US Court: Saudis Not Liable For 9/11 Attacks
Court cites ‘immunities act’ as basis for ruling
August 15, 2008
NEW YORK (Agencies)
A federal appeals court has ruled Saudi Arabia could not be held liable for the September 11 attacks against the United States despite charitable donations that ended up in the hands of al-Qaeda.
Upholding a 2006 decision by a lower court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday ruled inadmissible a lawsuit in which families of victims of the 9/11 attacks charged that Saudi Arabia, four Saudi princes, a Saudi charity and bank had given material support to al-Qaeda.
The victims and their families argued that because the defendants gave money to Muslim charities that in turn gave money to al Qaeda, they should be held responsible for helping to finance the attacks.
But the court in its ruling said that the “Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976″ granted the Saudi defendants immunity from prosecution on U.S. soil.
It also ruled that a charity named in the suit, the Saudi High Commission for Relief to Bosnia and Herzegovina, was also immune under the same law as it was “an agency or instrumentality of the Kingdom.”
Exceptions to the immunity provisions did not apply in the case, the court ruled, “because the Kingdom has not been designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States.”
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Such is the mindset of the liberal left, that those who kill us, directly or indirectly, are not responsible for their acts. The enemy within remains.
August 16th, 2008 at 6:52 amUN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!
Hoisted on our own pitard…………
August 16th, 2008 at 6:53 am“because the Kingdom has not been designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States.”
I wonder what the threshold limit on donations is in order to join the “state sponsor club”
WTF These are the same goat fuckers largely responsible for escalating the anti-American curriculum in our universities too…
August 16th, 2008 at 7:31 amliberals live in a world where black or white are really just shades of grey.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:51 am