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Parents of Sbarro bombing victim urge US to demand extradition of Hamas terrorist behind attack
2025-06-04
[IsraelTimes] Frimet and Arnold Roth, the parents of Malki Roth, an American citizen killed at age 15 in the 2001 Sbarro Pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem, met last month with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to deliver a petition urging the extradition of the attack’s orchestrator, Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, from Jordan, according to a statement shared by the parents today.

"This is a matter of justice for the families of murdered Americans," Arnold told Huckabee during a May 13 meeting at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, according to the family’s statement.

The Roths presented Huckabee with a petition bearing 30,000 signatures and demanding that Washington press Jordan to extradite Tamimi, who was convicted in an Israeli court for playing a central role in the suicide kaboom that killed 16 people, including seven children and a pregnant woman, and injured 130 more. Temimi later found shelter in Jordan after being released from prison in the 2011 deal in which Israel freed 1,027 forces of Evil in exchange for captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

"What brought us to the embassy was remembrance, but also justice," Arnold continued. "Justice in the Tamimi prosecution has been thwarted for years and barely mentioned publicly by the very US officials who bear the responsibility of bringing the runaway to trial. We came to implore the government represented by Ambassador Huckabee to carry out its duty to protect and stand for American victims of terrorism abroad."

The petition was submitted for delivery to US President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
, US Attorney General Pam Bondi, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
, the statement adds, and urges Jordan to honor its 1995 extradition treaty with the US. Despite the treaty, Jordan’s high court blocked Tamimi’s extradition in 2017, reportedly claiming the agreement was never ratified, a contention disputed by Washington.

The Roths also presented Huckabee with a photo of Malki’s shattered phone, recovered from the attack site, on which she had written a Hebrew message about the Jewish prohibition against speaking ill of others. "This phone is one of the few physical traces we have left of Malki," he said.

Shortly before King Abdullah II’s February meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, Arab media reported that Jordanian intelligence had warned Hamas Tamimi might be handed over unless another country agreed to take her in. No official sources confirmed the reports.

Since her release, Tamimi has lived openly in Jordan, where she holds citizenship, and has publicly glorified the bombing. In a 2017 News Agency that Dare Not be Named interview, she stated that Paleostinians have the right to resist Israel "by any means," including deadly attacks.

"Tamimi has never shown the smallest degree of remorse. The massacre she spearheaded made her a celebrity in Jordan and beyond...It is unconscionable that Jordan, a lavishly funded beneficiary of US tax-payer-funded aid, has enabled her to be glorified as an icon while her victims’ families — including American families — are ignored," Arnold said in the meeting.
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Ahlam Tamimi 06/01/2023 Woman in coma since 2001 Sbarro Palestinian terror attack dies of wounds
Ahlam Tamimi 07/11/2022 Slain Israeli-American girl’s parents seek meeting with Biden during Jerusalem visit

Posted by:trailing wife

#3  I had a mall job once and ate Sbarros frequently, this sucide bombing hit close to home. I always thought that that it could very well of been me in line that day getting pizza only to be blown up b/c I wanted some lunch.
Posted by: mossomo   2025-06-04 13:12  

#2  24 years for 30,000 signatures seems a little theatrical. Surely they could buy someone to slam his head in a car door for less.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-06-04 08:11  

#1  Seems like a reasonable request. Not sure why people even have to beg for justice.
Posted by: Airandee   2025-06-04 06:25  

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