Jordan Refuses to Extradite Palestinian Terrorist Who Killed Americans

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Jordan Refuses to Extradite Palestinian Terrorist Who Killed Americans

by TheTower.org Staff | 03.16.17 4:12 pm

The kingdom of Jordan has rejected the United States’ request to extradite a Palestinian terrorist who was involved in a 2001 Jerusalem suicide bombing that killed two American citizens, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday, citing Jordanian media.

The U.S. Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint on Tuesday against Ahlam Tamimi, who currently resides in Jordan, for “conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. nationals outside the U.S., resulting in death.”

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Tamimi was arrested by Israel and sentenced in 2003 to 16 consecutive life sentences and 15 additional years in prison, but was one of the more than one thousand Palestinian terrorists released in a 2011 prisoner exchange to free Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas in 2006.

According to the Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad, Jordanian authorities said that her extradition was “not permissible” since Jordan does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S., and because she was already tried in Israel.