Ahlam Tamimi is the photogenic Palestinian Arab woman, and murderer, who was the mastermind of the suicide bombing at the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem in 2001. She selected the place and time of the attack for maximum casualties (families with children, on an outing to have pizza), and drove the bomber to the site, where he set off a bomb, killing 15 people, seven of them children. Two of those murdered were American citizens; a third American citizen has been in a vegetative state ever since. Washington has made endless efforts to get Jordan to honor its extradition treaty with the U.S. and deliver Tamimi up to American justice, but so far Jordan has refused, claiming the treaty has not yet been ratified. The Jordanian authorities can extradite her without a treaty, but they are scared of the reaction of their Palestinian population.
Ahlam Tamimi has been treated as a celebrity in Jordan; she even has her own television talk show, Nasim Al-Ahrar (Breeze of the Free), on the Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds TV. It deals with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. She and her husband Nizar, another terrorist, have been doing well financially; they are celebrated, rather than shunned, for their terrorist murders.
Tamimi has never expressed any remorse for her act of mass murder: “I do not regret what happened. Absolutely not. This is the path. I dedicated myself to Jihad for the sake of Allah, and Allah granted me success. You know how many casualties there were [in the 2001 attack on the Sbarro pizzeria]. This was made possible by Allah. Do you want me to denounce what I did? That’s out of the question. I would do it again today, and in the same manner.”
Tamimi has also expressed satisfaction at the sizable death count, including those of the children, and recounted her earlier disappointment when initial reports stated lower counts. In short, this sweetly-smiling woman is a monster.
Now news comes that the government of Jordan has expelled Nizar Tamimi, the husband of Ahlam and himself a terrorist. The story of that expulsion, and its significance, is here.
Jordan has reportedly expelled the husband of US-wanted terrorist Ahlam Tamimi.
Nizar Tamimi, 46, arrived in Qatar after the Hashemite Kingdom refused to renew his residency and asked him to leave within 48 hours, reported the pan-Arab publication Al-Quds Al-Arabi on Thursday [
Ahlam Tamimi, 39, has been accused of being the mastermind behind the Sbarro Pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem on Aug. 9, 2001, that killed 15 people, including seven children, and wounded 130 others. Among those killed were two American citizens, 15-year-old Malki Roth and 31-year-old Judith Greenbaum, who was pregnant at the time. A third American, Chana Nachenberg, has remained in a permanent vegetative state ever since.
Nizar Tamimi was sentenced to life imprisonment for being involved in the 1993 murder and subsequent burning of Chaim Mizrahi.
Chaim Mizrahi was an Israeli who in 1993 had gone to buy eggs from a Palestinian farmer with whom he was friendly. Instead, Ahlam Tamimi’s cousin and future husband) Nizar Tamimi, and still another cousin, Said Tamimi, were waiting for Mizrahi. They stabbed him, stuffed him in the trunk of his car, and burned him alive. No wonder Ahlam Tamimi found Nizar Tamimi to be just the man for her.
Both Tamimis [Ahlam and Nizar] were released from prison in 2011 in an exchange between Israel and Hamas for captured Israel Defense Forces’ soldier Gilad Shalit. They married after their release.
Jordan has argued that it cannot extradite Ahlam Tamimi to the United States, where she is on its “Most Wanted Terrorist” list, since she has Jordanian citizenship and a 1995 extradition agreement with the United States was not ratified by Jordan’s government. The United States has offered a $5 million reward for her capture and conviction.
The failure of the Jordanian government to ratify its extradition treaty with the U.S. merely means that Jordan is not obligated to, but it still can if it wishes, extradite Ahlam Tamimi to the U.S. That Jordan, which has received billions of dollars in aid from the United States over the years, refuses to comply with Washington’s request, should have consequences: no more aid to Amman until it hands over Ahlam Tamimi, who aside from the dozen Israelis whom she helped to murder, and the 150 who were wounded, is responsible for the deaths of two Americans, and the permanent vegetative state of a third. Even to start discussing this possibility should be enough to get Amman’s attention. Or could it be that Amman, by expelling her husband, may have also rid itself of the problem of Ahlam?
However, reportedly, the Jordanian move to expel Nizar Tamimi could cause his wife to join him in Qatar, which does not have an extradition treaty with the United States….
One assumes that Ahlam Tamimi will not want to be separate from her husband, and will join him in Qatar. The Jordanian government will then have rid itself of a problem. As long as Ahlam Tamimi was in Jordan, the Americans would keep after Amman to extradite her to the U.S., and keep upping the economic threats, of slashing aid, when Jordan refused. The Jordanians would not have wanted to expel Ahlam to Qatar; she is much too popular a figure, with her television talk show, and such an attempt could lead to street demonstrations. But by expelling her husband they can create the conditions that should lead to her voluntary exile to Qatar.
