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July 30, 1993 - Image 66

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1993-07-30

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Los Angeles (JTA) — The
FBI and local authorities are
continuing an intensive in-
vestigation of militant hate
groups in Southern Califor-
nia, following the arrest last
week of eight white
supremacists who were
allegedly plotting deadly at-
tacks on black and Jewish
targets.
At least one of the suspects
told an FBI undercover
agent of plans to blow up a
leading African American
church and machine- gun its
congregation, according to
the criminal complaint.
Other possible targets in-
cluded Rodney King, the vic-
tim of the famed videotaped
beating by white police offi-
cers; the Rev. Al Sharpton, a
radical black activist from
New York; rap music star
Eazy-E; and unspecified
"Jewish leaders."
The suspects hoped that
the attacks would bring
them national attention and
trigger a race war, the FBI
said following the July 15
arrest.
If any of the attacks had
succeeded, the reaction
would "have made last
year's (Los Angeles) riots
look like a Sunday School
picnic," one black leader
said.
The U.S. Attorney's Office
would not name any of the
alleged Jewish targets.
Telephone calls to major
Jewish organizations and
individuals in Los Angeles
and Orange counties did not
produce the name of any
person who had been alerted
of possible danger by law en-
forcement agencies.
The arrests of the eight
suspects in four Southern
California counties yielded
an arsenal of weapons, a por-
trait of Adolf Hitler and
swastika banners. Most of
the suspects are being
charged with federal
weapons offenses.
Authorities identified the
suspects — four men, two
women and two juveniles —
as members of three white
supremacist groups, each .
apparently with its own
agenda.
The most militant suspect,
Christopher David Fisher,
20, and the two juveniles
were said to belong to a
shadowy group calling itself
the Fourth Reich Skinheads,
which allegedly planned the
assassinations and attack on
the black church.

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Al Sharpton:
On hit list.

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The other, better knowill
hate groups were identifig-j-
as the White AryAF,-
Resistance, or WAR, and the
Church of the Creator.
Initial news storie.sre-
ported that Mr. Fisher
been arrested while prepar-
ing a mail bomb to be sent
-
an Orange County ra.1.-='7
The rabbi was not identried,
but circumstances pointhd to
Rabbi Michael Mayersoh-41,A7
Temple Beth David in
Westminster. The temple
had been vandalized and
smeared with graffiti
January.

Mr. Fisher allegedly
an undercover agent that he
had at one time lobbed, a
Molotov cocktail at the tem-
ple, but that the incendiary
device did not ignite because
it was raining.
Rabbi Mayersohn said in a
phone interview that while
checking the graffiti
damage, inspectors had
found a broken window in a
remote part of the temple.
No sign of the Molotov
cocktail was found, and it
was uncertain whether the
window had been smashed
at the same time as the van-
dalism attack.
Beth David is deGU1y visi-
ble from the busy San Diego
Freeway, but Rabbi Mayer-
sohn said he could think of
no other reason why the
temple had apparently
drawn the attention of hate
groups.
In any case, he said, "I am
not going to change who I
am and how I present myself
because of the bigotry and
hatred of others. That is

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