Evidence emerges in slaying of Arab American leader

[Tom Joad]

Federal and local authorities have uncovered new evidence in the bombing that killed a prominent Arab American civil rights leader in Santa Ana 22 years ago today, in one of the first acts of modern-day terrorism in the United States.

The undisclosed evidence, including statements from a now-deceased informant, is not expected to immediately solve the slaying of Alex Odeh, but law enforcement officials familiar with the long-running investigation said the information provided new details about how the attack on the onetime Western regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was planned and carried out.


The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that the evidence developed in recent months by the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department in a Joint Terrorism Task Force could help investigators eventually bring charges in the case.

"It just adds more pieces to a puzzle that we have been trying to put together for years," one source said....

One source close to the probe told The Times in 2005 that three of the people were former JDL members Keith Fuchs, Andy Green and Robert Manning, all of whom had been publicly identified as possible suspects in the case as far back as 1988.

Fuchs and Green are believed to be living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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In honor of Alex Odeh, a brave spokeperson for peace and justice.
May your killers be brought to justice.
May the JDL, a group founded on hate and violence -- fall into the dustbin of history.

[Tom Joad]

1. as noted in the article, this was one of the first acts of terrorism carried

out in the US in regard to the MidEast conflict.
I am surprised not more interest is shown in this article.