Mr @NedPrice@StateDeptSpox
Though you and your staff keep ignoring us parents of one of the Americans murdered by this woman, more than 20,000 ordinary people who have signed our petition ask, as we do, why #AhlamTamimi has still not been extradited by Jordan to Washington.
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2/ Our quest for American justice has no partisan aspect. What we ask you and @SecBlinken and Pres @JoeBiden is what we asked the Obama and Trump administrations and your response is no better than theirs. March 14 marks 5 years since @TheJusticeDept charged her. Where's justice?
3/ If you're new to the confounding saga of #AhlamTamimi and her obscene, ongoing freedom, we offer this video clip we made in 2021 to provide a quick background narrative. A shame the mainstream media have failed to do anything comparable.
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@SecBlinken, senior officials told us recently that @StateDept prioritizes getting Jordan to extradite @FBIMostWanted fugitive #AhlamTamimi to Wash DC as the treaty requires. Does no mention of it in the "great" @AymanHSafadi visit briefings signify progress? Or the opposite?
2/ The Jordanian woman is a confessed bomber who has taken to urging groups of youngsters to take pride, as she does, in the fate of the victims of the savage bombing she orchestrated. Our 15 year old daughter Malki, an American, was one of the "Zionists" she blew up that day.
3/ Tamimi's face has appeared on these @FBIMostWanted posters since March 2017. Oddly the posters have never appeared publicly in Jordan in all that time. This may be connected to how the bomber was then and still is an icon and a hero in Jordan, a US ally.
Jordan's @RoyaTV deal with a German media giant has hit a wall over "concerns about anti-Israeli and antisemitic content... not consistent with the values of DW" [timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…] Good for @DeutscheWelle: the dark side of Jordan's media gets a free pass too often.
3/ The Roya Media Group's CEO in a media release today: "No one should expect us not to cover Israeli hostile actions that affect innocent civilians in fear of accusations of antisemitism." en.royanews.tv/news/33079/202…
Fighting words. Now let's talk about #AhlamTamimi...
Pause and think for a moment of the monstrosity of a woman, having just bombed a pizzeria filled with kids, rushing from the scene of the atrocity to the TV studio where she worked and blandly reporting it as the story of the day.
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2/ @AhlamTamimi's incredible fame and obscene stature in today's Jordan was underscored by how Jordan's king escaped all probing questions in his Washington stay during July. No one pressed him - certainly not the many lawmakers who honored him in Congress.
3/ Worse, official spokespersons for both @POTUS and @SecBlinken performed acrobatics to avoid answering attempts by two @AP reporters to have them answer the highly complicated question "Was the Tamimi issue raised?" So far, the same spox have avoided our questions too.
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Every day since March 2017 we have hoped to hear senior officials of the US @StateDept publicly call out Jordan and its leadership for failing to extradite the #SbarroBomber to Washington as the 1995 Jordan/US treaty requires. Instead through the years we get this sad mantra:
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Though there's a $5M @StateDept reward on her head, none is needed to locate the fugitive. She's lived the life of a celebrity in Jordan since 2011, proudly taking credit for the bombing. Yet no senior US official challenged Jordan's failure during @KingAbdullah's July visit...
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The fact that elected officials and civil servants are plainly reluctant to address the #AhlamTamimi scandal in public raises troubling questions about justice. And since they won't speak truth to power, what's become of the enquiring major media and their probing questions?
Jordan began shirking its treaty responsibility to the US in March 2017. It continues to shelter the world's most wanted fugitive female, the #Sbarro bomber, who remains free and famous despite Jordan's responsibility to hand her over for trial in DC as the treaty requires...
We're the parents of one of the Jordanian fugitive bomber's many victims. Our child, a US national, was murdered at the age of 15. And America's senior leadership isn't sure whether it raised the matter of the @FBIMostWanted terrorist's extradition with #Jordan's ruler.
We're parents of a child murdered in a massacre for which a Jordanian terrorist claims 'credit'. We seek to communicate our message during @KingAbdullahII's long current DC visit. @StateDept reacts mostly with mantras, derision, silence. Yet look at this
Give us a voice, ladies and gentlemen of the news industry. Let us be heard on this vital matter of moral responsibility, leaders of @StateDept. Hear us on accountability and core democratic values, @SecBlinken. We don't intend to let you keep silencing our calls for justice.