Nervous in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Time reports on the nervous mood that took hold after Thursday's shooting at a local synagogue:
When the sound of gunfire shattered the peace of morning prayer Thursday at a North Hollywood synagogue, the shock waves traveled fast and far.
Was it a hate crime? An act of terrorism? An isolated incident or part of a wider plot? These were all real fears in a city where, 10 years ago, a white supremacist gunman terrorized a Jewish preschool and murdered a postal carrier, and where police have been on alert for acts of terror since Sept. 11, 2001.
By day's end, authorities had come to believe that the shooting, in which two men were wounded, was probably a far more mundane crime. ...For a few hours, though, the shooting in the synagogue garage set nerves on edge throughout the city. Word traveled rapidly from temple-goers to police to city leaders to members of a joint regional terrorism task force.
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steve ariza
10/30/09 09:55 AM
The attack was a direct outcome of the nazi incitement against the Jewish people by neo nazi michael weiner aka michael savage.
If it turns out that savage did incite the gunman I pray that both savage and his family get done to them exactly as they caused to be done to jewish people!
ALL Jews should demand that supermarkets stop selling savages rock star energy drink concoction and No Jew should buy this in my opinion dangerous drink.