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There is a $5 million bounty for information that assists in the arrest or conviction of Ahlam Ahmad al-Tamimi for role in a bombing that killed two Americans.
The FBI has gone to social media in an attempt to expedite her capture.
Tamimi has been accused of planning and executing an attack at a Sbarro in Jerusalem that killed 15 people. This attack was labeled as particularly heinous because eight children are included in the casualties. 122 total people were injured from the bomb.
Two Americans were also killed in the blast. 15-year-old Malki Roth, and a pregnant Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum sadly los their lives that day in the explosion.
This pro-Hamas terrorist attack was carried out in the fall of 2001. She was later arrested and found guilty in an Israeli court. Taimini was sentenced to 250 years (16 life sentences) for the part she played in the attack.
U.S. law impacted the trial because although Tamimi was born in Australia, she held an American citizenship at the time of the bombing.
In 2011, Israel traded Palestine one Israeli soldier for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in return. Tamimi was one of the prisoners released from custody. She was one of several prisoners that were serving life sentences for deadly attacks on Israeli citizens.
Tamimi is free now and living in Jordan. The U.S. states would like to utilize their authorit to prosecute Tamimi in American court, but do this, Jordan must agree to extradite her.
Jordan is refusing to extradite the infamous terrorist.
Fox News reported on the attention she is now getting as a free woman.
Tamimi, who is now 39, refers to herself as a journalist and was purportedly given free rein to host her own program on a local TV station broadcast from the city of Ramallah, focused on “occupation practices.” Moreover, she was left unencumbered to bolster a heroic image, of which she has dedicated fan pages, which claim that she “holds a medal of honor” for her “life imprisonment in Zion prisons.”
Tamimi has also given several interviews detailing and illuminating her role, admitting that she selected the restaurant because it was known to be a favorite for families, and expressing her delight that so many children were slain.
“I was really shocked at the American behavior,” Tamimi told an Al Jazeera reporter from her home in the Jordanian capital of Amman in 2017, detailing how she was suddenly arrested by a branch of Interpol and spent one night in jail before successfully fighting extradition through the Jordanian courts. “The U.S. government, who is always trying to solve the problems of the world, has decided to go after one woman for no obvious reasons.”
Multiple attempts have been made by the U.S. government in the pursuit of justice for the American lives lost in 2001 at the hands of Tamimi but Jordanian officials have disputed their ability to extradite. Their claim is that they do not have an extradition treaty with America, but the U.S. authorities disagree.
The report from Fox News offered another possibility for the gridlock. It stated “He stressed that even without a formally ratified treaty, King Abdullah “can override the courts’ decision not to extradite Tamimi” and that it is “a matter of weighing potential damage to the U.S.-Jordan relationship versus the threat of upsetting some on the Jordanian street.”
A majority of Jordanians have a connection to Palestine, but in 1993, Jordan did bypass the extradition loophole and transferred a participant in the first bombing of the World Trade Center to authorities for prosecution in a U.S. court.
The Trump administration does have the ability to apply pressure to Jordan by threatening to withhold financial assistance, but for now the two supposed allies remain at uncomfortable standstill at a time where there is already turmoil brewing.
