'Watermelon bomb' transporter gets 18 years Etgar Lefkovits Jun. 17, 2002 A Palestinian sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Jerusalem District Court yesterday for transporting a bomb stuffed in a watermelon last year in a failed terror attack, was also behind a thwarted plot to bomb a restaurant in Jerusalem's Ein Karem neighborhood, according to court papers released yesterday. Balal Odeh, 24, of east Jerusalem, a graduate of Bethlehem University, received the watermelon bomb last July 27 from an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Using his Jerusalem identity papers to travel freely into...