A Jewish man in New York was arrested on suspicion of calling in a hoax to a terrorism hotline. Rimon Alkatri was arrested after allegedly calling the hotline in May, identifying himself as Jose Rodriguez and describing a terror plot being hatched by Syrian Muslims working in the jewelry business, The New York Times reported. The men were Christians and Jews against whom Alkatri had a business grudge, police said.
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