19 years after immigrating to the US, authorities catch up with 'Palestinian' terrorist
The indictment was handed down in Detroit, where at least part of Odeh's naturalization process took place. Odeh moved to the Chicago area shortly after gaining citizenship in Detroit in 2004, said Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Prosecutors said she was arrested Tuesday morning at her home in Evergreen Park, southwest of Chicago.
If convicted of immigration fraud, Odeh could face up to 10 years in a U.S. prison. She could also be stripped of her U.S. citizenship.
Her attorney, James Fennerty, declined to comment Tuesday about the allegations, but said Odeh worked as an associate director at the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago-area nonprofit group that advocates for new immigrants and tries to combat anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice.
According to the indictment, Odeh was arrested over a 1969 attack in which bombs were planted at a crowded Jerusalem supermarket and at the British consulate. One of two bombs placed at the supermarket exploded, killing two people and wounding several others. Israeli authorities said the attacks were planned by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
It must be 'Islamophobia, right?
An Israeli military court sentenced Odeh to life in prison in 1970, but she was released 10 years later in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP, when Israel released 76 prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon, according to Odeh's indictment.
I wonder how many more of these there are in the US....
Labels: Chicago, illegal immigration, Palestinian terrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:54 PM
2 Comments:
I can hardly wait for Salon, Huffington Post, Politico, Raw Story, TPM and of course John "Juan" Cole and Glenn Greenwald to rush to her defense.
If she was a member of the PFLP, she was a Marxist, not a Muslim. Ironic, is it not?
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