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PA TV host expresses "respect and love" for planner of suicide bombing that killed 15

PA TV host: "We send greetings to the released female prisoner Ahlam Tamimi and to all the female prisoners who were released. I focus here on Ahlam because Ahlam chose a way that increases the respect and love I feel for her. I send greetings to you, dear Ahlam, and to your husband Nizar. Ahlam chose the way of media (i.e., as a journalist), and now hosts a program for prisoners."
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Note: Ahlam Tamimi led a suicide bomber to the Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem on Aug. 9, 2001. 15 people were murdered in the attack, 7 of them children, and 130 were injured. In October 2011, Tamimi was released from Israeli prison as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas.
The PA TV host greeted terrorist Ahlam Tamimi while interviewing another terrorst, Qahira Al-Sa'adi, who drove a suicide bomber to an attack in Jerusalem on March 21, 2002, in which 3 were killed and 80 were injured. She was also released in October 2011 as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas.


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