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Days of remembrance and tribute are fine and commendable except when they come in place of action and become camouflage. Terrorism isn't a disease but a challenge to governments. My wife and I ask you, @StateDeptSpox @NedPrice, to engage with us. Enough with the mantras.
Since no one at your level in seniority in today's @StateDepartment or those of the Trump and Obama administrations has ever acknowledged our existence, Mr @StateDeptSpox, I want to take this opportunity to introduce you to our child's killer, a Jordanian celebrity.
And since your tweet states your position on the pursuit of justice, Frimet and I assure you we're as passionate about this as you. It's why I met with senior officials in Washington in March 2012. And why we have devoted ourselves since then to seeing Tamimi in a US court. 
Jordan's @KingAbdullahII met with @POTUS on Monday, with @SecBlinken on Tuesday. Their spokespeople @JRPsaki and @NedPrice were asked by @AssociatedPress reporters whether the #TamimiExtradition issue was mentioned. Neither one was able to answer this most basic of questions...
Jordan began shirking its treaty responsibility to the US in March 2017. It continues to shelter the world's most wanted fugitive female, the #Sbarro bomber, who remains free and famous despite Jordan's responsibility to hand her over for trial in DC as the treaty requires...
We're the parents of one of the Jordanian fugitive bomber's many victims. Our child, a US national, was murdered at the age of 15. And America's senior leadership isn't sure whether it raised the matter of the @FBIMostWanted terrorist's extradition with #Jordan's ruler.
Many think that as parents of one of the many victims, we urge fury because of how much the #Sbarro atrocity devastated us. It did. But we have warned for years that the dead Jewish children made #AhlamTamimi a Jordanian heroine and the massacre an inspiration to more savagery.
Since we pay close attention to the Arabic media in general, and Jordan's in particular, we see (and relatively few Westerners do) how much support there is for #AhlamTamimi's "resistance" action and the utter absence of Jordanian criticism of what the kingdom has made of her.
The absence of Western media focus on how the orchestrator of a massacre targeting Jewish children has become a hero goes unreported, complicating efforts to urge the fugitive terrorist's extradition to Washington. How major media editors choose what's reported is an education.
There's an explosion of cheering in the Arab media today (like arb.im/1343778) at dismaying reports of confessed pizzeria bomber #AhlamTamimi being removed from @Interpol's Red Notices. Most claim she was "accused" of a role in the #Sbarro massacre. In reality...
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clips of #AhlamTamimi not only admitting but boasting of her central role in the blood-soaked barbarism that took 16 lives including our child's are all over the web. Tamimi's backers would probably hate for interviews like this one to go viral: #ExtraditeTamimi
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clips of #AhlamTamimi not only admitting but boasting of her central role in the blood-soaked barbarism that took 16 lives including our child's are all over the web. Tamimi's backers would probably hate for interviews like this one to go viral: #ExtraditeTamimi
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Sunday March 14, 2021 marks 4 years since @TheJusticeDept unsealed US Federal charges against #Tamimi for the American blood she shed. Please support our calls urging officials to finally insist Jordan stops dishonoring its treaty obligations and hands Tamimi over for trial.
Sunday March 14, 2021 marks 4 years since @TheJusticeDept unsealed US Federal charges against #Tamimi for the American blood she shed. Please support our calls urging officials to finally insist Jordan stops dishonoring its treaty obligations and hands Tamimi over for trial.
Like me, you may be offended or at least puzzled by views you sometimes see slipped into news reports. Could be spin; maybe bias. But only word captures how the mainstream news industry covers Jordan keeping a confessed bomber shielded from US justice.
The word is "silent".
The word is "silent".
This video clip has never been included in any mainstream news report: #AhlamTamimi, the Jordanian woman who says openly, for the record, that she bombed the Jerusalem #Sbarro pizzeria and calls it "my operation". Watch the smile as she tells it.
Hashemite Jordan could have denounced her, arrested her, tried her on terrorism charges, handed her to US law enforcement (as the treaty demands). Instead they did this: they let #AhlamTamimi host her own terror-promoting TV show, filmed weekly in Jordan's capital, for 5 years!
We're not drawing conclusions yet. #NizarTamimi, convicted murderer unjustly released from life imprisonment in the #ShalitDeal, wasn't deported by Israel. In 2012 we asked High Court to block Israel from letting him cross into Jordan to marry but failed. We're enquiring now.
