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.
Knowing these details, Mr @StateDeptSpox, and what has and (much more significantly) has not happened in the years since then, you might sense how disheartening it is for us to see your @StateDept put out messages like the one below year after year. (This one's from July 2021.)
Isn't it time, Mr @NedPrice@StateDeptSpox, to finally be open about how Jordan has refused US demands since 2017 to extradite the #Sbarro bomber to Washington under the treaty? And that it is Jordan's support of the terrorist that explains the US failure to bring her to justice?
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I have not yet met a member of Congress who views @FBIMostWanted#AhlamTamimi as worthy of being defended. She openly admits bombing the pizzeria where my child's life ended. She faces US terror charges but is kept out of @FBI hands by Jordan's govt. Jordan's king is in...
...Washington at this moment. He's being honored in the Oval Office, the House and the Senate. In the US news media too. That's troubling because it's his tightly controlled regime that has thwarted US justice since the charges were unsealed in 2017. I'm infuriated by the empty
...words of @StateDept officials who for years have declared their determination to see #AhlamTamimi, the admitted bomber, brought to US justice. Yet here we are, years later, and the bomber's celebrity status in Jordan keeps rising.
I'm speaking at a @CAMERAorg Webinar Feb 11 at 1pm ET on terror and my family's quest for justice. Our daughter Malki was murdered at 15 in the #PalArab terror attack on a pizzeria. Appalling to me how the bomber's freedom and fame are ignored. To register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
This is her. Jordan's government and diplomats don't want you to know how widely #AhlamTamimi is adored by Jordanian society. The reason why has to do with dead Jewish children like mine. The media suppress this for reasons I think I can explain.
If only my wife and I could compel the many politicians, diplomats, editors, commentators, human rights 'champions' and #justice 'heroes' who suppress the shabby story of this woman's freedom to look her evil in the face: #AhlamTamimi, our child's free-as-a-bird killer
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.
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!
I sometimes need to say this to others so I can make sense of it to myself: This woman, alive, happy, protected in ways most people wouldn't believe by a government that's on fine terms with most countries, is famous because she murdered my 15 year old daughter and 14 others.
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She will stay famous, free, upbeat and adored in #Jordan where she lives until my wife and I and our friends manage to find the way to have the US government raise its voice and tell Jordan this is sickening and under the treaty she has to be sent to Washington this afternoon
3/ We've pushed for this since the US unsealed terror charges against this woman (who is a Hamas agent) in March 2017. Few people ever argue back at bereaved parents like us. Instead, as the news industry and too many officials and lawmakers do, they just stare.
The Sep'19 tweet below was just RTed by someone. I'm the father of a child murdered by this famed Jordanian terrorist. Every time I or friends reach out to Jordanian officials, they stay silent. The strategy makes sense for them since the news industry pays no attention.
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That's a shabby thing. On one hand, for the US she's one of only two women on the @FBIMostWanted terrorist list with a $5M reward on her head since 2018. On the other, Jordan shelters her, lets her live a free, unrestricted life in its capital. She's never been in hiding.
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And the news industry? Those unstoppable investigative journalists? All the moralizing about terror, justice, lives that matter? Did you ever see a mainstream news report about this confessed bomber? A celebrity with her own TV show for years? The incredible life she lives?
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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.
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.