US District Judge George Daniels has rejected efforts by Saudi Arabia to get lawsuits against them over 9/11 thrown out. The judge ruled that the allegations are narrow enough for there to be a reasonable basis to assert jurisdiction over the case.
That’s because of the 2016 Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which expressly allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia over its involvement in supporting the attackers. JASTA passed unanimously through both House and Senate, and President Obama’s attempted veto was overridden.
The Saudi Foreign Minister, at the time, claimed that they would retaliate against JASTA, potentially collapsing the US debt market by dumping American government debt en masse. This was seen as a major factor in the administration’s opposition to the bill.
But the 28 pages from the 9/11 report, finally released in redacted form, showed Saudi support for 9/11 attackers, and it fueled a lot of support in Congress for JASTA. Without the act, the Saudis could claim sovereign immunity, which effective precludes Americans suing them irrespective of their crimes.
The judge did, however, dismiss claims against Saudi businesses and a government-linked charity, saying that those did not overcome the presumption of immunity. This may limit the ability of plaintiffs to seek payouts, as only the Saudi government itself will be on the hook for any damages awarded.
What about the Saudi partners in the CIA and FBI who collaborated in hosting and protecting alQ hijackers for over a year, concealing all these activities from the WH and field agents?
(see Congressional 9/11 Commission for details)…Saudis should trot out US treachery as part of their defense… that would be very interesting… including Mueller’s cover-up role in 9/11
Then there’s the US military which stood down during the attacks and likely turned commercial airliners into drones.
And what about Israeli involvement, don’t they have specific high-tech to carry out such a complicated attack? Saudi Arabia is just a distraction, they have nothing to do with 9/11.
The Mossad/Israelis knew all about the plot. They had a whole unit of intelligence agents — the “Art Students” — here monitoring the progress of the hijackers. Watching to see if the US intelligence or law enforcement was developing any awareness of the coming attack. I don’t know of any action they may have taken, as they monitored the progress of the plot, to shield the hijackers from discovery or suppress any discovered elements from leading to such discovery. But they knew, and watched, and waited, and did nothing, clearly in favor of the attack succeeding, as that would serve Israeli interests.
Israel is no “friend/ally” of the US. They are no one’s “friend/ally”. Quite the opposite. With their supremacist attitude — a suicidal tribal attitude of contempt for anyone not “Israeli” — they are everyone’s adversary, having demonstrated that character for 5000 years. The tragic truth of the Israeli situation is that in the end, the real “existential threat” to Israel,…. is Israel.
I’m an American and a Jéw.
Mossad had no operational role in 9/11… over 50 CIA execs and the FBI knew the alQ hijackers were running freely around the US for a year or more… Mossad moles would have heard this
But Mossad did not host, finance or protect any 9/1 1 personnel. 9/11 was a terror spectacle run by the Americans and Saudis.
“I’m an American and a Jéw.”
And you think this matters because … ???
BS. A plane can´t take down a steel tower and two planes can´t take down 3 steel towers. But nano-thermite can and it was found by scientists, one of them Dr Niels Harrit, Uni of Copenhagen. Nobody has claimed that OBL had access to nano-thermite. Remember the Israeli “art students” celebrating and filming the event as it happened on a hill outside N.Y. ? WHERE DID THE NANO-THERMITE COME FROM ? The plot thickens !
Truther bs. Nano-thermite has zero brisance, and besides which, there was no nano-thermite. Thermite is a blend of aluminum powder and rust, substances so ubiquitous in any modern building that the ground up material of a collapsed building will have substantial quantities of these residues. The ignorance of factual reality, of chemistry, physics, and the composition of building materials has convinced the Truthers of their counterfactual conspiracy notion. And then, being human and thus subject to tribal devotion to a chosen mythological belief — religious belief being the classic version — they will forever remain convinced of their status as “superior” people possessed of “superior enlightenment”.
They quickly sent what was left to China. Nonetheless, 9 scientists, Dr Niels Harrit was only one of them, found nano-thermite. Science is science. Why deny it ? A plane can´t take down a steel tower and two planes can´t take down 3 steel towers. That´s impossible. Or Isaac Newton lived in vain as Dr Niels Harrit said. But why deny facts ? Because the truth is too horrible ? And remember USS Liberty. They learned a lot from the Nazis. The “Israeli art students” who filmed and celebrated the event on a hill outside N.Y. later said on Israeli TV that they were there to document the event ! BS OBL and BS Saudi involvement. And by the way, Pilots For Truth claim that there were no planes at all, it was all a film trick AND nano-thermite.
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
To the real perps of 9/11 (not 19 Arabs led by some dude holed up in a cave in Afghanistan) – Karma can be a nasty bitch!
As a non-American who does not see “9/11” as the most important date in history, I wonder how the PTB in the USA, claiming to believe the Report on this crime, can still treat Saudi Arabia as one of its main allies just for financial reasons while waging war against numerous other Muslim countries and treating Iran as a party to the massacres in Yemen as if the Saudis spoke the truth.