In fact, Israel imposed conditions on #NizarTammi's commutation of sentence as they did on all 1,027 of the #ShalitDeal releasees. In his case, he was explicitly forbidden from leaving Judea & Samaria. The freedom of #AhlamTamimi, his cousin/wife, was conditional too. More later.
Multiple but unconfirmed #PalArab news sources are reporting this afternoon that #NizarTamimi - husband/cousin of the #Sbarro bomber and a convicted murder in his own right - has just left, is considering leaving or will soon be forced to leave, Jordan. None of it is confirmed.
Every journey and its milestones. Our petition asks @SecPompeo to push recalcitrant #Jordan to honor its treaty obligation to the US and extradite #Sbarro massacre mastermind #AhlamTamimi to stand trial in Washington. It's just gotten its ten thousandth signature. Onwards.
Have we won? No. Winning means changing attitudes in the media, politics and #Jordan. We're asking everyone who respects justice - who understands the catastrophic outcomes of shielding terrorists from the law - to sign. Please click change.org/ExtraditeTamimi
Watch the world's most wanted female terrorist (with a $5M reward on her head) gloat over how she killed the children in a pizzeria. #AhlamTamimi lives in Jordan where the monarchy keeps US law enforcement away and ensures she's free to spread bigoted incitement to more murders.
Here's some context to this Palestinian Arab urge to "bury loved ones". Take a moment to reflect on what the loved ones of the human bomb who devastated the #Sbarro pizzeria did with his remains when they got them. Think what was gained and what was lost.
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And while most readers of the tweet from @randawahbe will swallow his creative formulation ("who was murdered by Israeli soldiers") because they're not tuned in enough to the facts, Erekat's death came seconds after he rammed his fast-moving car into them ynetnews.com/article/Skwub6…
Makes sense that news reports focus on Hamas jihadist hosted by NATO leader despite $5M bounty on his head. But Hamas jihadist @FBIMostWanted #AhlamTamimi, #Sbarro bomber, has the same $5M bounty on her head. Jordan hosts and keeps her safe and free - as news industry looks away.
#AhlamTamimi lives undisguised, never in hiding for even a day, in Jordan's capital city Amman. For 5 years, she hosted a terrorism-promoting TV show from there, beamed throughout the world. She's still an influential columnist, media figure, object of open Jordanian adoration.
Here's one mainstream media report that does focus on the illicit freedom enjoyed by fugitive #AhlamTamimi and on how Jordan, a US ally, trashes its 1995 Extradition Treaty with the United States to keep her safe: thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2020/01/31-jan…
It's hard to find another. Why is that?
It's hard to find another. Why is that?
Today, Sunday August 9, is the anniversary of the 2001 Battle of Sbarro Pizzeria. Arnold Roth wishes others knew what he knows about Malki’s killer.
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The Battle of Sbarro targeted children, family groups, mothers with infants in strollers. The bomb was a male human being. He was attached to a case filled with explosives enhanced for flesh-ripping purposes with shrapnel. A TV reporter selected the site and planted him there.
When major parts of the Arabic-language media focus on the world's most wanted female fugitive, Jordan's #AhlamTamimi, it's not to say "How deplorable that we've made her an icon". But, as below, to raise concerns whether Jordan will succeed in keeping US law enforcement at bay.
A reminder to please get behind our efforts to see justice (yes, justice) done. It isn't going to happen unless there's significant US pressure.
change.org/ExtraditeTamimi
change.org/ExtraditeTamimi
If you haven't noticed: Jordan's @KingAbdullahII is one of the world's most interviewed, most welcomed-in-Washington leaders. Yet no investigative reporter, no justice-minded editor, no Mid East analyst has asked a single question of him about his harboring the #Sbarro bomber.
In 30 days, it will be 19 years since a #Sbarro pizzeria was bombed with 15 killed, 130 injured. On last year's anniversary, the @ADL Anti-Defamation League posed troubling questions to US A-G William P. Barr re Jordan blocking the bomber's extradition. They're blocking still.
Jordan doesn't claim #AhlamTamimi, the woman who planted the bomb, is innocent. No one does. It's made her an icon, a national hero. The Jordanians stare right back at you if you ask why they breach their 1995 Extradition Treaty and keep her safe and famous in their capital.
The US makes clear its treaty with Jordan is valid and binding. And this isn't one of those cases where there's a dispute about who did what to whom. The bomber appears often on Arab TV screens boasting of the details. So why do US Congresspeople duck and weave when we ask...
The dignity that comes from massacring a pizzeria filled with children.
