Amman – Jordan’s highest court has upheld a lower court’s decision to deny a U.S. request to extradite a woman who was involved in a suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, including two Americans.
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Last week, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed the charge against Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who is in her mid-30s and also is known as Khalti and Halati, for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against American citizens.
In 2003, she pleaded guilty in an Israeli court to multiple counts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison, but was released and returned to Jordan in 2011 as part of the controversial deal to free kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in which Israel exchanged 1,027 prisoners. The Justice Department is seeking her extradition to stand trial.
The Jordanian Court of Cassation upheld the lower court’s decision on Monday, reportedly because an extradition agreement between the two countries signed in 1995 was never ratified by the Jordanian parliament, according to the Petra news agency, citing an unnamed judicial source.
Al-Tamimi is accused of being involved in the suicide bombing at a Sbarro pizza restaurant that left 122 injured, including four Americans. The charge had been sealed since July 2013.
According to the U.S. affidavit, Al-Tamimi traveled with the suicide bomber, led the bomber to a crowded area and provided instructions on how to detonate the weapon. She had agreed to carry out attacks on behalf of Hamas’ military wing, the affidavit said.
The FBI has placed her on its Most Wanted Terrorist List.
Even peaceful moderate muslims hate us.
OK—so now we know exactly where she is–time for a good old-fashioned “Hellfire” Purim card!! דמד