Saudi Arabia Ordered to Face Claims Over Sept. 11 Attacks

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

Lawsuits claiming Saudi Arabia aided al-Qaeda and should be held liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were revived by a U.S. appeals court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan today said a lower-court judge “rested on an error of law” in rejecting a request to reopen the cases against the country’s government and an affiliated charity.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina won a ruling dismissing them from the lawsuits on the grounds that a foreign government is immune from suit. Subsequently, the appeals court made inconsistent rulings on whether the terrorism claims made in the case fall under sovereign-immunity rule, according to today’s opinion.

The lower-court judge should have granted a request to re-open the cases in order to allow the inconsistency to be addressed, the appeals court said.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-19/saudi-arabia-ordered-to-face-claims-over-sept-11-attacks.html

[Boomerproud]

1. The more we know

The closer the victims and their families will get to justice.

[raccoon]

26. When will there be justice for the civilians killed by American drones? nt

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Shrubs buds .

[Berlum]

9. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL Bush (R) & Intimate Saudi Oil Cronies (R)

Freakin Republicons and their Oil Cronies. Ptoooey.

[UpInArms]

14. + 100%

[Evasporque]

27. Whistle-Ass

how about that oldie but goodie.

[warrant46]

28. The Chimp Again

2 Prostitutes to the OIL Guys

[Coyotl]

11. Reagan's Iran-Contra co-conspirators!

The Schrub just inherited the connections from Daddy's Boss, Saint Ronaldus.

[okaawhatever]

24. I think Daddy had better connections than Ronnie. He worked with the CIA, OIL and is from TX. nt

[orpupilofnature57]

36. He OWNED the CIA .

[Jerry442]

3. If we get an actual ongoing lawsuit against the Saudis with discovery and everything...

...I'm going to be forced to reexamine some of my long-held beliefs about the existence of Santa Claus.

[Purveyor]

7. Me too... eom

[Liberalynn]

16. +1

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. There goes the pretense of Iraq being at fault.

They should sue US.

[Purveyor]

8. Someday, if the country of Iraq ever stabilizes enough to be a player on the world stage. eom

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Question.

There were one to three million dollar payments to each victim's survivors. Wasn't that payment meant to end litigation? Or was that just limited to the U.S. government?

[Th1onein]

12. If they accepted the money, it came with the agreement not to file suit.

[Ace Acme]

13. The amounts paid from the Victims Compensation Fund were predicated on the future earning power

of the lost loved one, so they varied from case to case.

Those who accepted a payment had to sign an agreement that they would not sure the airlines. I don't know if there were any other restrictions on lawsuits.

Some people refused to accept any payment, and thus gave up no rights to sue.

[wildbilln864]

6. like they'll admit it now.

[peoli]

10. WOW! n/t

[DeSwiss]

15. Whoops!

- Well they've still got the fall-guy. And he's implicated himself many, many times......

K&R

[RC]

18. Actually, the pictured was just the front man.

He is too dumb to pull much of anything off.
Cheney and Rumsfeld are a couple of the master minds that need to be with that guy though.


On edit, yeah, fall guy. I gotta learn to read or something.

[DeSwiss]

19. Which is why he's referred to as ''the fall guy.''

- Whose primary qualification and the minimum standard is to have a pulse.

on edit: We both do.

[mitty14u2]

35. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld war criminals verdict Enforcement Phase begins

Despite 'UN corruption,' Nuremberg Charter makes Malaysian Tribunal convicting Bush and other heads of state guilty of war crimes official May 15, 2012

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, based on the Nuremberg Charter, is proceeding to the enforcement phase after officially convicting George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and lawyers of war crimes in a packed court Friday where legal experts heard shocking testimonies of American torture inflicted by United States soldiers such as removing fingernails with pliers, electrocutions and sexual humiliation.

http://www.examiner.com/article/bush-cheney-rumsfeld-war-criminals-verdict-enforcement-phase-begins

[2banon]

17. seems like this should be BIG NEWS... so far I'm not hearing anything about this on

National Propaganda Radio .. wonder if it will be reported on Propaganda Broadcasting Service the Gwen and Judy "news hour" show.. hmm...

[whatchamacallit]

20. The current administration won't let this get very far

trust me

[valerief]

21. You mean the CIA, the REAL administration. nt

[whatchamacallit]

22. More or less

[TwilightGardener]

23. I feel pretty certain this will go nowhere, but it's interesting nonetheless.

[libodem]

25. About time!

[Enthusiast]

29. Saudi Arabia pulled off 911 so Shrubby attacked Iraq.

I get it.

But Saudi Arabia didn't do it alone. It was a false flag operation all the way.

[Kingofalldems]

30. Bush strolled down lover's lane holding hands with a Saudi prince

[mockmonkey]

31. I wonder

If they are going to dust off James Baker and have him represent the Saudi's again.

[Jesus Malverde]

32. bump... nt

[Indi Guy]

33. Seems like someone(s) in power here in the US have an interest in further destabilizing the Mideast

eom

[TwilightGardener]

34. Why do you say that? You think someone is trying to stir new shit with SA?

[Indi Guy]

37. I've been noticing that...

...a number of stories have "leaked" out recently that put SA in a bad light. Often this kind of thing is a precursor to a larger scale ramping up of rhetoric -- which often results in direct action (overt and/or covert). And as we all know, certain elements in our government are motivated to stir things up in foreign lands, independent of any perceivable benefit to our national interests.