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Synagogue arson suspects
kept "hit list" of
Sacramento-area Jews.

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TOM TUGEND
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Los Angeles
wo men linked to last
month's arson attacks on
three Sacramento synagogues
kept a possible "hit list" of
32 Sacramento-area residents, most of
them Jewish, an investigator said.
The list was found during a search
of the home of two brothers arrested as
suspects in the killing of a gay couple.
The list includes officials of the
Sacramento synagogues and congrega-
tion members who were quoted in the
media after the attacks.
In addition to the murders and
arsons, the men may have connections
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to the white supremacist World Church
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of the Creator, a member of which went
on a shooting rampage in the Midwest
during the July 4 weekend, killing two
people and wounding six others.
The brothers, Benjamin Matthew
Williams, 31, and James Tyler
Williams, 29, were apprehended last
week in connection with the shooting
deaths of Gary Matson, 50, and
Winfield Mowder, 40.
The victims, who were longtime
companions, and the Williams broth-
ers lived near Redding, a town in rural
northern California.
The names of several prominent
Redding Jews were included on the "hit
list" and law enforcement officials have
advised the town's only synagogue,
\ , Temple Beth Israel, to beef up security.
,
During the search of the brothers'
home, investigators found a torn piece
of paper that matched the tear on a
piece discovered after the Sacramento
arson at Congregation B'nai Israel, one
of the three targeted synagogues. Also
discovered at the home were a large
cache of semi-automatic weapons and
\ hate literature, including pamphlets
/ J from the World Church of the Creator.
The Illinois-based racist group,
which has several chapters in northern
California, has been under close scruti-
ny since the arson attacks, during
which the perpetrators left fliers blam-
ing the "International Jew World

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