FBI Release Report: Jihad Prevented in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, California — According to an FBI affidavit unsealed recently, local police agencies uncovered an alleged plot while investigating a string of gas station robberies, that three men charged in a terror investigation were allegedly conducted surveillance of military sites, synagogues, the Israeli Consulate and El Al airline facilities in the Los Angeles area as well as Internet research on Jewish holidays, prosecutors said according to court documents.