Obama admin. side with Saudi royal family on 8/11 lawsuit (Iraq, legal, lawyers)

[uggabugga]

..despite new evidence of their involvement

The Obama administration is supporting efforts by the Saudi royal family to defeat a long-running lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find its way into court because of legal and diplomatic obstacles.

huh. no wonder bammers bowed like that

[ugh. 9/11 lawsuit. courtesy edit, mods?]

[SouthCity09]

i wonder if the families of the 5000 dead soldiers can sue Bush for being a dumbass and sending them into Iraq for no reason.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

"Obama admin. side with Saudi royal family on 8/11 lawsuit"

What happened on 8/11?

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

What happened on 8/11?

yeah, yeah, i know. i goofed. see the edit request

do you agree with obama on this one?

[SouthCity09]

Looks like the lower courts and everyone else inbetween cited with the Royal family....how can you sue someone thats not even from here.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

do you agree with obama on this one?

I can't say. It's over my head.

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by SouthCity09

Looks like the lower courts and everyone else inbetween cited with the Royal family....how can you sue someone thats not even from here.

like so:

While the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act broadly protects foreign governments against lawsuits filed by U.S. citizens, the act provides exemptions, and federal judges have allowed suits to proceed in two notorious cases involving state-sanctioned assassinations.

In one, the survivors of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the United States, were allowed to sue the Chilean government after it was established in criminal proceedings that Letelier had been killed in a Washington bombing involving four operatives and senior officials of the Chilean intelligence services and two Cuban exiles.

did everyone miss this part?

Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for al-Qaida and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family.

[SouthCity09]

So? you think the Saudis would send anyone to stand trail?

[Jill61]

Actually, it sounds more like the Justice Department is following the law, as well as the rulings by the lower courts, that says the plaintiffs don't have standing to sue in this jurisdiction.

It sucks, but it's hardly President Obama's fault that the laws are as they are.

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by SouthCity09

So? you think the Saudis would send anyone to stand trail?

doesn't matter. remember the lockerbie bombing lawsuit?

libya [and khadaffi] lost.