
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 31, 1993                   TAG: 9307310155
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
DATELINE: SAN JOSE, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Medium

FBI SAYS RAPPERS WERE RACIST-TERROR TARGETS

Two weeks after the FBI said it broke up a Los Angeles white supremacist group's plans to launch a race war, two men held in San Jose are accused of plotting a tour of racist terror throughout the Pacific Northwest and into California.

According to a federal complaint unsealed Thursday in San Jose, suspect Jeremiah Gordon Knesal, an alleged member of a white supremacist group called The American Front, confessed the planned mayhem to FBI Special Agent John Zent Jr.

"Specific targets for `political bombings' were Jewish synagogues, Jewish-related agencies, military facilities [particularly those where submarines are based], and unidentified radio and television stations," Zent wrote in the complaint. "Two rap-rock stars, Ice-T and Ice Cube, had been specifically selected as murder targets with additional indiscriminate racially directed sniper actions to be taken along their general route through the United States."

In a news conference Thursday in San Francisco, the FBI said that Knesal and Wayne Paul Wooten, two men from Washington state arrested earlier this week in Salinas on shoplifting charges, are suspects in the recent attack of a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting hall in Tacoma, Wash.

John J. Covert, acting special agent in charge of the FBI's San Francisco office, said his agency is investigating possible links between Knesal's band and a flurry of recent hate crimes, including the firebombings of a synagogue and an NAACP office earlier this week in Sacramento and the alleged plot revealed earlier this month to assassinate Rodney King and blow up a black church in Los Angeles in an attempt to start a race war.

by CNB