Posted on 08/17/2008 7:46:11 AM PDT by BGHater
A federal appeals court on Thursday 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 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 plaintiffs in the case cited Saudi donations to Muslim charity groups that were later transferred to the Al-Qaeda terror network, arguing the Saudis were responsible for financing the 9/11 attacks.
The court in its ruling said the "Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976" granted the Saudi defendants immunity from prosecution on US 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."
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Can’t wait to see what this appeals court says about indentured servitude or slavery.
The Saudi's fund every mosque and madrassa built around the world (Source: June 2002 Wall Street Journal)
Therefore, you bet your ass they're guilty.
We attacked the wrong country (Iraq) post Sept. 11th, 2001.
We should've nuked Saudi Arabia and turned it to one giant glass parking lot instead.
Was the US responsible for Oklahoma City?
Tin foil at the ready
I nominate yours for stupidest post of the year.
In other news, the Second Circuit ruled that Hurricane Katrina had nothing to do with destruction in New Orleans.
The title gives the wrong impression. The court didn’t say they didn’t do it, the court said the Saudis are immune from law suits because they’re a soverign country. They may be as guilty as hell you just can’t take them to court and prove it.
Next time I’ll draw you a satirical cartoon. The leap from contact with terrorists to cupability for their acts works both ways.
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