Terrorism Los Angeles County

Inside the King Fahd Mosque, as sunbeams danced off marble walls and deep chants in Arabic filled the hall, dozens of Muslims bowed, prostrated themselves and offered silent prayers. A dominant emotion here Thursday was gratitude--to be alive, to be protected by God, to still have a place to pray after FBI agents this week foiled an alleged plot by the Jewish Defense League to bomb the Culver City mosque.

Inside the King Fahd Mosque, as sunbeams danced off marble walls and deep chants in Arabic filled the hall, dozens of Muslims bowed, prostrated themselves and offered silent prayers. A dominant emotion here Thursday was gratitude--to be alive, to be protected by God, to still have a place to pray after FBI agents this week foiled an alleged plot by the Jewish Defense League to bomb the Culver City mosque.

A Glendale man was injured Saturday when a small bomb exploded in his car as he drove along the street in front of his residence, authorities said. The 1974 Dodge was parked in front of Vahe Artinian's home in the 100 block of S. Everett Street, police said. At 10:20 a.m., Artinian, 29, got into the car and drove about half a block when the bomb exploded. Artinian suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs, arms and hands, Glendale Police Sgt. Karl Ward said.

In a tough initiative to curb the mayhem of Los Angeles' most notorious gang--18th Street--a Superior Court judge on Friday barred members of one the group's cliques from associating with each other in a terrorized southwest Los Angeles neighborhood. Judge Alan G. Buckner approved a preliminary injunction that carries unprecedented provisions in Los Angeles' long and frustrating war on gangs.

Why, after a period of relative tranquility in regards to the hostage situation and the emotional upheaval aimed at the U.S., did Israel decide to send its commandos to kidnap Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid and other members of his family and to kill two of his neighbors?

An FBI investigation into a group of Arab immigrants in the Los Angeles area, aimed at proving that they engaged in terrorist activities, failed to produce enough evidence for a criminal case, so deportation was recommended, government officials said Thursday.

Former Sen. James G. Abourezk (D-S.D.) charged Saturday that the arrests last week of eight Arab immigrants and a Kenyan in the Los Angeles area were orchestrated by the Reagan Administration in frustration over what he described as the White House's failed policies in the Middle East.

An immigration judge ruled Tuesday that she will hold a hearing on whether immigrants accused of belonging to a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization were unconstitutionally the targets of deportation efforts because of their political views and ethnic background. Overruling government objections that she does not have jurisdiction to decide whether due process, or fairness, rights of the aliens had been violated, U.S. Immigration Judge Ingrid K.

A civilian security officer at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station is suing the federal government for more than $6 million as a result of a 1986 incident in which he says he was kidnaped and beaten during an exercise designed to test the base's response to a terrorist attack. Ronald Sheridan, 51, of Los Angeles and his wife, Margaret, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Lawyers for eight Los Angeles-area aliens accused of subversion under the McCarran-Walter Act will urge the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to expedite a ruling on the McCarthy-Era law. Lead attorney Dan Stormer of Los Angeles said Friday that papers will be filed within 10 days in San Francisco "to remind the court that we're out there and we're concerned and that we don't want the case to sit on the back burner. We're asking the court to strike down McCarran-Walter."

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday delayed a hearing on a proposed injunction to curb the activities of one branch of the sprawling 18th Street gang, accused of terrorizing and intimidating residents in a neighborhood east of Culver City. Seventeen of the 18 alleged gang members named in a Los Angeles city attorney's office complaint appeared in court under heightened security that included a metal detector.

Four members of a San Gabriel Valley family were held hostage for nearly six hours Wednesday by two armed men who ransacked the family home, ordered the father and son trussed up with their own neckties and twice forced family members to a bank to withdraw cash. The morning of terror ended with a car chase and crash in Monterey Park that injured one suspect.

The Los Feliz woman was driving along the Golden State Freeway when her car broke down near Elmwood Avenue in Burbank. When she got out to investigate, she was shot several times. About an hour later, a motorist who thought the freeway was accessible from Elmwood was turning around in the cul-de-sac when several gunmen opened fire. They missed the driver, but stray bullets wounded a 54-year-old woman who was sitting in her living room in a nearby apartment. Both victims survived the Feb.

An engineer from Orange County is expected to plead guilty today to charges that he launched a string of bomb attacks on Internal Revenue Service offices, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday. Dean Harvey Hicks of Costa Mesa has agreed to plead guilty to three counts of using a destructive device against a federal facility and one count of trying to impede the IRS, Assistant U.S. Atty. George Newhouse said.

An Orange County engineer who harbors a simmering grudge against the Internal Revenue Service pleaded not guilty Monday to launching five bomb attacks on IRS offices throughout Southern California. Dean Harvey Hicks, described by his Costa Mesa neighbors as a solitary man, faces up to 110 years in prison and $4.5 million in fines if convicted on all 18 federal charges against him, Assistant U.S. Atty. George B. Newhouse said.

A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted a Costa Mesa man on charges relating to six separate bomb attacks on Internal Revenue Service facilities in three counties. Dean Harvey Hicks, 45, who was arrested on July 11 at his Costa Mesa home, was charged in an 18-count indictment of using a destructive device against federal facilities, possession of unregistered bombs, and attempting to impair and impede the administration of IRS laws.

Fifteen days after the arrest of a Kenyan woman on charges of overstaying her visa, a government prosecutor surprised defense attorneys Tuesday by accusing her of subversive activities linked to a Marxist Palestinian group. The accusation appeared almost identical to those which have been leveled against six Los Angeles area Arab immigrants, including her husband, arrested at the same time on Jan. 26. The government is seeking to deport all seven. "I am surprised," U.S.

U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson on Monday denounced as "bordering on the outrageous" Justice Department attempts to use a section of the McCarran-Walter Act to deport eight immigrants accused of being members of a radical faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Wilson described the McCarthy Era law as "over-broad" and "chilling."

An electrical engineer from Costa Mesa who sought revenge against the Internal Revenue Service was arrested Thursday and charged with twice bombing an IRS office in Los Angeles, authorities said. After his arrest, Dean Harvey Hicks, 45, confessed to those and six other anti-IRS bombings in Los Angeles, Orange and Fresno counties, Assistant U.S. Atty. George Newhouse said during Hicks' arraignment Thursday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Reichmann in Los Angeles.

An electrical engineer from Orange County, who sought revenge against the Internal Revenue Service, was arrested Thursday and charged with twice bombing an IRS office in Los Angeles, authorities said. After his arrest, Dean Harvey Hicks, 45, of Costa Mesa, confessed to those and six other anti-IRS bombings in Los Angeles, Orange and Fresno counties, Assistant U.S. Atty. George Newhouse said during the arraignment Thursday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Reichmann in Los Angeles.