Rasmea Odeh
| Rasmea Yousef Odeh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947/1948 Lifta, British Mandate Palestine |
| Residence | Evergreen Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Other names | Rasmea Yousef, Rasmieh Steve, Rasmieh Joseph Steve, Rasmieh Odeh, Rasmieh Yousef Odeh |
| Occupation | Associate director of the Arab American Action Network, Chicago, Illinois |
| Criminal charge | a) Involvement in two terrorist bombings in Jerusalem, including a fatal one; b) Immigration fraud |
| Conviction(s) | a) Yes (life sentence) (b) 18 months in federal prison, stripping of US citizenship, and deportation from US to Jordan, once she has served her sentence, conviction was vacated by the appellate court. |
| Killings | |
| Country | Israel |
| Target(s) | Jerusalem supermarket and British Consulate |
| Killed | 2 |
| Injured | 9 |
| Weapons | Bombs |
| Imprisoned at | Sentenced to life imprisonment, served ten years in Israel In custody November 10 – December 11, 2014, in Michigan, but freed on bond pending sentencing; sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on March 12, 2015. |
Rasmea Yousef Odeh (born 1947/1948; also known as Rasmea Yousef, Rasmieh Steve, and Rasmieh Joseph Steve) is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and former United States citizen convicted by Israeli courts for her role in the murder of Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe in the 1969 Jerusalem Supermarket bombing. She served as associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, Illinois.
Odeh was convicted in 1970 of involvement in in the 1969 PFLP bombings in Jerusalem in which two people were killed, and in 2014 by a US federal jury of immigration fraud. She was sentenced to life in prison in Israel for her involvement in two terrorist bombings in Jerusalem in 1969, one of which killed two people, and involvement in an illegal organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She spent 10 years in prison before she was released in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP in 1980.
Odeh was convicted of immigration fraud on November 10, 2014, by a jury in federal court in Detroit, Michigan, for concealing her arrest, conviction, and imprisonment for the 1969 bombings. On December 11, 2014, she was released on bond pending sentencing. Odeh's counsel maintains she did not receive a "full and fair trial" because the judge ruled as irrelevant her testimony that her confession to the crimes had been extracted by torture while she was in the custody of Israeli police in 1969. On February 13, 2015, federal Judge Gershwin A. Drain denied Odeh's request that he either overturn the federal jury’s conviction of her or grant her a new trial. He ruled that her argument lacked legal merit, as evidence showed that Odeh illegally obtained U.S. citizenship, the jurors "clearly did not believe [her] explanation", and that "the evidence was more than sufficient to support the jury’s verdict."
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