A group of House Republicans have lost patience with Jordan for its refusal to extradite Ahlam al-Tamimi, a Jordanian woman who helped kill 15 people, including two Americans, in a 2001 bomb attack on a Sbarro pizzeria in Israel. The seven conservative lawmakers are now turning to a law they passed in December that could eliminate Jordan’s $1.5 billion in American economic and military aid unless Amman turns Tamimi in to face the US criminal justice system.
Rep. Gregory Steube, R-Fla., and six of his House Republican colleagues pressed the issue last month in a letter to Jordan’s envoy to Washington, Dina Kawar.