Have just watched US Senate hearing into the appointment of an ambassador to Amman.
Guess how much attention the world's most wanted female fugitive living free in the capital of a strategic ally and Jordan's most important institutions shielding her from @TheJusticeDept got.
Guess how much attention the world's most wanted female fugitive living free in the capital of a strategic ally and Jordan's most important institutions shielding her from @TheJusticeDept got.
Simply beyond comprehension that the woman at the top of this thread, who boasts - boasts! - of killing many children including mine, evades US justice and lives like a queen in #Jordan because the US sees pursuing her as destabilizing its Jordanian ally.
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Dear @SecPompeo:
When you visit Jerusalem this week, please make time to meet us here. We're Frimet and Arnold Roth, parents of Malki, one of the US citizens murdered in the #Sbarro massacre engineered by a Jordanian whom @FBI and @TheJusticeDept want extradited.
Respectfully
When you visit Jerusalem this week, please make time to meet us here. We're Frimet and Arnold Roth, parents of Malki, one of the US citizens murdered in the #Sbarro massacre engineered by a Jordanian whom @FBI and @TheJusticeDept want extradited.
Respectfully
Republican lawmakers warn Jordan, which gets $1.7B in US assistance, may now face sanctions for failing to extradite #Sbarro massacre terrorist. @JTAnews report underscores invaluable role of @EMET4u in backing our efforts to see #AhlamTamimi face justice.
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Watch #AhlamTamimi gleefully boast of the children (our daughter is one of them) she blew up inside the pizzeria, and recall she's explicitly safeguarded by the Kingdom of Jordan (which ignores us), illicitly kept safe since 2013 from US prosecutors:
If you're an American Jewish community leader, we want to help you do what's needed so this confessed Jordanian bomber is brought to trial in DC on US Federal charges.
Jordan prevents it.
We're the parents of Malki Roth, one of the US citizens murdered in the #Sbarro massacre.
Jordan prevents it.
We're the parents of Malki Roth, one of the US citizens murdered in the #Sbarro massacre.
The Arabic media we scan daily as we try to get confessed #Sbarro bomber #AhlamTamimi extradited by Jordan to Washington almost never tell Arabic-speaking news consumers what the mass murderer *did*. Commonly call her "symbol of Palestinian resistance" or "hero". #MoralBankruptcy
@RoyaNews @RoyaNewsEnglish @SawabCenterEN @petranewsjordan @JoMedIns @JordanUN_NY @USAIDJordan @CVEjordan @daoudkuttab An example from this past week - one of many:
Leading Jordanian parliamentarian presses her government to resist "the American authorities" and their "unjust and illegitimate request that came under Israeli directives" to extradite #Tamimi:
[Source: alray.ps/ar/post/164111…]
Leading Jordanian parliamentarian presses her government to resist "the American authorities" and their "unjust and illegitimate request that came under Israeli directives" to extradite #Tamimi:
[Source: alray.ps/ar/post/164111…]
@RoyaNews @RoyaNewsEnglish @SawabCenterEN @petranewsjordan @JoMedIns @JordanUN_NY @USAIDJordan @CVEjordan @daoudkuttab Don't know what #AhlamTamimi, our child's fugitive killer, did to get onto the @FBIMostWanted terrorists list? That's because the media bury it. Watch as she sickeningly boasts to an eager celebrity TV interviewer of the joys of blowing up children.
@georgegalloway @BitarReal Have any of those baying for revenge against the Israelis - who had nothing to do with the accidental drowning Friday of a #PalArab boy in Jerusalem - joined our efforts to see the Jordanian woman who boasts of blowing up 16 innocent Jews in a #Sbarro pizzeria brought to justice?
@georgegalloway @BitarReal Hey @RashidaTlaib,
How about rechanneling some of your fury about a child's death that turns out to be an accident and help us see Jordan extradite an @FBIMostWanted woman who openly confesses to her crime?
How about rechanneling some of your fury about a child's death that turns out to be an accident and help us see Jordan extradite an @FBIMostWanted woman who openly confesses to her crime?
@georgegalloway @BitarReal @RashidaTlaib @FBIMostWanted Another request, @RashidaTlaib: Can you please retweet this to the always-infuriated @DrHananAshrawi who blocks our tweets? Thanks.
