'Jewish terrorist' serving 20-year sentence killed in U.S. jail

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/642030.html

A Jewish Defense League activist imprisoned for his role in a plot to bomb a California mosque and the office of a Lebanese-American congressman was killed at a federal prison in Phoenix, Arizona, a Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman said overnight Saturday.

Earl Krugel, 62, was killed Friday evening in an assault at the Federal Correctional Institution, said Richard Murray, an FBI special agent in Phoenix.

The Jewish Defense League was founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane. Kahane advocated the forcible removal of Arabs from Israel, and was assassinated in 1990 in New York.

The FBI's Murray said federal authorities have opened a homicide investigation, but he declined to release further details.

Earl Krugel was Irv Rubin's 'first lieutenant'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irv_Rubin

In November 2002, while in prison in the Metropolitan detention Center on Los Angeles <4> awaiting trial, Rubin allegedly cut his throat with a small safety razor and tumbled <5> off an 18 to 20 foot balcony. The injuries from the fall he suffered resulted in his death at Los Angeles County Hospital several days later.<<6>> The circumstances surrounding his death are not clear and his followers suspect that he was murdered.<7> The Bureau of Prisons refused to release videotape, despite the fact that virtually all his visitors report that the entire facility is constantly monitored by video-camerasCitation needed. The Rubin family have, thus far, been unsuccessful in pursuing a wrongful death suit.