The king's visit and a message to VP Pence

From the Jordan Times website

For some reason, the media in US are (at least until the moment I am writing this) avoiding this news item - the current visit of Jordan's King Abdullah II to Washington. Which is odd in itself.

Odder yet is the BFF relationship that the current US administration maintains with the Jordanian king. 

He is touted ad nauseum by US officials as a loyal partner in the fight against terrorism. His current visit with US dignitaries is about his sixth or seventh since the start of the Trump presidency.

And all the while he harbors a terrorist mass murderer in his capital, Amman.

Ahlam Tamimi, who perpetrated and boasts of the Sbarro pizzeria bombing in central Jerusalem on August 9, 2001 has lived on Jordanian soil since 2011 when she was freed from Israeli prison in the Shalit Deal. She had been sentenced to 16 life terms. Now she is an acclaimed public speaker, TV talk show host and inciter to terrorism.

Among her fifteen innocent victims were eight children, one of whom was my precious 15 year old daughter, Malki. She along with 2 other victims was a US citizen.

From the blog I co-write with my husband

Two years ago, on March 14, 2017, the US Department of Justice announced federal charges against her.

It demanded of Jordan that she be extradited to stand trial in the US. Since then, the King's regime has refused to comply with the signed 1995 extradition treaty between the two countries.

This, notwithstanding its past extradition to the US of several fugitives under that same treaty which it now insists is invalid.

We implore US dignitaries, particularly VP Pence who will welcome the King in a few hours, to call him out on this outrage.

It is no secret that the king's power is gravely threatened internally and is sustained by lavish US support, both financial and diplomatic.

We implore Vice President Pence to cease the hypocrisy of this so-called "strategic partnership". Insist on the extradition of terrorist mass murderer Tamimi - or stop propping up this royal dictator.