Arnold Roth, whose 15-year-old daughter Malki was murdered in the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem, is intensifying his public criticism of Jordan for sheltering Ahlam Tamimi, the woman who planned the attack that killed 16 people and injured more than 130.
Tamimi, who scouted the target and facilitated the suicide bombing on August 9, 2001, has lived freely in Jordan since her release in October 2011. She was part of a prisoner exchange that secured the return of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
A convicted terrorist living in plain sight
The Sbarro bombing remains one of the deadliest terror attacks of the Second Intifada. Among the 16 killed were seven children and a pregnant woman. Three of the victims were American citizens.
Tamimi served roughly eight years of a life sentence in an Israeli prison before her release. During that time, in a 2006 documentary called “Hot House,” Israeli director Shimon Dotan informed Tamimi that eight children had been killed in the attack.
