A week from today, on March 14, 2022, five years will have passed since the day Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al Tamimi—commonly known as Ahlam Tamimi—became a fugitive from U.S. justice. Much of what we have experienced and learned in that time has gotten no media attention.

In a massive August 9, 2001 bombing attack on a bustling Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, 15 were murdered and 130 injured. Most of the victims were children. Tamimi later called it “my operation.”

The blast took the life of our daughter, Malki, a sunny 15-year-old who was a U.S. national. Another of those killed, a young American visiting Jerusalem as a tourist, was pregnant with her first child. A young mother, also an American, remains unconscious all these years; she is not counted in the death toll.

Five years ago, senior U.S. Department of Justice officials announced the unsealing of federal terrorism charges against Tamimi, a Jordanian. That day her name was added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List and the U.S. formally asked Jordan to extradite her to Washington.

Tamimi lives today in Jordan. Free and unrestricted in her activities, her role in the Sbarro massacre has made her an icon. She appears frequently on television in Jordan and beyond, in the press and throughout the Arab world’s social media.

In the years since Tamimi was formally charged in Washington, we have repeatedly pressed U.S. officials to insist Jordan respects its extradition treaty obligation. All our efforts have failed. But as we keep working at this, our intention is not to let the bitter anniversary pass without our voices being heard. Our message to the government of the United States and the Biden administration is the same as our requests to the Obama and Trump administrations: Pursue justice. Demand that Jordan extradite the Sbarro monster as the treaty requires. And if you decline or are unable, explain publicly in what ways your efforts are blocked.