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Benicio saw this one comingThings have been a little quiet stateside for Scientology watchers (where's that next part of the Leiby saga, Marty?), but michael kors outlet store over in Israel, all hell has broken loose. if Scientology considers you an enemy: you get surveilled, your trash is sifted for clues about you, and "eyes only" documents record your every move.

Over the last few days, Israeli news organizations like Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post have been laying out the bizarre details involving a man named Gur Finkelstein, who has been working as an attorney for Scientology in Tel Aviv.

Scientology's lawyer hiring thugs to burn down Scientology's own Tel Aviv center? Say what?

Well, apparently, Scientology expanded the center, but ran into problems with Shoteh Hovel, who planned then to demolish either the expansion or the center itself (that part isn't clear from what we read). What is clear is that Finkelstein didn't appreciate Hovel's meddling. From yesterday's Jerusalem Post:

Finkelstein allegedly had a financial interest in preventing the building from being demolished, and was behind the May 9 attempt to detonate a car bomb under Hovel's Green Monday UGGs Sale car in Bat Yam. Hovel escaped from the incident unharmed, but the vehicle was damaged. In a subsequent assassination attempt, three men dressed as police officers stopped Hovel in his car and tried to attack him with an electric shocker. That attack failed, too, and the attackers fled. Hovel was lightly wounded. Finkelstein eventually concluded that it would be most profitable for him to arrange for the building to be rebuilt elsewhere, police suspect, as he received a uggs outlet online commission from contractors behind the construction. He therefore repeatedly ordered the Jaffa suspects to damage UGG Boots Cheap the building, police allege. In one attempt, a truck carrying 300 liters of fuel and a gas canister was allegedly used in a failed bid UGGs Cheap to bomb the building. In a second attempt, a suspect allegedly entered the building, Clearance UGG boots poured gasoline inside, and set fire to the place. That arson attempt failed. The suspects had allegedly planned for that attack to be blamed on Jewish religious organizations that are opposed to the presence of Scientology in Israel. if it just had the balls of this Finkelstein dude!

I mean, he runs into some pushback from , so he hires some thugs to blow the guy up, electroshock him, bomb the cheap uggs building, Wholesale NFL Jerseys From China set fire to it, and then make it all look like Cheap NFL Jerseys From China some OTHER wacky rightwing religious group was behind it all!

Somebody get a treatment on this to Harvey Weinstein RIGHT NOW.

Naturally, Scientology has fallen back on its favorite OperationSnowWhiteera strategy, saying that Finkelstein might have worked for them but wasn't a Scientologist and was operating on his own, etc. These lone wolves are such a problem for Scientology, it seems.

Tony Ortega is the editorinchief of The Village Voice. Since 1995, he's been writing about Scientology at several publications. Among his other stories about L. Ron Hubbard's organization: