Islamic prison gangs probed for alleged plots against Jewish sites

[DemsUnite]

More than 200 federal and local counterterrorism agents are investigating links between the activities of Islamic gangs in California prisons and possible planned attacks on local Israeli and Jewish targets.

The lengthy and highly secretive investigation has led to the arrest of a Pakistani national and two Black Muslim converts.

The case started mundanely in mid-July when police arrested Levar Haney Washington, 25, and Gregory Vernon Patterson, 21, as suspects in a string of gas station robberies.

A search of Washington's apartment turned up what police described as "jihadist" literature, bulletproof vests and an address list of some two dozen Los Angeles sites.

Two separate entries referred to the "Consulate of Zion," which investigators took to mean the Israeli Consulate, and the El Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles International Airport, the site where an Egyptian immigrant killed two Israeli Americans in 2002.

Also listed were two synagogues and a number of California National Guard recruiting stations.

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