Trump Administration Sides With Sudan Against USS Cole Survivors In Lawsuit
Trump Administration Sides With Sudan Against USS Cole Survivors In Lawsuit
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665407297/trump-administration-sides-with-sudan-against-uss-cole-survivors-in-lawsuit
Eighteen years ago, Lorrie Triplett's husband, Ensign Andrew Triplett, rode off on his bike to board the destroyer U.S.S. Cole, heading for the Persian Gulf. It was the last time she would see him. On Wednesday, she sat in the U.S. Supreme Court and she "really wanted to scream."
Her husband was among 17 killed in 2000 when al-Qaida suicide bombers in a small boat attacked the Cole while it was refueling in a harbor in Yemen. Forty-two more men and women were injured. They and the families of the dead sued the government of Sudan for allegedly providing material support for the attack.
Their path for this and similar suits has been long and difficult, and now, to the consternation of the victims and veterans groups, the Trump administration is siding with Sudan, long designated a state sponsor of terrorism and now on the Trump travel ban list.
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The argument is that to allow such notifications to be made at an embassy would breach the "inviolability" of embassies and consulates that is guaranteed under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
The Trump administration argues as well that if Sudan and other countries can be served notice of lawsuits at embassies, the U.S. could suffer a similar fate at its embassies.
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Basically trump is scared that victims in Yemen and around the world will deliver lawsuits to our embassies when they find out the weapons were made by us.
