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AJC calls on Justice Department to pursue Ahlam Tamimi extradition
The letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland comes ahead of the 10th anniversary of Tamimi’s indictment for her role in 2001 Sbarro bombing
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Israeli medics and volunteers treat the injured at the site of a Palestinian suicide bombing August 9, 2001, in Jerusalem, Israel.
The American Jewish Committee is for the first time publicly calling on the Justice Department “to exert every effort” to push Jordan to extradite Ahlam Tamimi, a Palestinian terrorist convicted in an Israeli court for her role in the...