Judge Orders Palestinian Stripped of US Citizenship Over Bombing

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 70, lost her United States citizenship, and will be deported from the United States for having obtained her United States citizenship unlawfully, according to official statement.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A US federal judge ordered Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, a naturalized American citizen, to be stripped of her citizenship and deported from the United States for failing to disclose her role in two 1969 bombings when she obtained US citizenship, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a press release.

"Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 70, lost her United States citizenship, and will be deported from the United States for having obtained her United States citizenship unlawfully," the release stated on Friday.

In 1970, Odeh was convicted in Israel in connection with two bombings in Jerusalem, and of being a member of the US-designated terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Odeh was released from prison in 1979, immigrated to the United States in 1994 and has lived in the city of Chicago. She admitted failing to disclose her conviction on the visa and citizenship applications.

"She unlawfully failed to disclose her arrest and convictions regarding the bombings in both her application for her visa and her separate application for United States citizenship," the release said.

Odeh will be deported to Jordan, where she is a citizen, and barred from reentering the United States for the rest of her life.