U.S. Probes Odeh Bombing Death
A Los Angeles federal grand jury is investigating the 1985 bombing death of Arab-American leader Alex Odeh, who was killed in his Santa Ana office, according to sources close to the case.
Witnesses, including his former office assistant, have received subpoenas from a federal grand jury requesting their testimony.
Palestine-born Odeh served as the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee’s West Coast regional director. He was killed 12 hours after he appeared on a late-night television news program in which he condemned terrorism and defended PLO leader Yasser Arafat as “a man of peace.”
Asst. U.S. Atty. J. Stephen Czuleger on Monday would neither confirm nor deny the existence of a grand jury investigation. But he noted that “the FBI has had it under investigation. . . . At one point, the FBI attributed the Odeh bombing to the Jewish Defense League.
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