Terrorist who laughed about killing Israeli children
‘no longer subject to Interpol warrant’
March 14, 2021
Terrorist who laughed about killing Israeli children ‘no longer subject to Interpol warrant’
Ahlam al-Tamimi in Amman, Jordan, March 21, 2017. (AP/Omar Akour)
Tamimi was sentenced to 16 life sentences for murder, but was released
during the October 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner swap.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
Global police organization Interpol has reportedly dropped its arrest warrant for Ahlam Tamimi, the female terrorist behind one of the most notorious suicide bombings of the Second Intifada.
On Sunday, Arabic language media published a letter from the law enforcement agency, dated March 8, which stated that Tamimi is “no longer subject to Interpol notice.” The letter did not provide an explanation for the decision.
Tamimi’s image was also removed from the “Most Wanted” section of the Interpol site.
Her husband, Nizar Tamimi, confirmed the development in a Facebook post, writing “praise be to Allah.”
In August 2001, Tamimi assisted in the planning and execution of the Sbarro pizza restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem, which killed 15 people, including eight children and a pregnant woman, and wounded 130.
The Jordanian-born journalist scouted out the location for the attack and drove the perpetrator of the attack, Izz al-din Al Masri, through a checkpoint to the site of the bombing.
It’s widely believed that because she was a woman dressed in Western-style clothing, she deflected attention away from the bomber and helped him get past Israeli security officials who may have otherwise stopped him.
Tamimi was sentenced to 16 life sentences for her role in the murders, but was released during the October 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner swap.
In a chilling interview which took place while she was incarcerated, Tamimi expressed no regret for her crime. When an Israeli journalist asked if she knew how many children were killed in the bombing, she smiled and said, “Three.”
The journalist informed Tamimi that eight children had been killed. In response, she laughed and smiled widely.
One of Tamimi’s victims, 15-year-old Malki Roth, held American citizenship. Roth’s parents have lobbied the U.S. government for years to leverage a law which permits terrorists who murder American citizens abroad to be prosecuted and incarcerated in the U.S.
After Tamimi was released from prison, the FBI offered a $5 million reward for her capture and the Interpol arrest warrant was issued. In June 2020, the U.S. government issued an extradition request for Tamimi, but the Jordanian government has refused to honor it.
It sounds like someone in the Biden Admin pulled the strings on this. Someone sympathetic with Palestinian terrorists and not so with murdered Israeli children.
“I do not regret what happened. Absolutely not,” she told Jordanian news site Ammon in 2012.
“I dedicated myself to Jihad for the sake of Allah, and Allah granted me success. You know how many casualties there were? This was made possible by Allah. Do you want me to denounce what I did? That’s out of the question. I would do it again today, and in the same manner.”
Why not? You can only go to Hell once!
Daily Telegraph columnist apologises ‘unreservedly’ to Muslim writer for accusing her of Islamism and ‘paedophile worship’
16 Mar, 2021 15:44
(L) Julie Burchill ©️ Getty Images / Andrew Hasson; (R) Ash Sarkar ©️ Wikipedia
A columnist for the Daily Telegraph has apologised for accusing a Muslim journalist of supporting terrorism and paedophilia for worshipping the Prophet Muhammad, sparking a huge debate about racism in the British press.
On Tuesday Julie Burchill, a well-known writer for the conservative British broadsheet, issued an “unreserved” apology and agreed to pay “substantial damages” for defamatory tweets she sent on December 13, 2020.
In her apology, published on Twitter, Burchill admitted she had made “racist and misogynist” comments towards Ash Sarkar, a political activist and editor for left-wing news site Novara Media.
She made the comments after Sarkar appeared to take offence at an article by the columnist Rod Liddle in the Spectator, published in 2012. The column was about what stopped him from being a teacher and included the line: “I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids.”
After Sarkar’s outrage at Liddle’s comments about children Burchill accused her of paedophilia due to her religion, by saying: “Please remind me of the age of the Prophet Mohammad's first wife?”
In another tweet she added: “I don't WORSHIP a paedophile. If Aisha was nine, YOU do. Lecturer, lecture thyself!”
Burchill has now conceded that her own response to Sarkar relied on “Islamophobic tropes” after she accused the writer of supporting Islamist terrorism and “worshipping a paedophile,” referring to the Prophet Muhammad.
She also apologised for referring to Sarkar’s appearance and sex life, and for continuing to tweet about her after December 13.
“Although it was not my intention, I accept that my statements were defamatory of Ms Sarkar and caused her very substantial distress,” Burchill said in her statement.
“I was also wrong to have ‘liked’ other posts on Facebook and Twitter about her which were offensive, including one which called for her to kill herself, and another which speculated whether she had been a victim of FGM (female genital mutilation).”
Sarkar said Burchill’s posts and the abuse she received after the incident left her unable to sleep and that she was prescribed anti-anxiety medication.
“People speculated (on) whether I’m really a woman, really a Muslim, and I was subjected to rape threats and threats of physical violence,” Sarkar told the BBC.
On Tuesday a number of high-profile figures condemned Burchill’s remarks and came out in support of Sarkar, including Labour MPs, fellow journalists and others.
Among them were the black ex-footballer Stan Collymore, who accused the media of institutional racism and said Burchill’s “hate speech” would see black people “finished for life.”
Other users struck a more sympathetic tone, as they pointed out that Burchill had built her career on being offensive and that she was a skilled journalist.
