PM PST by Davidb72
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To: madrussian
very funny comment

but you know madrussian you are not doing a good job of assimilating. You are supposed to be a sheeple, you are too insightful and you understand too much.

53 posted on 12/12/2001 12:29:43 PM PST by Red Jones
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To: CommiesOut
Sounds similar

Actually, the guy who introduced this expression had served in Poland, so the origin is probably Polish.

He also said that blacks were called "chernuh" by Poles, which sounds kind of funny in Russian.

54 posted on 12/12/2001 12:51:21 PM PST by madrussian
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To: Davidb72
Hey, "Judeo-Christians" are gonna come and whine at your comment. LOL!
55 posted on 12/12/2001 12:53:10 PM PST by madrussian
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To: Red Jones
Un-Americans stink from a mile away, they are so obvious.
56 posted on 12/12/2001 12:57:02 PM PST by madrussian
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To: madrussian
"czarny" means "black" and is ok. Official and PC form is "murzyn".
Strange world, isn't it? What is ok in one lang. is un-PC or funny in the other.
57 posted on 12/12/2001 1:02:20 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: madrussian
I hope not...
58 posted on 12/12/2001 1:12:18 PM PST by Davidb72
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To: anniegetyourgun
The liberal media reminds us 24 hours a day, 365 days a yaear of the dangers posed by "White Supremacists", "Chrisitan Fundamentalists" and "Muslim Fundamentalists". We hear no end of it. On and on TV show after TV show reminds us of the great danger.

Yet, we never see a single TV show about the dangers posed by Jewish Supremacists and Jewish Fundamentalists, such as those in the JDL.

Just another example of the bias of the liberal media.

59 posted on 12/12/2001 1:14:40 PM PST by Marduk
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To: lavaroise
Exactly.
60 posted on 12/12/2001 3:00:40 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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