Convicted
terrorist Rasmea Yousef Odeh has plead not guilty in her first court
appearance in Detroit on charges of immigration fraud. She is accused of failing to
tell U.S. immigration authorities about her role in a deadly bombing
in Israel. If Odeh is convicted, her U.S. citizenship could be
stripped, and she could serve up to 10 years in prison.
She
became a naturalized United States citizen in 2004 and is now charged
with covering up her conviction in an attack that killed two people at a
Jerusalem market in 1969. Two people were killed when Odeh and other
PFLP members bombed a crowded Jerusalem supermarket on Feb. 21, 1969. A
second bombing four days later at the British Consulate was
unsuccessful.
Odeh
now lives in the Chicago area, but the case is filed in Detroit federal
court because that's where the 66-year-old gained U.S. citizenship. She
falsely told immigration officials she'd lived in Jordan all her life,
prosecutors allege.
Odeh is the associate director at the Chicago based Arab American Action Network. She
was released on bond and declined further comment.
Odeh's supporters marched outside the courthouse with signs that said "Stop anti-Arab racism."
In Oakland, a local call for action by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), the Palestinian Youth
Movement(PYM), and the International Jewish anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) and endorsed by the Middle East Children's
Alliance, Bay Area Committee to Stop Political Repression, National Lawyer's Guild-San Francisco and the Freedom Archive attracted 6 participants.
Oakland rally in support of convicted terrorist RasmeaYousef Odeh attracts 6 participants |
1 comment:
There were more than 6- I'd say at least 10 showed up, circling, circling, circling and trying desperately for people to pay attention to them
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