With due respect to all the relevant parties, that doesn't strike me as the right approach. @TheJusticeDept and @StateDept have tried since 2013 to persuade @JordanGov, which is party to an active extradition treaty with the US, to honor its obligations. Jordan's highest court
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declared in March 2017, less than a week after the charges against #AhlamTamimi were unsealed in Washington, that the treaty signed by the present king's father and the Clinton Administration was invalid on constitutional grounds. And had been invalid since day one!
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declared in March 2017, less than a week after the charges against #AhlamTamimi were unsealed in Washington, that the treaty signed by the present king's father and the Clinton Administration was invalid on constitutional grounds. And had been invalid since day one!
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The US says it doesn't agree [thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2019/11/03-nov…]. The confessed #Sbarro bomber, meanwhile, instead of preparing herself to face federal charges in Washington, lives the life of a privileged celebrity in Jordan. The kingdom enabled her to host a terror-inciting TV show
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The US says it doesn't agree [thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2019/11/03-nov…]. The confessed #Sbarro bomber, meanwhile, instead of preparing herself to face federal charges in Washington, lives the life of a privileged celebrity in Jordan. The kingdom enabled her to host a terror-inciting TV show
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Practically everything @MattiFriedman writes is incisive and worth the effort. This latest @NYTimes piece comes with a high-res photo of the devastated Sbarro pizzeria minutes after #AhlamTamimi delivered her human bomb there. My daughter's inside, dead. She isn't seen.
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My wife and I first heard of #Tamimi, a woman of 21 back then, much later via news reports. She confessed to her key role, never stopped grinning, confidently told the judges she would get out soon despite the 16 life term sentence they gave her.
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And she did. She walked free a few years later in the #ShalitDeal. With unreported help from the Kingdom of Jordan she quickly became a celebrity activist there for terror and its practitioners. She still is despite now being an @FBIMostWanted who faces charges in Washington.
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To our Jewish friends: As the heart-broken parents of #Malki Roth, a US citizen murdered at 15 in the pizzeria bombing that many remember, we are making serious efforts, against an unhelpful background, to see the central plotter of the #Sbarro massacre brought to justice.
To our Jewish friends: As the heart-broken parents of #Malki Roth, a US citizen murdered at 15 in the pizzeria bombing that many remember, we are making serious efforts, against an unhelpful background, to see the central plotter of the #Sbarro massacre brought to justice.
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Of all the many disappointments and frustrations that are part of that, none is quite as painful as having our requests for co-operation ignored by Jewish organizations, especially those based in the US. We're not naming names but if you have any influence at any of them...
Of all the many disappointments and frustrations that are part of that, none is quite as painful as having our requests for co-operation ignored by Jewish organizations, especially those based in the US. We're not naming names but if you have any influence at any of them...
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please urge their leaders to contact us. Getting justice for what was done to our daughter is part of a larger process that ultimately affects all of us. If you think that's going well, we ought to talk.
We're reachable at thisongoingwar@gmail.com
Frimet and Arnold Roth
please urge their leaders to contact us. Getting justice for what was done to our daughter is part of a larger process that ultimately affects all of us. If you think that's going well, we ought to talk.
We're reachable at thisongoingwar@gmail.com
Frimet and Arnold Roth
#AhlamTamimi: "I will defend my rights until my last breath. Greenblatt doesn't scare me. I am going on with my life... as a free citizen in #Jordan. I have not done anything against Americans."
The #Sbarro massacre mastermind is looking for more sympathy dlvr.it/R1JM4s
The #Sbarro massacre mastermind is looking for more sympathy dlvr.it/R1JM4s
"I'm Jordanian. These statements coincide with @KingAbdullahII’s meeting with [the Trump administration]. They spoke of... consolidating Jordanian/American relations in combating terror; then these statements were made. I leave readers... to analyse the timing of the 2 events."
Do #Jordan's political insiders realize #AhlamTamimi is implying it's @KingAbdullahII who's behind the wave of media attention about her being pursued by the @FBI? How much political capital can they burn just to shield this loathsome murderer of children?
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Meet #AhlamTamimi who killed my daughter #Malki and 15 others. Hard not to see the thrill she gets from talking about her massacre. She's not in prison: #Jordan's king can explain why.
Thanks to @MEMRIreports who do non-Arabic-speakers a great service by translating such clips.
Thanks to @MEMRIreports who do non-Arabic-speakers a great service by translating such clips.
I'm convinced that if enough people invest the 2 mins it takes to watch my daughter's proud, happy and free killer #AhlamTamimi, we'll have enough public opinion behind us to ensure Jordan, which shields her today, hands her over for extradition to the US (they currently refuse).
