A militant Jewish group plans to start patrolling Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn armed with shotguns and other weapons. The little-known Jewish Defense Group is taking the step after a suspected terrorist jailed in Iraq said in a TV interview aired last week that the terrorists who carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing originally wanted to target Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
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