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October 9 • 2014
arbara McQuade, U.S. Attorney
for the Eastern District of
Michigan, refused Oct. 2 to
dismiss charges against Rasmieh Odeh,
associate director of the Arab American
Action Network (AAAN) in Chicago,
who is accused of failing to tell U.S.
immigration officials in Michigan
she'd been convicted in a fatal terrorist
bombing in Jerusalem, according to an
Associated Press story.
Odelis lawyers said in a motion seek-
ing to dismiss the case out that she is
being targeted for political reasons and
that the case stems from "an illegal
investigation of the First Amendment
activities" of AAAN and amounted to
selective prosecution.
McQuade said in an Aug. 28 filing
that Odeh's lawyers failed to meet the
"high burden" of proof for a selective
prosecution charge, the AP story said.
U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain
rejected the defense claim Oct. 2. He set
Odeh's trial for Nov. 4 in Detroit.
At the time the case was in court, the
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee in Washington said it asked
Attorney General Eric Holder to stop the
prosecution because it "plays into the
belief and perception that the ... govern-
ment is intentionally targeting and pros-
ecuting Arab American activists:'
A letter to Holder from Samer E.
Khalaf, lawyer for the Washington
group, said, "Odeh is an exemplary
citizen and well-respected leader in the
Chicago Arab-American community:'
An Israeli military court convicted
Odeh of bombing a Jerusalem super-
market and trying to bomb the British
Consulate in 1969, the AP story said.
Two people were killed in the market
bombing. Odeh was freed by Israel after
a decade in a prisoner exchange with
the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine.
U.S. authorities accuse Odeh of fail-
ing to mention her conviction and
prison time on immigration papers
when she came to the U.S. from Jordan
in 1995, the AP story said, and before
she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in
2004.
The judge said he would hear argu-
ments later on whether Israeli court files
should be admitted as evidence and
whether to grant Odeh's request that
potential jurors answer written ques-
tions about their attitudes toward Arabs,
Palestinians, the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict, Muslims, U.S. foreign policy and
immigrants, the AP story said. n