Insurers sue Saudi Arabia seeking 9/11 reimbursements

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A subsidiary of the British insurer Lloyd's of London Thursday sued the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, several of its government agencies and banks, and a handful of prominent individuals in U.S. District Court in Johnstown, saying they are liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Lloyd's Syndicate 3500 and affiliates paid out $215 million in insurance claims stemming from the attacks, according to the complaint. They want the money back.

The 154-page complaint summarizes scholarship on the roots of the al-Qaida organization, focusing on the financing it used to build a global network capable of carrying out actions.

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U.S. investigators, it said, unearthed a list of al-Qaida's financial backers known as the "Golden Chain."





Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11252/1173372-100.stm

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The complaint: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pdf/201109/20110909pdf_underwriters-v-saudi.pdf

Be interesting if this goes to trial.

[teddy51]

1. It would probably get settled out of court to avoid damning information

from getting out, I would suspect.

[KansDem]

2. So, Lloyd's believes Saudi Arabia is responsible for the 9/11 attacks?

Why did we invade Iraq, then?

Why are we not bombing the hell of Saudi Arabia?

Bush and Cheney and the Saudis need to be arrested and tried for murder...

[onethatcares]

4. I'm wondering the same thing,

the hijackers were 9 Saudis, 1 Egyptian, 2 UAE citizens, 1 Lebanese. So we spend 1 trillion dollars invading a country that had nothing to do with it and expand that to another country and spend another gazillion dollars and then we begin attacking Pakistan and we're supposed to believe it's all related to 9/11/2001. Meanwhile, we've pissed off the next 3 generations of Arabian men by killing their families.



Now that the 9/11 palooza is upon us, no one remembers Sybil Edmonds or Lt. Col Karen Kwaitowski.

[AntiFascist]

17. Terrorists were originally a threat to the Saudi Royals....

one explanation has it that Al Qaeda was funded in order to shift the attention away from the House of Saud toward America as a target. Recall too that Saddam was a threat to Kuwait.

[Dokkie]

3. Lets hope the

Afghanis, Iraqis, Pakistanis, Yemenese and Libyans dont start filling their lawsuit against the US. What is the value of millions of innocent deaths in the wars the US started?

[blue neen]

5. That's really interesting.

I hope the Post Gazette stays on the story.

[aquart]

6. What a delightful anniversary gift.

Litigation.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, RamboLiberal.

[The Doctor.]

8. Chicken feed. Now, should the Swiss Re company decide to seek compensation,

THAT could get interesting.

[Gin]

10. very interesting....just seeing the names of the defendants is a

new twist....the Saudis are untouchables.

[corpseratemedia]

19. maybe a co-owner of FOX news?

just wondering!

[defendandprotect]

26. Investigating 9/11/False Flag isn't just about money .... FOLLOW THE MONEY ...!

A subsidiary of the British insurer Lloyd's of London Thursday sued the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, several of its government agencies and banks, and a handful of prominent individuals in U.S. District Court in Johnstown, saying they are liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

[whosinpower]

9. Does anyone remember the story

About someone shorting the airlines - and I think JP Morgan Chase too, the very day of the attack....and supposedly, investigators were going to get to the bottom of it.....and the story evaporated....

Now we know who it went to - and why it was clammed up. (Bush wanted to go to Iraq - certainly not invade his beloved Saudi's)

There was allot of talk back then that it was the Saudi's all along....and those guys were called conspiracy nutcases.

Read the PDF - it names who is in the "Golden Chain".

Ohhhhhh - I did not think my level of disgust for Bush and the GOP could go up any further....and there it went.

[comtec]

12. I remember quite CLEARLY open talk of impeachment before 9-11

Doesn't anyone else remember that?
the anthrax attacks?
the complete ineptitude of the government such that even FOX was saying maybe November was a mistake?

am I alone in my recollection?

[The Doctor.]

15. Hundreds of times the average number of 'puts' were placed on

UAL, and AA in the days before the attacks. There is virtually no doubt that someone knew about the attacks. If I were bin Laden, I'd have given my Wahhabi buddies some 'insider trading' tips. Funny thing is, the SEC went into full discovery mode and then suddenly clammed the hell up with a 'nothing to see here' sign on the door.

At some point, a thinking person has to realize they're standing in the middle of a fish market.

[defendandprotect]

27. The "put options" were a CIA deal but don't think anyone ever picked up the money --- ????

[comtec]

11. In the UK... they just might

Believe it or not they're not as broken as we are here... system wise.
I imagine it will goto court, just dunno where it'll go form there.
i DO imagine there will be some ... unfortunate deaths however.

[Bluenorthwest]

14. This case is in the US courts, not UK

and they will win.

[marasinghe]

13. shouldn't they be adding the guys who set up al-Q in the first place, to the list of the sued.

old uncle raygun; walker bush, texas carpetbagger; the CIA spooks; and all.

[Devil_Fish]

16. K&R for your post.

[defendandprotect]

28. +1 -- Brezinski is clear on that -- we funded Taliban/Al Qaeda via ISI-Pakistan up to 9/11 ...

and maybe beyond - who knows?

[hootinholler]

18. Johnstown Pa., an interesting choice of venue

Must be some connection to Shanksville that allows that choice.

-Hoot

[RamboLiberal]

21. yep federal district court Johnstown covers Shanksville

[sarcasmo]

20. I always figured we attacked the wrong country, now Lloyd's proves to me that I was right.

[yurbud]

30. if the mafia did a contract killing, would you go after the hitman's landlord or his boss?

Afghanistan was essentially the landlord, and the boss was Saudi directly and via Pakistan.

The question that is still open is whether they did this on the orders of the Bushies or for some agenda of their own.

[Downwinder]

22. I thought the sitting President declared it an act of war

and the Tax payers assumed liability.

[yurbud]

23. so is the oldest and most prestigious insurer cranks and conspiracy theorists?

or will anyone admit that there is substance to these accusations?

[wildbilln864]

24. k & friggin r! nt

[defendandprotect]

25. Did airlines ever RECOVER insurance costs for loss of 4 PLANES ... ????

Wonder who the insurers were and if there are any records on that -- ???



American Airlines actually has said there was no flight #11 on 9/11!!

[yurbud]

29. kick