Judge Drops Saudi Arabia From Sept. 11 Lawsuit
Source: Associated Press
Saudi Arabia was dismissed Tuesday as a defendant in lawsuits brought by the families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks by a judge who said lawyers had failed to show sufficient evidence linking the country to the attacks.
U.S. District Judge George Daniels said in a written ruling that lawyers for the plaintiffs had failed to show facts sufficient to overcome Saudi Arabia's sovereign immunity. He also dismissed as a defendant the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia & Herzegovina on the grounds that the charity is an instrument of Saudi Arabia and thus covered as well by sovereign immunity.
The judge wrote that evidence would have to show that Saudi Arabia or its officials took actions to support the terrorist plot. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia.
Among evidence rejected by the judge as insufficient were the recent claims of a man who became known as the "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui claimed a Saudi prince helped him financially in 2001 when he was studying at a flight school in Norman, Oklahoma, and also funneled a large amount of money to some of the 19 men who hijacked planes on Sept. 11.
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Sep 29, 2015, 8:35 PM ET
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)hibbing
(10,109 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)is most likely classified so it's a catch-22. The evidence is needed but it's classified so you have no case.
WDIM
(1,662 posts)Our legal system is truly messed up with hypothetical theoritical nonsense like soverign immunity. Nobody should be immune from justice. No country should be immune from crimes it has done. Giving a country or a person immunity from crime leads to no justice and no peace.
They have an eye witness. Everybody knows the Bin Ladens were extremely wealthy. Most of the terrorist leaders come from wealthy family are back by enormous wealth and even allowed to sell oil. How can the sale of oil not be monitored and not be traced? We know who is funding them we know we could stop it. Just like they knew about 9-11 and they could of stopped it.
Now our law enforcement create the terrorist plots just to stop them. Look keep sending us money be afraid and send us money.
Anytime anything happens always follow the money. War profiteers and the MIC are criminals. The Saudi government is criminal. Our leadership around the world is corrupt and criminal. Profiting on other peoples misery. Hoarding wealth. Exploiting workers. Exploiting consumers exploiting citizens and it is all because of soverign immunity, too big to fail and too big to jail.
Stainless
(718 posts)Should we be suspicious of U.S. District Judge George Daniels? I'd say he's a bought and paid for shill for the Saudi's.
forest444
(5,902 posts)The Saudis hired Baker-Botts, James Baker's law firm, to defend them in that lawsuit. They certainly got their money's worth.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Iran
AnAzulTexas
(108 posts)or our government's expedited rush to get the bin Laden family home and safe away from the (deserved) American's outrage towards them. Way to go, Judge George Daniels. I bet you feel like a TRUE PATRIOTIC AMERICAN right now. with that boosted bank account, no doubt.
it's too bad we don't gather with pitchforks and burn you out of your house, tar and feather you these days, you crooked bastard.
eggplant
(3,913 posts)Which I'm sure wouldn't shed any light on this case. At all. Nope.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)Benghazi , Planed Parenthood , e-mails etc.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)what happens in these cases. How corrupt this country is!
Justice for sale.
24601
(3,962 posts)"George Benjamin Daniels (born 1953) is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York."
"Daniels was born in Allendale, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1975. He received a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1978. He was a Trial attorney of Legal Aid Society of New York from 1978 to 1980. law clerk, Hon. Rose Bird, Chief Justice, California Supreme Court, 1980-1981. He was a Bar review course instructor, University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1981. From 1981 to 1983, he was in private practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Daniels went on to serve as an assistant U.S. Attorney of U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. He was an Adjunct professor of law, Brooklyn Law School, NY from 1988 to 1991. In addition, Daniels was a judge on the Criminal Court of the City of New York from 1989 to 1990. From 1990 to 1993, Daniels was a Counsel to New York City's mayor. He then was a judge on the Criminal Court of the City of New York from 1993 to 1995. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York from 1995 to 2000."
"Daniels is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Daniels was nominated by President Bill Clinton on August 5, 1999, to a seat vacated by Robert P. Patterson, Jr.. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 24, 2000, and received his commission on March 9, 2000."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Daniels
Nihil
(13,508 posts)Corrupt piece of shit.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)We should keep as much as possible hidden b.c the truth might expose the principals' network of BigOil Big$ transactions.
librechik
(30,676 posts)good to know...
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Even the governments story leaves them responsible for ignoring warnings. Although it was a false flag operation, so it would be right to sue Bush/Cheney. They should actually be in jail.