from the kinda wayback machine:JDL chairman Irv Rubin attempts suicide
Monday, November 4, 2002 Posted: 10:40 PM EST (0340 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Controversial Jewish Defense League Chairman Irv Rubin, in jail on charges of plotting to bomb Muslim targets, slit his own throat and leapt over a railing in a suicide bid Monday and was barely clinging to life, his attorney said.
Rubin, who was being held on federal charges of conspiring to blow up a Los Angeles-area mosque and an Arab-American congressman's office, was rushed to a local hospital, where doctors tried to save his life, attorney Mark Werksman said.
Werksman said he was told by federal prosecutors that Rubin had died in surgery but that other officials had said that the JDL leader was still alive and in surgery..
A spokeswoman for the FBI said Rubin's condition was "grave" and his prognosis "very poor" and said she could not confirm whether he was still alive.
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Controversial Jewish Defense League Chairman Irv Rubin, in jail on charges of plotting to bomb Muslim targets, slit his own throat and leapt over a railing in a suicide bid Monday and was barely clinging to life, his attorney said.
Rubin, who was being held on federal charges of conspiring to blow up a Los Angeles-area mosque and an Arab-American congressman's office, was rushed to a local hospital, where doctors tried to save his life, attorney Mark Werksman said.
Werksman said he was told by federal prosecutors that Rubin had died in surgery but that other officials had said that the JDL leader was still alive and in surgery..
A spokeswoman for the FBI said Rubin's condition was "grave" and his prognosis "very poor" and said she could not confirm whether he was still alive.
