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Chair, @MalkiFoundation named for our child • My wife @FrimetRoth and I pursue justice and oppose terror via our joint blog @ThisOngoingWar • Attorney 1977-2017

Dec 18, 2022, 8 tweets

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Thread: The @StateDept and the fugitive bomber

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It starts with how @NedPrice, @StateDept mouthpiece for the claim that accountability is needed in the cases of an @Aljazeera reporter and a girl on a Jenin rooftop, both killed in gunfights where #PalArab shooters were wildly active, avoids all mention of my murdered daughter.

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You need to follow social media posts to understand the point. Since 2017, the mainstream media suppress how Jordanian terrorist #AhlamTamimi, an indited fugitive from US justice, admits she's the bomber of a pizzeria filled with Jewish kids. Jordan illicitly safeguards her.

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On very rare occasions, journalists have asked the @StateDept why the US allows lavishly-funded US ally Jordan, obliged by treaty to extradite fugitives like Tamimi when the US requests it, to keep getting away with harboring her. This mantra is the usual response.

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The @StateDept is acutely aware of the #Tamimi case: a fugitive shamefully harbored by Jordan from US prosecution. While @NedPrice speaks of US determination to get justice and accountability in *other* cases, he never mentions Malki Roth, one of Tamimi's American victims.

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No one in Washington thinks Jordan is entitled to shield Tamimi from the 2013 US charges. But fugitive Tamimi is widely admired in Jordan for what she did. And Jordan has powerful friends. So US officials just keep claiming to "seek her extradition" and there's no push-back.

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Mr @StateDeptSpox:
Our child, an American, was murdered in a massacre spearheaded by a boastful Jordanian savage who's built a celebrity career out of it, kept safe from US prosecutors by a Jordanian claim no one believes. Killed at 15, that lovely child has a name.
It's Malki.

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The mainstream media are content to divert US attention from the details of how Jordan, a lavishly-funded US ally and treaty partner, stands in solidarity with an indicted killer of innocents, some of them Americans. This petition [change.org/ExtraditeTamimi] is a way to protest.

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