Irv Rubin, Jewis Defense Legue, in fin di vita

[white_rage]

Il presidente della Jewish Defense Legue, Irv Rubin, in carcere per aver progettato un attentato ad una moschea e ad un parlamentare arabo-americano, si trova in fin di vita dopo un presunto tentativo di suicidio in cui si sarebbe tagliato la gola e poi gettato dalla finestra. Tuttavia secondo la famiglia si sarebbe trattato di un "hit" cioe' di un tentato (e quasi riuscito) omicidio.
Da accertare se i detenuti stessi siano stati coinvolti.


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JDL's Irv Rubin Brain Dead After Suicide Attempt


Nov. 4

— By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jewish Defense League Chairman Irv Rubin, jailed for allegedly plotting to bomb a mosque and the offices of a Arab-American congressman, was left brain dead and on life support on Monday after slitting his throat in a suicide attempt.

"He is on life support and his prognosis is dire," Rubin's attorney, Bryan Altman, told Reuters. "He is brain dead. I don't know if there is any indication that that can change in a positive way."

Rubin, 57, had been taken from his cell at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles at about 5 a.m. PST (8 a.m. EST) on Monday when he slashed his throat with a razor blade and then jumped or fell over a railing.

He was rushed to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and underwent surgery for wounds to his neck and throat and severe head injuries from the fall but did not regain consciousness, U.S. Marshal's spokesman William Woolsey said.

The fiery, controversial Rubin, who emigrated to the United States from Canada in 1961 and has been national chairman of the JDL since 1985, was arrested in December and charged along with another member, Earl Krugel, with the bomb plot on the testimony of an undercover informant.

Prosecutors say that Rubin and Krugel conspired with the informant to plant bombs at the King Fahd Mosque in the Los Angeles suburb of Culver City and an office of Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican of Lebanese Christian descent.

The indictment against Rubin alleged that Krugel, a dental hygienist, planned to build a bomb in his own garage and that the informant was to carry out a bombing the next day. Rubin allegedly approved the bombing plans and selected the targets.

Rubin and Krugel were charged with conspiracy, conspiracy to use a destructive device, attempted arson, attempted arson of a federal facility, possession of a destructive device and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

FACING LIFE IN PRISON

Both men, who pleaded innocent, faced a maximum punishment of life in prison if convicted. They were due in court on Monday for a status conference in the case.

"I was informed that Irv tried to slit his throat with a razor blade he obtained and then jumped over a railing and landed 20 feet below on a cement floor," Krugel's attorney Mark Werksman said.

"He's been despondent for months and the pressure of the upcoming trial weighed heavily on him," Werksman said. "He's been deteriorating for some time and the pressure of the Monday court appearance may have pushed him over the top."

Defense lawyers said the JDL has been a target of FBI investigations for more than 15 years. The December arrests of the two men came amid heightened tensions following the Sept. 11 attacks on Washington and New York City, they said.

Rubin, who is married with two sons, assumed leadership of the militant Jewish group in 1985 from its controversial founder, Rabbi Meir Kahane, who moved to Israel to form a political movement. Kahane was assassinated in 1990 in New York.

Rubin, long a thorn in the side of mainstream Jewish groups, often challenged what he said was their willingness to "turn the other cheek," preferring a more combative approach that included praising an Israeli settler who turned his gun on people praying in a mosque in a killing spree.

In 1978, Rubin was charged with soliciting murder after he held a press conference to protest a march in Skokie, Illinois, by the American Nazi Party and offered to pay anyone who killed or maimed a Nazi. He was ultimately cleared.

Authorities also investigated the JDL in connection with the 1985 murder of Arab- American activist Alex Odeh, which has never been solved. Rubin said at the time that Odeh had gotten "exactly what he deserved."

Though the JDL has become marginalized in recent years and membership has dwindled, Rubin has been a loud and familiar presence at protests -- turning up almost daily at the murder trial of O.J. Simpson to spar with the former football star's supporters -- and took pride in his more than 40 arrests.

In September, he won from behind bars a ruling by a California appeals court that barred officials in suburban Burbank from invoking Jesus Christ at public meetings.

[corneliu zelea]

Originally posted by white_rage
Il presidente della Jewish Defense Legue, Irv Rubin, in carcere per aver progettato un attentato ad una moschea e ad un parlamentare arabo-americano, si trova in fin di vita dopo un presunto tentativo di suicidio in cui si sarebbe tagliato la gola e poi gettato dalla finestra. Tuttavia secondo la famiglia si sarebbe trattato di un "hit" cioe' di un tentato (e quasi riuscito) omicidio.
Da accertare se i detenuti stessi siano stati coinvolti.



