Arab Bomber Faces Fraud Charges In Detroit (VIDEO)

Detroit U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain scheduled motion hearings for Oct. 2 and 21 in the immigration fraud case against Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, Reuters reported.

Odeh is scheduled to appear in court before Judge Gershwin Drain in Detroit after another judge, Paul Borman, had been set to hear the case but he recused himself after learning his family had a financial stake in the bombed supermarket, according to Reuters.

Odeh, 66, was accused of immigration fraud and arrested at her home in October by federal agents, according to Reuters. A federal indictment alleges she failed to reveal her criminal history when she immigrated from Jordan in 1995 and again when she was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2004.

According to the federal indictment, Odeh and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were convicted by an Israeli military court for the supermarket bombing and for placing a bomb at the British consulate in Jerusalem, according to Reuters.

Israel freed Odeh from prison after 10 years in a prisoner swap with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Reuters reported. Odeh was sentenced to life in prison by Israeli authorities, but released after a decade as part of a prisoner exchange, the indictment says.

During her almost two decades in the United States, Odeh established a life in Chicago and served as associate director of the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago area community organization, until her arrest, according to Reuters. She faces 10 years in prison and would lose her U.S. citizenship if convicted.

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