Ahlam Tamimi
Ahlam Tamimi (Arabic: أحلام التميمي) is a Jordanian national known for assistance in carrying out the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing. She was convicted by Israel and received multiple life sentences but was released as part of a prisoner exchange. She hosts a television show about Palestinians in Israeli prisons. She is currently on the FBI's most wanted list. Her aliases include Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, Ahlam Arafat Mazin Al Tamimi,, Halati and Khalti, and the FBI has reported her name as Ahlam Ahmad Al-Tamimi.
Tamimi was a journalism student at Birzeit University. Her brother Mohamed, speculates that her fluency in English and the fact that she did not wear a headscarf made her less suspicious to Israeli officials.
Tamimi originates from Nabi Salih. Ben Ehrenreich of The New York Times said that she was "much-loved in Nabi Saleh."
After driving and dropping off the suicide bomber at his target, she reported on the bombing on a Palestinian news channel.
Tamimi had placed an explosive device at a grocery store in Jerusalem in July 2001. The device exploded but did not cause damage.
Tamimi participated in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing, which caused 145 casualties, including 15 fatalities, half of them children. She was 20 years old at the time, and still in university.
On 9 August 2001, Tamimi escorted suicide bomber Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri (Arabic: عز الدين شهيل المصري) to the Sbarro restaurant. She used disguise techniques to deflect attention from herself and al-Masri, wearing a dress that made her appear more like a "Jewish tourist" than an Arab, and using language skills gained in her journalism studies. While al-Masri died in the attack as intended, Tamimi left the area before the detonation.
She then had a second role reporting on the attack in the press, in her part-time journalism job.
In an interview which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on 12 July 2012 (as translated by MEMRI), Tamimi described the reaction of other Palestinians immediately after the bombing:
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