Alex Odeh

Alex Odeh was an Arab-American who was killed in a October 11, 1985 bombing at his office at 1905 East 17th St. Santa Ana, California. Odeh was regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).

Born into a Palestinian Christian family in Jifna, the West Bank, Odeh immigrated to the US in 1972. Odeh's murder was never solved by the FBI, and there is still a $1 million reward for the capture of his killer. There have been many claims that the Jewish Defense League was involved in his murder, however none of those claims have ever led to charges being filed against anyone. The United States Department of Justice reported, in 1985, that the FBI suspected several JDL members of being involved in a series of other violent incidents in that year. [ Kushner, Harvey W. (2002). "Encyclopedia of Terrorism", pp. 192-193. Sage Publications Inc. ISBN 0-7619-2408-6 ]

The JDL has denied any involvement in Odeh's killing and states its belief he was murdered by "rival terrorist groups", such as Hamas. [http://www.jdl.org/information/faq.shtml] . However, Hamas was not formed as a Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood until 1987, nor did ADC have links to any armed faction.Dubious|date=March 2008

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* [http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seekinfo/odeh.htm FBI information poster]