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09-Feb-18: Acting slowly in Jordan and the United States?

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A syndicated article entitled Despite reward for fugitive Palestinian terrorist, U.S. and Jordan remain slow to act was published Thursday on the JNS website. Authored by the historian Rafael Medoff, it quotes several voices expressing concern about the failure of Jordan’s Hashemite government to hand over for extradition to the US the confessed mass-murdererer and fugitive FBI Most Wanted Terrorist, Ahlam Tamimi. She’s the killer of our daughter, Malki, a US citizen. 

It opens this way:

The Trump administration has offered a $5 million reward for the capture of a Palestinian terrorist in Jordan, but apparently has not asked the Jordanian government to hand her over. Relatives of the terrorist’s victims are expressing disappointment and anger at what they call a half-hearted U.S. effort in this and similar cases. The terrorist at the center of the controversy is Ahlam Ahmad al-Tamimi, one of the masterminds of the Aug. 9, 2001 bombing of the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. Fifteen people were killed in the blast, including two U.S. citizens: New Jersey schoolteacher Judith Greenbaum and 15-year-old Malki Roth… [MORE]

We hope it gets attention in some of the right places.

From our vantage point, having been in private dialogue of various kinds with US government officials about the matters raised in the JNS article, it’s extremely disheartening to see the brick walls that Dr Medoff has encountered in trying to understand what’s going on – and what’s not.

Also published yesterday, the US Secretary of State is making an official visit to Jordan in the next few days.

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