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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2/ 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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3/ 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.
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Years after our child was murdered in the 2001 bombing of a child-filled pizzeria, we're urged to leave it alone, move on. The most persuasive ripost comes from @BBC which in October, recognizing #AhlamTamimi's status as a celebrity, depicted the boastful killer as a victim.
Care to know the last time the @BBC reported on our ongoing efforts to see #AhlamTamimi extradited by Jordan (which illicitly safeguards her) to Washington where she faces trial for terror offences under US law?
We do too.
But ask when @BBC last gave totally sympathetic coverage to the woman who claims credit for the Jerusalem pizzeria massacre and the targeting of the Jewish children there. That we can certainly tell you.
Anyone with a sense of decency and respect for justice knows how inexcusable it is that @BBC gives vital oxygen to the demands and 'victimhood' of the #SbarroMonster [here: bbc.com/arabic/tv-and-…] while ignoring us and the other families of her victims.
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Unless you speak Arabic, you're likely unaware that @YouTube's version of the same @BBC video clip had 275,000 views by Friday when it was turned private and thus unviewable. See the translation into English: palwatch.org/page/18280
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Whatever @BBC does now, 9 days after its @BBCArabic "Trending" TV show went to air and online, is largely irrelevant. In targeting Arabic-speaking audiences globally, they articulated a message of emphatic support for the "rights" of fugitive felons like #Tamimi. Disgraceful.
The clip of the most wanted female fugitive alive, Jordanian VIP/bomber #AhlamTamimi, is still up on @Facebook. The page belongs to an entity absurdly calling itself (in Arabic) "Prisoners of War". Remember this when @Facebook next boasts of its high-minded #CommunityStandards.
It's now 09:00 EDT Wednesday and the speech by the most wanted female fugitive alive, an @FBIMostWanted who boasts of killing children in a pizzeria including our daughter, remains up and accessible on @Facebook as it has been since September 11. @Facebook's response? You know.
Jordanian officials assert in off-the-record briefings that @FBIMostWanted fugitive #AhlamTamimi has no role in kingdom's public discourse. Has anyone told *her*? Celebrating 9/11 this week, she Zoom-lectured how media must do more to back #PalArab terror. archive.is/EHt4x
Calling all news reporters: What would get you to ask the embassy of Jordan in whatever country you're based (or @RHCJO in Jordan) for a reaction? How do they explain harboring a confessed killer of children on the run from their most important ally's criminal justice system?
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2/ Sure the Jordanians will squirm. The freedom and fame of this @FBIMostWanted killer is something they prefer to hide. But with #AhlamTamimi a celebrity in Jordan - hero, icon, inspiration to more terror - isn't this why we need an enquiring news industry?
Occasionally, complex political entanglements come down to a basic choice: evil versus good. The gleeful killer of children on the left is shielded from US justice by the Hashemite Kingdom of #Jordan. The smiley innocent child on the right is our murdered daughter. Pick a side.
When you have decided, please show you are with us by signing our petition. We're asking the US government, which in large measure keeps Jordan afloat, to raise its voice and explain to Jordan its obligations under the 1995 treaty. Help us in this.
The thousands who viewed the tweet above might be startled to know Jordan's king who shields the woman on the left, a confessed bomber who admits to deep murderous bigotry, hosted an international conference this week *against* terror.
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.
2/ 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.