There are a few reasons why Qatar might be more amenable to extraditing Ahlam Tamimi to the U.S. than Jordan is. First, there is demography. 70% of the Jordanian population is Palestinian, either registered as “refugees” or known to be descendants of Palestinians and therefore, continue to be counted as Palestinians – a very large and devoted fan club for Tamimi. Qatar, by contrast, has only 100,000 Palestinians out of a population of 3 million, and any street demonstrations against her being sent to the U.S. are likely to be small and easily suppressed.
Second, Qatar also wants to curry favor with the U.S. Doha wants the Americans to maintain their current presence with 10,000 military, both the Air Force and the Army, at Al-Udeid Air Base. Qatar sees that American presence as a guarantee of its security, should the Gulf Arab states now aligned against it – especially Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. — ever threaten to invade.
Third, Qatar has cultivated strong ties with American universities. Six of them have branch campuses in Qatar’s Education City complex. These are Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, Weill-Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Texas A & M University in Qatar, Carnegie-Mellon University in Qatar, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, and Northwestern University. These six American campuses are the centerpiece of Qatar’s plans to improve its offerings in higher education.
Fourth, economic ties between Qatar and the U.S. are constantly increasing. The U.S. is Qatar’s most important foreign investor and its single largest source of imports, as well as a major customer for its hydrocrabons.
Qatar would prefer not to antagonize the U.S. by refusing an American request to hand over the likes of Ahlam Tamimi. There is no telling what the American response would be if it did so: Washington could cut back its military personnel at Udeid Air Base. It could make it harder for Qataris to study in the U.S., and for American universities to open, or continue to operate, those highly lucrative campuses in Doha; it could make it harder for Americans to invest in Qatar; Washington could decrease its purchases of oil from Qatar, and supplant them with oil from the U.A.E. or Saudi Arabia. Why should Qatar risk damage to its relations with the mighty U.S. , by refusing to hand over Ahlam Tamimi, if it doesn’t have to worry – unlike Jordan — about domestic unrest from local Palestinians?
I suspect that Ahlam Tamimi will move to Qatar to be with her husband, cousin, and fellow murderer Nizar. She likely overestimates her popularity in Qatar, where Palestinians are at most one-fiftieth the number in Jordan, and underestimates the close ties with the U.S. — economic, educational, military — that the Qataris do not wish to damage in any way. She may rely on the fact that Qatar has no extradition treaty with the U.S., unaware that a nation-state has a right, though not an obligation, to extradite anyone it so chooses. As soon as she lands in Doha, the Qataris may surprise everyone – including an aghast Ahlam Tamimi – by bundling her off to Washington on the next military plane leaving Al-Udeid. That would win Doha many points in Washington, and likely happen too quickly for the relative handful of Palestinians in Doha to mount a public protest – something they may not want to do anyway, lest the Qatari authorities have them arrested and expelled from Qatar for their “attempted damage to public order.” Altogether, for Amman that passed the buck, for Doha that sent her packing, and for Washington that will likely have Ahlam Tamimi in custody for the rest of her unappetizing life, a satisfactory conclusion.
Mykejohn says
Can anyone tell me if a muslima goes to be with allah how many men shall she be given, half of that of men?
Ole Pederson says
None. As the prophet once stated, the majority in hell are women!
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Lilith Wept says
Mohammed said that women’s jihad was making pilgrimage to Mecca.
And that her salvation , if she went to Paradise or not, was based on how well her husband was satisfied wirh her and her behaviour!
I think she should have been covertly kidnapped and brought to the US or Israel to stand trial.
Rufolino says
There is nothing in the world quite so ugly as a cruel woman.
Honest Ali says
In Islamic heaven, a Muslim woman gets to sit with no thoughts in a corner of her husbands palace, while he diddles his other wives and sex slaves… like a good Stepford wife. Non-Muslim women in hell are sent to the sex slave market in heaven… That is what Muhammad said, Look it up.
R Thomasson says
The place of Islamic women in paradise depends solely on one thing: how pretty they are. When a woman is pretty and young enough to stand the needed standards ((preferable are girls under the age of 10 y.o.), they will join this dirty women- and children unfriendly Copacabana. They’ll find their place in the group of hookers who are running there naked, and please horny men who’re walking with the zipper of their trousers open. If she is far too old and ugly, she goes straight into Islamic paradise garbage bin together with her veil.
gravenimage says
Islam never makes clear what the Houris are–if they are human women or some sort of made-to-order sex slaves. I don’t think most pious Muslims particularly care.
FYI says
The men get 72 Houris.
The muslimas?
