Funding Terrorism Is Issue in Chicago Case (Sue terrorist support groups)

the new york sun ^ | September 11, 2008 | JOSH GERSTEIN

[kellynla]

A federal appeals court that includes some of America's most prominent jurists is wrestling with a case that could set an important precedent about when Americans can be held legally liable for funding groups, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, that carry out terrorist operations and humanitarian aid efforts at the same time.

In Chicago, 10 judges who constitute nearly the entire active bench of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals spent more than an hour hearing lively arguments in a lawsuit brought by the family of an American yeshiva student, David Boim, 17, who was sprayed with gunfire and killed in an apparent terrorist attack at a West Bank bus stop in 1996.

After a trial, a federal court jury found Hamas responsible for Boim's death and returned a $52 million verdict against several Islamic groups based in America and an Islamist activist, Mohammed Salah. The verdict was tripled to $156 million, under federal law. However, in December, a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit overturned that decision, ruling, 2–1, that the plaintiffs did not show an "adequate causal link" between the killing and the donations sent from America.

[kellynla]

We didn't allow German-American Bunds in America during WWII. After 9/11, ALL foreign Muslims should have been deported and ALL foreign mosques closed.

[camle]

what about all those democrats, including dear patches kennedy who support chavez? since he’s bankrolling FARC in colombia, aren’t these people , and all those who buy gas from citgo, funding terrorists???