Intel: Trump administration threatens to withhold aid over Jordan’s refusal to extradite convicted terrorist

The Donald Trump administration is considering withholding military and economic assistance to aid-dependent Jordan over its continued refusal to extradite a convicted terrorist who helped kill 15 people in a 2001 bomb attack in Israel.
Jordanian freed prisoner Ahlam Tamimi speaks to reporters upon her arrival at Queen Alia international airport in Amman, late October 18, 2011. Ahlam was sentenced to 16 life terms in jail for her involvement in attacks on the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem in August 2001. The Palestinian Hamas movement exchanged Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who spent more than five years of isolation in a Gaza hide-out, for hundreds of Palestinian militants being held in Israeli jails. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo
Ahlam Tamimi speaks to reporters upon her arrival at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 18, 2011, after being released by Israel as part of a prisoner exchange with Hamas. She had been sentenced to life for her role in a 2001 bombing that killed 15 people, including two Americans, in a pizzeria in Israel. - LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images
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The Donald Trump administration is considering withholding military and economic assistance to aid-dependent Jordan over its continued refusal to extradite a convicted terrorist who helped kill 15 people in a 2001 bomb attack in Israel, The Associated Press reported today.  

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Maghreb and Egypt Henry Wooster implied that aid cuts could be on the table in written responses to the Senate as part of his confirmation process to serve as the next US ambassador to Jordan.

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