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November 7, 2005
US: Earl Krugel, Mosque Plotter, Killed in Prison
Earl Leslie Krugel (pictured), a Jewish Defence League activist, has been murdered in a federal prison in Arizona, states the Guardian. He had been serving a sentence of 20 years, imposed in September, for plotting to blow up a California mosque, and also the office of a Lebanese-American congressman, Darrell Issa. The FBI has launched a murder inquiry.
According to Krugel's widow Lola, FBI officials said that her husband had been struck from behind with a concrete block. He had admitted the crime, and had only been at the medium security jail for three days. He had been arrested with Irv Rubin for attempting to blow up the Kig Fahd Mosque in Culver City, Los Angeles. Bomb-making equipment was discovered at his home. A co-conspirator, Danny Gillis, who was scheduled to plant the explosives, had tipped off the police and the pair had been arrested. Irv Rubin apparently killed himself while awaiting trial.
The Jewish Defance leaue had been founded by volatile rabbi Meir Kahane in 1968. The New York rabbi had argued for the removal of all Arabs from Israel before he was assassinated in 1990.
Krugel was born in Detroit in 1942. His supporters' website, earl krugel,com carries obituaries and part of an autobiography Krugel had written.
I was born into a modest, but warm and loving home in Detroit in '42. I remember my Dad teaching me how to protect myself. That was how he described what he taught me."This is so you can defend yourself, Son. And so you can defend others. I would never stand by and watch another human being harassed and bullied, and I think you'll feel the same way."He was so right. I did have to, reluctantly, use the techniques Dad had shown me to keep smaller kids, girls, and passive kids from being mistreated in school. After a few fights at school with some of the bullies they pretty much left me alone, and more importantly, they left my friends alone, which was pretty much all the kids at school. It never seemed heroic, protecting the other kids, it just seemed like what a guy should do.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 7, 2005 1:39 AM
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