PMW supplies US prosecutors with video for trial of Palestinian terrorist

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In ongoing US court case, terrorist Rasmeh Odeh, on trial for immigration fraud, claimed that she was innocent of bombing that killed 2 Israelis.

Palestinian Media Watch has supplied US prosecutors with a video of Palestinian terrorist Aisha Odeh admitting on Palestinian television that she placed a bomb in a Jerusalem Shufersal supermarket in 1982, which killed two Israelis. She also stated that her accomplice was Rasmieh Odeh. Both terrorists served 10 years of their life sentences in Israeli prisons, until they were released in a prisoner exchange in 1979.

Rasmieh Odeh is going on trial in the United States in January a second time for immigration fraud. She claimed among other things that she did not commit the bombing, and that she admitted to it in the Israeli courts only following weeks of torture.

As the Jerusalem Post reported today:

"Most significantly, the decision means that Rasmea Yousef Odeh will get to argue that her confession and conviction in Israel came as the result of torture by Israeli security forces - potentially putting the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) itself "on trial" in a US court... Odeh's supporters claim that her original trial in Israel was marked with 'bias and inconsistencies,' and that Odeh confessed her involvement in terrorism only after she was tortured by security authorities."

However, the video PMW supplied last week to prosecutors shows the terrorist Aisha Odeh admitting to the bombing on PA TV, and saying her accomplice was Rasmieh Odeh.

The following is the transcript of the interview with Aisha Odeh in which she admits to the bombing and says her accomplice was Rasmieh Odeh:

Aisha Odeh: "Immediately after the 1967 war (i.e., the Six Day War) we changed [the name] from the Arab Nationalist Movement to the Popular Front for the liberation of Palestine. We were organized. We engaged in resistance to the occupation in all its forms... I turned to involvement in armed activity. We carried out an operation (i.e., terrorist attack) in western Jerusalem on Feb. 22, (sic., 21,) 1969."

Official PA TV host: "When you carried out the operation and afterwards, how were you arrested?" Aisha Odeh: "Of course Israel arrests many people in such situations... They gathered information and found evidence that led to the people who carried out the operation... A year later I was tried, I and the members of the cell - Rasmieh Odeh and Yaqub Odeh."

Official PA TV host: "Are you all from the same family?"

Aisha Odeh: "No, Rasmieh Al-Ubeid. Odeh and Yaqub Odeh are from Lifta. I am from Deir Jarir. In addition there were Samia and Mahmoud Al-Tawil. The five of us were tried together, even though I had no connection to any of them aside from Rasmieh. Yaqub Odeh was sentenced to 3 life sentences, Rasmieh Odeh was sentenced to 3 life sentences, and I was sentenced to 2 life sentences... One life sentence for carrying out an operation, one life sentence for not reporting the operation, and ten years for my membership in the [PFLP] organization..."

Official PA TV host: "Israelis died [in the bombing]."

Aisha Odeh: "We placed two bombs. One bomb exploded and one bomb was discovered a few moments before it exploded. Two were killed and 10 (sic., 20) were wounded."