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While dozens have been called in for interrogation or arrested in Jordan in a massive investigation to capture whoever attacked the U.S. diplomat in Amman, this older story of a U.S. diplomat killing a Jordanian citizen went unheeded.

On April 20, 2000, a Jordanian citizen by the name of Asa'd Khalil Issa Alramahy, 65 years, was hit by a car as he was traversing the street on the crossing area. The driver who hit him was a staff member of the American Embassy in Amman that goes by the name of Chris "Carty" Carter.

Instead of taking his victim to the hospital to get critically needed medical care, Mr. Carter left his victim unconscious on the roadside after placing his business card on the victim's chest!

And when he was taken to the hospital by some passers by, the Doctors found that Mr. Alramahy was suffering from fractures in the skull, brain damage, and internal bleeding in the brain. Since then, Mr. Alramahy has died of the injuries he sustained in the accident. He was at first hospitalized at the private "Arab Center" until June 8, 2000, and then was moved to the public Albashir Hospital without notification to his family.

The attending Doctor at Albashir Hospital said that the Hospital lacked the appropriate means for providing the required treatment to Alramahy.

Hence, he was moved, the same day, to Alhayat Hospital. Being unable to sustain the high cost of treatment, Alramahy's family took him home where he remaind unconscious until he died later on in February 2002.

The total value of the medical treatment at the "Arab Center" was 20,000 JD's. In addition to that, the bill at "Alhayat" was 30,000 JD's.

The insurance company refused to cover the bills because the driver is a foreign diplomat and exempted by the law.

The case, which was registered against the offender at Wadi Al-sir Police Center, was not pursued.

In a letter to the Arab Organization of human rights, the American embassy in Amman said that they understood that the Diplomat "had satisfied his obligations under local laws and customs".

The Chairman of the Arab Organization for Human Rights told Al Ramahy's family that they could sue the offender in his native country, through the Jordanian Foreign Ministry (JFM).

Al Ramahy's relatives had approached the JFM several times, but to no avail. In fact, they were pressured several times by "unnamed sources" to say that Al Ramahy had died as a result of "falling down as he was crossing the street", in exchange for payment of all hospital bills, but they refused.

Until the time of Al Ramahy's death, the U.S. diplomat who killed him was still working in the American Embassy in Amman.

Several lawyers who were approached to sue in American courts backed out.

And as Al Ramahy's family are still attempting to sue the offender through a legal Agency in the U.S., they want to know, why their rights of citizenship are not protected by the law, at least in the way of compensation for medical bills?!

One last note: We advise our readers that, contrary to the claims of the U.S. Embassy in Amman, killing a person and leaving your business card on him or her is NOT part of any Arab or Jordanian customs. But it may be customary in the segments of U.S. society from which the U.S. administration gets inspiration for its policies.

See the full story in Arabic, including photocopies of documents and pictures, at the following link: http://www.freearabvoice.org/arabi/zawiyatuLKurra_i/alRamahy.jpg

The Free Arab Voice