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.
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The reporter/bomber went on to make a successful TV career in Jordan, giving standing-room-only speeches in other Arab countries. But no one wants her more than the @FBI does. The US announced terror charges against her in 2017. But #Jordan shields her, blocking her arrest.
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Largely unreported by American or other Western media, @FBIMostWanted terrorist #AhlamTamimi is today a Jordanian celebrity, an inspiration for more terror. Jordan's foreign minister has assured its citizens the kingdom has no intention of handing her over to US authorities.
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We're the parents of one of #AhlamTamimi's American victims. The power to insist Jordan hands her over for prosecution in Washington is with politicians. You and we and other ordinary people can sign petitions. It's not much but it helps.
Please sign! change.org/ExtraditeTamimi
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What captures the hideosity of the #Sbarro bloodbath more clearly than this? The photo, from a 2001 video clip, shows the confessed bomber (who later openly called it "my operation") #AhlamTamimi reading the evening TV news, starting with the massacre she herself executed.
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