Happy To Have Murdered Them: Palestinian Terrorism Planner Talks About What She Did
15 people were murdered in the bombing of a Sbarro in Israel in 2011. Ahlam Tamimi, a female Jordanian Terrorist helped plan the attack:
From YouTube:
In October 2011, Ahlam Tamimi, a female Jordanian Terrorist helped plan and assist in a horrific 2001 suicide bombing in Israel, was released from an Israeli jail as part of the Palestinian prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.Tamimi had been serving 16 life sentences for her role in the August 9, 2001 suicide bombing of Sbarro's pizzeria in Jerusalem, a suicide bombing that killed 15 Israelis and wounded over 130 others. Among the murdered victims were eight children, a pregnant woman and another woman who was left in a permanent coma.
At the time of the killing, Tamimi was a 20-year-old Jordanian national who lived in Ramallah, studied at Birzeit University, and worked as a television journalist. She was also the first woman to have been recruited by Hamas' Izzadine el-Qassam, the military wing of Hamas that launched 138 suicide attacks against Israeli military and civilian targets during the al-Aqsa Intifada from 2000-2004, killing over 1,064 Israelis and wounding 7,462 others.
While Tamimi's most visible role in the Sbarro operation was to transport the suicide bomber to the target, in reality she was intimately involved in its entire planning, including intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, and target selection.
Needless to say, Tamimi -- whose fellow co-conspirator in the Sbarro bombing, Mohammad Daghlas, was also released as part of the prisoner swap -- was ecstatic about her good fortune, declaring upon her release:
It's a brilliant move of the Hamas negotiators to include my name in the swap deal although the Israeli military Courts recommended not to include my name in any prisoners swap in the future.If anyone had entertained the idea that Tamimi's ten years in prison may have engendered in her a feeling of remorse about her viscous actions, those ideas were quickly disabused in a television interview she gave in Jordan on October 19, 2011.
When asked by the interviewer if "she would carry out the attack today," Tamimi defiantly responded:
"Of course, I do not regret what happened. Absolutely not. This is the path. I dedicated myself to Jihad for the sake of Allah, and Allah granted me success. You know how many casualties there were [in the 2001 attack on the Sbarro pizzeria]? 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.The manner by which Tamimi carried out the attack on Sbarro's was both chilling in its details and terrifying in its effects.
As part of her intelligence gathering, Tamimi had picked Sbarro's precisely because it was unguarded and would be filled with patrons, most of whom were children and young mothers.
Apparently, Tamimi's choice satisfied Ezziddin Al-Masri, the operation's suicide bomber. In a later interview after her arrest, Tamimi said the only question he had asked her was: "Will there be religious Jews there?" which she answered in the affirmative."
via @LegalInsurrection
Hope she's a 'dead woman walking' since she desires to be a shining example for others.
Waiting to hear a global denouncement from Islamic leaders (if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there ...)
Bob in Texas at August 3, 2015 9:30 AM
Were I running a country and terrorist demanded the release of people I'd have em lined up on an air strip, shot, covered in pigs blood, and then dropped from a plane into the country asking for them back.
lujlp at August 3, 2015 10:34 AM
New frontiers in gender equality.
The Usaian at August 3, 2015 10:51 AM
What's her name?
*scribbles*
I have a Hellfire missile with your name on it, missy. I hope the headline reads:
Tamimi killed by boredom, Hellfire missile, but mostly by Hellfire missile
I R A Darth Aggie at August 3, 2015 11:57 AM
From the article: Among the murdered victims were eight children, a pregnant woman and another woman who was left in a permanent coma.
This makes no sense. Was the last victim a permanently comatose woman who happened to be at Sbarro's Pizzeria and was murdered in the attack? If so, what was a comatose patient doing at a pizzeria in the first place?
Aside from bad grammar, I don't think killing Tamimi would serve as much of an example. She would be considered a martyr. Moreover, she's just one person, who took out fifteen people (including a permanently comatose woman, though God knows why someone would bring a comatose patient to a pizzeria). From the jihadists' perspective, that's pretty efficient. They lose one. We lose fifteen.
Patrick at August 3, 2015 12:26 PM
Patrick: "...I don't think killing Tamimi would serve as much of an example."
Probably not. But she'd be dead.
What does Allah give to female martyrs? The standard 72 virgins? Would hers be boys?
Ken R at August 3, 2015 2:40 PM
Ken R: What does Allah give to female martyrs? The standard 72 virgins? Would hers be boys?
From what I gather of Islam and their views on women, the imams are probably preaching that she'll have her hymen restored and she'll get to be one of the 72 virgins. (Doesn't that just sound thrilling?)
Patrick at August 3, 2015 6:59 PM
War is messed up. Apparently the guy who dropped the H-bomb went to his death with no regrets.
NicoleK at August 4, 2015 5:04 AM
@ Nicolek:
Look at the fire-bombings of the cities that we did as well as our lives lost taking islands no one cared about.
Horrendous numbers, horrible deaths, and absolutely no backing down from "We will not stop until you are dead or in your proper place.".
I believe (but have verified) that less lives on all sides were lost w/the Bombs than were lost before the Bombs.
Just as today w/Islam, religious believers then truly believed their God told them to fight to the death and so they would. No surrender.
I mean really think about it.
How do you use the fighting bodies you have available to stop a foe that does not want, or believes he should, to stop.
The fire bombings were awful. The island fighting was awful.
Bob in Texas at August 4, 2015 5:46 AM
"I believe (but have NOT verified) that less lives on all sides were lost w/the Bombs than were lost before the Bombs."
Oops.
Bob in Texas at August 4, 2015 5:48 AM
"The bombs" also cause less structural and property damage than the conventional bombing that preceded them
lujlp at August 4, 2015 2:46 PM
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