Armed Citizens to Patrol Jewish Neighborhoods
Citizens armed with shotguns will patrol heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods because of comments a terrorist made about targeting them, a rabbi said.
The patrols, to begin Sunday, are in response to comments Abdul Rahman Yasin made during an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on June 2, said Rabbi Yakove Lloyd, founder and president of the right-wing Jewish Defense Group.
Yasin, who is sought by the FBI in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, said in an interview from a compound in Iraq that he and his accomplices originally targeted heavily Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
They later decided to attack the twin towers because they believed most of their occupants were Jewish, Yasin said. Six people were killed.
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