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Citing ISIS threat, feds urge stiff sentence for Evergreen Park activist
http://chicago.suntimes.com ^ | 02/26/2015 | Kim Janssen

Posted on 02/26/2015 1:31:31 PM PST by redreno

A Palestinian immigrant convicted of hiding an Israeli terrorism conviction from U.S. authorities when she moved to the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s should be locked up for at least five years, federal prosecutors say.

Anything less would be a “slap on the wrist” for Evergreen Park activist Rasmieh Odeh, and could encourage terrorists fighting with ISIS to come to the U.S., they argue.

But lawyers for Odeh — who was convicted by an Israeli court of taking part in a Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two students in 1969 — say she was a freedom fighter, not a terrorist, and that she has done only good works since arriving in Chicago’s Arab-American community. They allege the government is trying to “curry favor with their American Zionist constituents and obfuscate 67 years of Israeli terrorism” by pushing for an unusually harsh sentence.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Israel; US: Illinois
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1 posted on 02/26/2015 1:31:31 PM PST by redreno
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To: redreno
...from U.S. authorities...

Better not tell Obama about this, or these guys will be FORMER U.S. authorities.

2 posted on 02/26/2015 1:57:04 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: redreno

Wow, she looks like she blew up an Ugly Bomb with her face.


3 posted on 02/26/2015 2:55:56 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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4 posted on 02/26/2015 4:00:19 PM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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