JDL Activist Killed in Prison

(Phoenix, Arizona) A former dental assistant and West Coast coordinator for the Jewish Defense League was killed in prison when attacked from behind with a cement block.

From azcentral.com:

A Jewish Defense League activist, convicted in California plots to bomb a mosque and a congressman's office, has been killed at a prison in north Phoenix, authorities said Saturday.

Earl Leslie Krugel, 63, was fatally assaulted about 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Federal Correctional Institute, near Interstate 17 and Pioneer Road, said Richard Murray, an FBI special agent in Phoenix.

Murray declined to disclose assault details, but said a joint investigation has been launched by the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Krugel pleaded guilty in the plots to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City and a San Diego-area office of Rep. Darrell Issa, a Lebanese-American, and was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.