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The Justice Department, in a brief filed Friday before the Supreme Court, said it did not believe the Saudis could be sued in American court over accusations brought by families of the Sept. 11 victims that the royal family had helped finance Al Qaeda. The department said it saw no need for the court to review lower court rulings that found in the Saudis’ favor in throwing out the lawsuit
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But family members of several Sept. 11 victims said they were deeply disappointed and questioned whether the decision was made to appease an important ally in the Middle East. The Saudis have aggressively lobbied both the Bush and Obama administrations to have the lawsuit dismissed, government officials say.
“I find this reprehensible,” said Kristen Breitweiser, a leader of the Sept. 11 families, whose husband was killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. “One would have hoped that the Obama administration would have taken a different stance than the Bush administration, and you wonder what message this sends to victims of terrorism around the world.”
Hmmm
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Their complaint alleges that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi High Commission for Relief to Bosnia and Herzegovina (SHC), and four Saudi Princes (acting in both official and personal capacities) made donations to charitable organizations with the knowledge that those organizations were diverting funds to al Qaeda, and that a fifth Saudi prince knowingly provided banking and financial services to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, president of SHC, who was warned in 2000 of his organization's ties to al Qaeda;
Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the designated successor to King Abdullah, who received warnings as early as 1994 that some Muslim charitable groups were fronts for al Qaeda;
Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, who as Saudi Minister of the Interior monitors and controls the charities operating in Saudi Arabia;
Prince Turki al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, who was the director of the Kingdom's Department of General Intelligence ("DGI") until August 2001; and
Prince Mohamed al Faisal al Saud, who unlike the other princes named is not a government official but a bank manager alleged to have knowingly provided material sponsorship to international terrorism.
Not expecting this really to go anywhere but it is interesting.
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Saudi Arabia and the Bin Laden family have America by the balls. Even though most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, the entire Bin Laden family was allowed to leave America right after 9/11 even though all airspace was shut down, and we went into Afghanistan and Iraq instead of looking at Saudi Arabia. That is how powerful they are and how much they have us by the balls.
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I didn't click the link, but if it means what I think it does, then the ruling says the families can't sue SA right? Well, why would they be able to in the first place?
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I didn't click the link, but if it means what I think it does, then the ruling says the families can't sue SA right? Well, why would they be able to in the first place?
Post #3 here is pretty good ... alleging AQ used government officials who hid behind the government ... all alleged of course. It would be nice to see the classified info we have on these government officials and government protected front companies in SA. 9/11 Families Angered As U.S. Backs Saudis - CBS News
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I didn't click the link, but if it means what I think it does, then the ruling says the families can't sue SA right? Well, why would they be able to in the first place?
I guess we could begin with state sponsorship of terror? Pump and dump financial holdings?
“[The] plaintiffs are suing seven international banks; eight Islamic foundations, charities and their subsidiaries; individual terrorist financiers; the Saudi bin Laden Group; three Saudi princes; and the government of Sudan for allegedly bankrolling the terrorist al Qaeda network, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban,” reported CNN.
The Dept. of Justice claims Saudi Arabia "is party to a sovereign state and cannot be sued in American courts." NOT, however, that there is no merit to details of the case.
This is a cave-in by Obama, and very disappointing. But then, considering the world is running out of oil, and that Saudi has 25% of what left? I suppose I understand Barack's "greater good" stance here.
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I didn't click the link, but if it means what I think it does, then the ruling says the families can't sue SA right? Well, why would they be able to in the first place?
Was not aware that the decisions of our court system could enforce anything they decided in another sovereign country?? Aren't there jurisdictional issues here??
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This is a cave-in by Obama, and very disappointing. But then, considering the world is running out of oil, and that Saudi has 25% of what left? I suppose I understand Barack's "greater good" stance here.
I'm sure you'd be as forgiving, or understanding, if it were "Boy King" doing the same.
Hey, guess what? Meet the new guy (Obama), same as all the old guys.
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