Last year’s Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), a bill which allowed Americans to sue Saudi Arabia in US court over their involvement in 9/11, has yielded another major lawsuit today, a $4.2 billion suit filed by over two dozen US insurers related to losses sustained because of the 2001 attack.
The lawsuit is targeting a pair of Saudi banks, and a number of Saudi companies with ties to the bin Laden family, accusing them of various activities in support of al-Qaeda in the years ahead of 9/11, and subsequently having “aided and abetted” the attack.
The biggest target is the Saudi National Commercial Bank, which is majority state-owned. The Saudi government heavily pressured the Obama Administration to block the JASTA last year, threatening to crash the US treasury market if it led to lawsuits, but overwhelming Congressional support still got it passed into law.
While there were more than a few lawsuits already filed in the past several weeks related to JASTA, this is by far the biggest, and most previous lawsuits are still in limbo as the court and lawyers try to combine them into various class action groups.
Historically, US sovereign immunity laws have prevented suits against the Saudi government related to overseas terrorism. With the release of the Saudi-related portions of the 9/11 Report last year, however, such suits were inevitable, and the federal government could no longer protect the Saudis from litigation.
It’s a shame the JASTA Bill also didn’t allow suit against the U.S. Government, and all those politicians, bureaucrats, and political appointees and their alphabet soup of federal agencies tasked with preserving and protecting American citizens’ life, liberty, and property.
9/11 “succeeded” because of the total and complete failure of the White House, the National Security Council, the CIA, NSA, DoD, FBI, INS, and FAA (among others) to do their jobs. It was by these failures of commission and/or omission that 9/11 was enabled to happen.
I thought Iran had already been found guilty for “aiding and abetting” and been told to puny up the $$$
The trials are a farce.
According to Sahr MuhammedAlly, who observed part of the proceedings at Guantanamo, during the war crimes tribunal—the first since WWII—convened to try Bin Laden’s onetime driver, Salim Hamdan, the government claimed that The 9/11 Commssion Report—a New York Times bestseller—was classified and could not be used in the trial (democracynow.org, August 7, 2008)!
Yes but the never responded to court. 28 pages came about proving Saudis involvement after Iran court rule.
But i guarantee Iran will end up paying. That’s why everyone’s after Iran now starting with Syria first.
The Saudis may have had a role in 9/11 — as patsies. The real culprits are elsewhere. A real investigation of what really happened could begin here — http://www.twf.org/News/Y2012/0815-Evidence.pdf
3000+ military and intelligence personnel, engineers, architects, professors, pilots do not believe the official account of 9/11 — http://www.twf.org/News/Y2011/0911-Muslims.html
Enver,
The “dancing Israelis” would be a good place to start. A group of alien Israelis who somehow managed to know in advance that the Twin Towers were to be attacked and set up their cameras and celebrated the destruction. They were released and flown back to Israel; they should have been water-boarded until they told everything they knew or until they beat the record of about 180 water-boardings that were applied to some Arab, guilty mostly of being an Arab.
The Saudis will probably lose every suit; everyone still thinks of them as having deep pockets – low hanging fruit for a lawyer. Can you imagine Israel being sued for their contributions? Can you imagine the howls of outrage; the comparisons to the Holocaust, comparisons to the czars and the raping Cossacks?
Richard, I’ve focused on the Pentagon because there’s lots more hard evidence, and lived a short walk away. Please see http://www.twf.org/News/Y2012/0815-Evidence.pdf
This, together with my free book “9/11 Unveiled” — google it, and more has been archived at the International Criminal Court. However, nothing will come of it until some member state demands an investigation.
The only reason to torture is to get the fake info the torturers want. Not to get the truth.
Yeah i read an article that Iran is biggest threat to Saudis & Israel now.
Promising in that it could put some cracks in the alliance between the US and Saudi.
Total nonsense to even suggest that the Saudi monarchy were working in concert with Osama Bin Laden. Osama opposed the Saudi evil monarchy, he wasn’t working in concert with it.
Americans need to stop whining and try to figure out who wore the white hats and who wore the black hats.
Anybody care to try to counterspin this one?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/65c2aedc7275615ad6e98088593f73678d6f295cf552b6b77236e27a967800d7.png
Saudi Vision 2030 on their gov’t website. They want to be the “hub” of Islam connecting 3 continents……
Then there’s that Aramco IPO that US wants …
Tell that to the 9/11 families that are suing. Read the letter they wrote to Jeff Sessions.
http://passjasta.org/