----In 1978, Rubin was charged with soliciting murder after he held a press conference to protest a march in Skokie, Illinois, by the American Nazi Party and offered to pay anyone who killed or maimed a Nazi. He was ultimately cleared---

CHI LA FA....

[enrique lister]

era ora....la Jdl, per la cronaca, fu il primo gruppo terrorista a compiere un attentato su suolo statunitense. Colpì uno sportello dell'Aeroflot sovietica. Mi sembra fosse il '79.
sempre per la cronaca, lo stragista Baruch Goldstein proveniva dalle loro file...

stasera si festeggia

[gribisi]

Originally posted by enrique lister
era ora....la Jdl, per la cronaca, fu il primo gruppo terrorista a compiere un attentato su suolo statunitense. Colpì uno sportello dell'Aeroflot sovietica. Mi sembra fosse il '79.
sempre per la cronaca, lo stragista Baruch Goldstein proveniva dalle loro file...

stasera si festeggia

Cos'è lister, gli omicidi mirati vanno bene solo quando sono sionisti?

[L'Uomo Tigre]

[I'm Hate]

AHHHHH!AH!AH!
CREPA RUBIN,SIONISTA DI MERDA!

[enrique lister]

Originally posted by gribisi
Cos'è lister, gli omicidi mirati vanno bene solo quando sono sionisti?

guarda che pare si sia tentato di suicidare....del resto chi può voler male ad un angioletto del genere?

e cmq stai tranquillo: mi hai mai sentito spandere lacrime per l'uccisione di dirigenti di Hamas?

[white_rage]

In ogni caso non e' morto, anzi mentre gli avvocati in un primo momento avevano affermato che ci fosse morte cerebrale, i medici lo hanno invece dichiarato in gravissime condizioni ma in ripresa.

Rispettiamo i morti...quando sono morti.

Come ribadito innumerevoli volte, chi scrive non
e' antisemita. Personaggi come Rubin sono
criminali predicatori di odio ed' e' per questo motivo
che che vanno giudicati negativamente.

Tuttavia nonostante l'immagine repellente,
Rubin e chi come lui sono in fondo delle vittime,
imprigionati in carceri mentali create da qualcun'altro.

Chi dedica la propria esistenza ad odiare avra' invero
molto da pentirsi, una volta che abbia raggiunto
l'altra sponda.

Si badi bene a non essere la immagine speculare degli Irv Rubin.

La pagina di Rubin si trova a

www_jdl_org/information/chairman/



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Jewish Defense League says jailed

leader Irv Rubin in critical condition from injuries

SANDRA MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, November 6, 2002




(11-06) 18:25 PST LOS ANGELES (AP) --

Relatives and legal representatives of Jewish Defense League leader Irv Rubin called for a full investigation of how he was injured in federal custody on bomb plot charges. Authorities say he hurt himself in a suicide attempt.

"We want to see the videotapes from inside the jail," Rubin's wife, Shelley, said in a statement Wednesday.

Rubin, 57, was in critical condition at County-USC Medical Center after undergoing a second surgery Tuesday, according to his family. The operation included wiring shut his broken jaw.

Rubin's attorneys said Monday that their client was brain-dead after surgery, but Shelley Rubin said later that brain activity was detected.

Rubin was injured Monday morning hours before he was to appear in U.S. District Court on charges that he and co-defendant Earl Krugel had plotted to bomb a mosque and the office of an Arab American congressman.

Federal officials said Rubin slashed his neck with a prison-issued razor blade and tumbled 18-feet over a railing at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center.

The trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 21. U.S. marshal's spokesman Bill Woolsey said it remained to be seen if Rubin would be mentally fit to stand trial.

"I can't comment on that. I think it's up to God," Woolsey said.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said interviews with witnesses -- including officers and inmates -- left no doubt about the cause of Rubin's injuries.

"Without specifying too much, it is still a pending matter, there is nothing to indicate that Mr. Rubin suffered from anything other than self-inflicted wounds," Bosley said.

Shelley Rubin and lawyers representing her husband plan a press conference Thursday to issue their appeal for a full investigation.

"My Irv is a fighter and he will survive this," Shelley Rubin said in the statement.

Rubin and Krugel were arrested Dec. 11 on charges of plotting to bomb the King Fahd mosque in suburban Culver City and an office of Rep. Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif., who is the grandson of Lebanese immigrants.

Rubin and Krugel were arrested after an FBI informant delivered an explosive powder that authorities believed was the last component in making pipe bombs. The charges carry up to 40 years in prison upon conviction.

Rubin, who by his own account has been arrested more than 40 times, joined the JDL early in the 1970s and quickly moved up, becoming chairman in 1985.

The JDL, whose symbol is a raised fist inside a Star of David, has the motto "Never Again," referring to the Holocaust. It was founded in 1968 by Meir Kahane to mount an armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York City.

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