Jordan announced on Monday its rejection of the US request to extradite terrorist Ahlam Atamimi, who was involved in the suicide terror attack on a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001 during which 16 were murdered, including 2 Americans. In 2003, Atamimi was sentenced to sixteen years in prison, but was released in the "Shalit deal" in 2011, and soon left Israel for Jordan. After her release, Atamimi said, "It was a calculated act, performed with conviction and faith in Allah. Jihad warriors are always ready to die as martyrs, to be arrested - or to succeed. I managed to overcome the barrier of prison and was released. Why should I repent?" She also said that "given the opportunity, she would do it again." Atamimi was the first woman to join Hamas , and was recently placed on the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorist" list.
