Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi

Charged: March 14, 2017
Affiliation
Hamas
State
District of Columbia
Sting
No
Involves Informant
No
Charges
  • Use, threats, or attempts to use weapons of mass destruction
FISA Notification
No
Fugitive
Details
Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi
  • Age
    Unknown
  • Gender
    Female
  • Race
    Unknown
Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, also known as “Khalti” and “Halati,” a Jordanian national, participated in a 2001 suicide bomb attack at a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, including two U.S. citizens. Al-Tamimi, who was living in the West Bank at the time, met the suicide bomber in Ramallah and traveled with him to downtown Jerusalem. She pleaded guilty to her part of the bombing in an Israeli court and was sentenced to 16 life sentences. However, she was released and returned to Jordan in 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. She remains in Jordan, where the courts have ruled that the constitution forbids the extradition of Jordanian citizens.