Trial set for immigrant convicted in Israel deaths
DETROIT - A federal judge refused Thursday to dismiss charges against an Arab activist accused of failing to tell US immigration officials in Michigan that she'd been convicted in a fatal terrorist bombing in Jerusalem.
Rasmieh Odeh, associate director at the Arab American Action Network, is being targeted for political reasons, her lawyers said in a motion seeking to have the case thrown out. They said the case grew out of "an illegal investigation of the First Amendment activities" of the Chicago group and amounted to selective prosecution.