Burchill has deleted her offending posts and has also agreed to pay Sarkar’s legal costs.
On Sunday the columnist said she had found a new publisher for her book, Welcome to the Woke Trials, which had been dropped by her initial publisher amid her comments in December.
Shamima Begum seen in Western clothes as she seeks
break with ISIS past
Tracked down by The Telegraph, the once London schoolgirl declined to be interviewed
but agreed to pose for photographs
By Campbell MacDiarmid,
MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT, Telegraph
ROJ CAMP, NORTHEAST SYRIA
14 March 2021 • 8:00pm
Shamima Begum stands out from the crowd in the camp for Islamic State supporters and their relatives in northeast Syria.
With her straightened hair and Western clothing, Ms Begum today looks nothing like the niqab-clad teen who became the poster child for Britain’s so-called “Isil brides” after running away from her Bethnal Green school to marry a jihadi in Syria in Feb 2015.
Ms Begum, who was wearing trendy sunglasses and a striped T-shirt, shook hands with The Telegraph on Sunday but politely declined to be interviewed, due to legal advice.
Chatting with her friends by a row of concrete shops, the group’s hoop earrings contrasted sharply with the head scarfs and modest Islamic dress of most of the women in the bleak detention centre.
By the time Ms Begum was discovered in another squalid detention camp for Islamic State supporters in Feb 2019, she was a widow mourning the death of her two children after fleeing the final fighting that marked the collapse of the group’s caliphate.
Since then her third child has died and the Government has stripped her citizenship on national security grounds, citing her as a threat to public safety.
Now 21, Ms Begum has languished in Roj for two years while her lawyers challenge the decision to revoke her citizenship. During this time her appearance has gradually changed as she first abandoned the black full length gown and later stopped wearing headscarves.
Today she looks more suited to a shopping trip on Oxford Street than life in a camp for hardened jihadists.
But knowing what Ms Begum thinks has become more difficult since she has stopped speaking to journalists following the frenzied media attention after her early interviews.
Ms Begum has been held in Syria for two years CREDIT: Sam Tarling
Initially Ms Begum said she had no regrets about joining Islamic State, though she later said that she had spoken while in shock and out of fear of retribution.
On Sunday she greeted The Telegraph with a handshake and a weary refusal to speak on record, though she did consent to be photographed.
Ms Begum’s case has become emblematic of the fate of several dozen British women living in Roj camp, many of whom have also had their citizenship revoked, and many of whom have children.
Eight other British women declined interviews with The Telegraph on Sunday, several citing legal advice. All were polite, with one woman saying “thanks for coming all this way”.
Another woman said her son urgently needed to return home to seek medical care that was not available in the camp.
“We hope to go back home soon,” one said.
Camp manager Nora Abdo said the British women in Roj routinely decline media requests on advice from their lawyers. They are well-behaved and cause no problems at the camp, she added.
Women in the camp now exist on a spectrum from those who remained committed Islamic State ideologues and those who have totally rejected the ideology, but Ms Abdo said the general trend was towards a rejection of the group.
“We’ve noticed the change in their clothing,” she said. “They want to come home. They say they’re ready to pay the punishment for their crimes. Some are thinking about the future for their kids.”
An academic who speaks regularly with Islamic State members and the women in the camps said that a woman forgoing the veil was a genuine sign that she no longer supported the group.
I'm inclined to believe that the madness of radical Islam would prevent a woman from pretending that she has rejected jihad. As for Shamima, I suspect she wants nothing more than to regain the experience of youth that she gave up for the insanity of ISIS.
Give her the opportunity to denounce ISIS, radical Islam, and jihad and see if she can do it.
“I don’t think it’s a strategy, a woman who is pro-ISIS wouldn’t take it off to get repatriated,” said Vera Mironova, who is a research fellow at Harvard University.
Removing the veil comes at a cost, Ms Mironova said, as committed Islamic State supporters in the camp have better access to money and other contraband such as mobile phones through their networks.
Western women in the camp often have less access to money, Ms Mironova said, due to the threat of Western governments using anti-terror legislation to prosecute families who send funds to relatives in the camp.
One European woman in the camp told The Telegraph that after earlier removing her veil, she had taken to wearing it again to curry favour with the camp’s Islamic State supporters, who remain well-connected.
But Ms Begum and her group of friends – whose nationalities include Canadian, American, French and German – had nothing to do with the Islamic State supporters, the woman said.
“Some people are still Daesh groupies,” the woman said, using another name for IS. “But I don’t think they’re dangerous, and they’re very few. People are tired and most have changed.”
Camp administrators say the 2,618 people living in Roj are more secure and better provisioned than the 62,000 people living in the sprawling Al-Hol camp, where a string of murders have been reported in recent months.
“There are no tent burnings or violence here,” said Ms Abdo, the manager.
Both Roj and Al-Hol are run by a Western-backed militia in a corner of Syria somewhat removed from the fighting that has destroyed much of the rest of the country in the past decade.
But during an Oct 2019 Turkish-backed military offensive against the Kurdish-led militia, an estimated 750 IS-affiliated women and their children were reported to have escaped from another camp at Ain Issa. Some women in Roj camp now say they pray that similar fighting nearby could offer them a chance to escape.
But Ms Abdo, the manager, said her biggest concern was the children growing up in the camp abandoned by their governments.
“When they grow up they will hate their homeland, and this will have consequences,” she said.
“This should not be their life. What about their future?”
Al-Hol Camp, Syria
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