Plot against Temple Emanuel in Pueblo thwarted

peace and quiet usually enjoyed by Pueblo’s tiny Temple Emanuel synagogue was shattered this week with news of the arrest of a Pueblo man — a self-described former Ku Klux Klan member and skinhead — accused of threatening to blow up the synagogue and poison its water supply. The arrest and threats that preceded it immediately focused unprecedented national media attention on the venerable Reform congregation of some 35 families in the southern Colorado city. The FBI announced on Nov. 1 that it had arrested Richard Holzer, 27, in a Pueblo motel after a weeks-long investigation that included an elaborate undercover operation in which agents, posing as fellow white supremacists, provided the suspect with two fake pipe bombs and 14 inert sticks of dynamite that […]