Earl Leslie Krugel (1942/43? – November 4, 2005) was the West Coast coordinator of the Jewish Defense League (JDL). This article is about the year. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The states shown striped may or may not be considered part of the informal western United States today. ... The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is an activist Jewish movement whose stated goal is protecting Jewish people and property from anti-Semitism. ...

At one time, Krugel was a dental assistant in the San Fernando Valley.

While the Jewish Defense League was founded by Meir Kahane in New York in 1968, West Coast activities were spearheaded by Irv Rubin and his followers, Earl and Barry Krugel. The FBI contends that Irv Rubin planned the 1985 bombing-murder of Orange County Arab-American leader, Alex Odeh. No one was ever charged in that case. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Krugel and Rubin were arrested in 2001 and charged with conspiring to bomb the office of Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA), an Arab-American of Lebanese decent, and the King Fahd mosque in Culver City, California. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Darrell E. Issa (pronounced Eye-suh) (born November 1, 1953) is an American politician and former CEO of a consumer electronics company. ... Arab Americans are Americans of Arab ancestry and constitute an ethnicity made up of several waves of immigrants from 22 Arab countries, stretching from Morocco in the west to Oman in the east. ... Yeni Camii (the New Mosque), one of the landmarks of Ä°stanbul A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ... Culver City sign, at the northeast corner of the Sepulveda Boulevard and Centinela Avenue intersection, near the 405 and the 90 freeway interchange. ...

Krugel pled guilty in February 2003 to one count of carrying an explosive device in connection with a conspiracy to impede or injure an office of the United States and one count of conspiracy to violate the civil rights of worshippers at the mosque.

In November 2003, Rubin died while in the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. Authorities say Rubin slashed his neck with a prison-issued razor blade and jumped 18 feet over a railing; some JDL supporters say Rubin was murdered rather than being a suicide.

In September 2005, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald S.W. Lew sentenced Krugel to 20 years in prison. Part of the plea agreement for his sentence demanded that he reveal the names of all JDL activists involved in the 1985 bombing.

On November 4, 2005, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix, Arizona, Krugel was murdered by another inmate, who used a concrete block to strike his head. Krugel had been at the prison for three days. November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Valley of the Sun Motto: Official website: http://www. ...

References

• MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
• "JDL activist linked to California bomb plot killed in prison", San Francisco Chronicle, November 5, 2005
• Jewish extremist killed in jail, BBC Online