The chief suspect for the murder of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine has withdrawn a formal complaint he made to Fiosrú, the Office of the Police Ombudsman about how he was treated by gardai.
One fall morning in 1985 the prominent Palestinian activist arrived to work at the Santa Ana office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. When he opened the civil rights group's door, a rigged pipe bomb went off, mortally wounding him. "How can I forget that horrible day?" said Michel Shehadeh, whoreplaced Odeh as the West Coast regional director of the organization, which formed in 1980 to combat anti-Arab stereotypes in U.S. media.