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FBI Urged to Reopen Probe Into 1985 Assassination of Arab-American Leader Alex Odeh (1 of 2)
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19:02Now PlayingThe FBI and Justice Department are being urged to renew its investigation into one of the most shocking political murders in recent U.S. history. Twentyeight years ago, on October 11, 1985, a prominent PalestinianAmerican leader named Alex Odeh was killed by a powerful pipe bomb planted at the Santa Ana, California, offices of the AmericanArab AntiDiscrimination Committee, where Odeh worked as the group's western regional director. The FBI quickly named the militant Jewish Defense League or JDL as a focus of its investigations. But decades later, no one has been questioned or indicted for Odeh's murder.
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"Despite 28 years of knocking on the doors of justice, we have not found it yet. Alex was a very peaceful man," says Albert Mokhiber, former president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "He was known as an activist, in not just the Arab-American movement and Palestinian issues, but civil rights in general." We also speak to attorney Abdeen Jabara who helped found the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and Rep. John Conyers of Michigan.
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