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ANALYSIS / New York bomb plot highlights threat from independent attackers
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Jewish World, New York, Bomb 

The arrest of four men accused of plotting to attack two Bronx synagogues underscores the threat to Jewish targets by individuals or small groups, JTA quoted several experts as saying.

From the shooting at a Los Angeles Jewish community center 10 years ago through the attack on the Seattle Jewish federation building in 2006, to the individual targeting Jews at Wesleyan University in Connecticut earlier this month, an individual or small group not formally connected with Al-Qaida or any major international terrorist group was at the center of the threat.

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