Maybe its 36 gorgeous men:but they are all ….gay
They don’t call allah the ‘BEST of deceivers’ for nothing.
Rufluc says
It is widely known that the best of deceivers is Satan. Therefore Satan=Allah!!
It’s just that brain washed Muslims refuse to see the truth, despite all the overwhelming evidence. And this Tamimi and Nazir are just two of his evil disciples carrying out the work of Satan.
david hennrich says
Guess you forgot to mention that she was released from prison in Israel as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011?
Westman says
Which part of, “Both Tamimis [Ahlam and Nizar] were released from prison in 2011 in an exchange between Israel and Hamas for captured Israel Defense Forces’ soldier Gilad Shalit. “, was left unread?
I’m surprised that they have not been “dissapeared” by Israel in the manner of others who murdered Israelis and then escaped to another country. They may soon be anxiously looking over their shoulders.
Phil Copson says
I always appreciate Hugh Fitzgerald’s insights, but expounding his theories on the possible consequences of moving to Qatar is just placing vanity ahead of sanity.
Does HF think that Ahlam Tamimi’s acolytes won’t already have read this ? This was a good time to keep your thoughts to yourself.
elee says
Capture and if taken alive, imprison and isolate FOREVER.
Sylvia Drummond says
Hanged, drawn and quartered would be preferable. Evil incarnate child killer.
John says
Sulimani Style drone strike on her tv station while taping her show sounds like a better solution.
tim gallagher says
What’s that quote from one of Shakespeare’s plays about how someone can smile and smile and yet be a scoundrel, or words to that effect. It would seem to apply very well to this evil piece of shit. But I suppose, from her twisted Muslim view of the world, she thinks she is doing the right thing. Personally, I find the entire Muslim view of things evil and sickening. I just can’t find anything decent in the whole way they view life.
mortimer says
Ahlam Tamimi dedicates herself to jihad for the cause of Allah. She is a terrorist through and through.
jewdog says
Jordan and Israel just concluded an agreement for mutual air overflights. Meanwhile, the Jordanian parliament overwhelmingly voted to free the murderer who killed some young Israeli tourists several years ago. Thus, we see a strange mix of pragmatism and Islamic fanaticism in Jordan. If it weren’t in such a strategic location it wouldn’t get two cents in aid.
Colin Mayhew says
get this evil person dealt with as quickly as possible,has gone on too long!!
gravenimage says
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Tamimi?
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*Of course* Jordan loves this murderous Jihadist.
R Thomasson says
What I’m about to write here, would not appeal to some folks here. Though, the 1st Amendment of US Constitution, gives space also for deviate opinions. The problem is not with Ahlem Tamimi, and not with her brothers in crime. It is with the people WHO HAD LET HER GO! People who DID NOT CARE that she had murdered 15 people, 7 children among them. She had nearly wiped out the whole Dutch family, Schijveschuurder: both parents and three of their children. Only one of the children survived. She was severely wounded, and needed years to recover. 130 people, who came to enjoy a slice of pizza, were wounded. Many of them severely. The government of Israel had to give a clear order TO NEUTRALIZE HER AND HER BUDDIES, and expel her whole family as a security threat. There was enough space for them in Syria or any other Arab country. For some hideous reason she was allowed to live on the costs of her victims, and enjoy freedom. In 2011 she was released from prison to enjoy a Dolce Vita. Ahlem Tamimi, and her sort, can be compared to Grizzly bears in nature parks as Yellowstone. Attacking is embedded in their genes. When a bear attacks travellers in Yellowstone, he is regarded as a dangerous bear. The authorities tend to kill him, in order to save other people lives. This is something that both Israeli P.M. of this time (2001 – 2011) had not taken into an account. A Grizzly bear kills less people than beasts named Palestinians, and species related to their blood thirsty god. Beasts are not able to show any regret, because beasts don’t know what it means. Thank heaven, the man who granted her freedom, is not with us any more. After more actions in which people were not taken into consideration, He was called by Grim Reaper to enjoys a warm place in the lowest part of hell.
gravenimage says
R Thomasson, with all respect, the claim that Israel cared nothing for the victims here is mistaken.
Tamimi was released along with other Jihadists to save Gilad Shalit, who had been kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas and held *for five years*. He had been injured and had not received proper treatment.
Israel had no good choices when Hamas demanded the release of these Jihadists. Shalit would probably have been murdered if they had refused. Other attempts to free him had failed. Hamas threatened to “disappear” Shalit if negotiations broke down.
Did Israeli officials make the right choice? I think you can argue this both ways, although I am *very* glad that Shalit is alive and well.
But to claim that this means that the Israelis had no concern for the victims of the Sbarro Pizza restaurant bombing is off base.