Thursday, December 14, 2006
Did 9/11 lawsuit chase Saudi ambassdor from U.S.?
Reports indicate Prince Turki al-Faisal of the House of Saud is resigining his ambassadorship and fleeing the U.S. Could this be because he has failed to get a four-year-old civil against him? His last-ditch attempt to avoid facing trial was in October, and that motino failed. Some commentators place Turki at the American Hospital in Dubai with Osama bin Laden and CIA officers back in July 2001.
Update on the $1 trillion civil lawsuit filed against Saudis by 9/11 family members from an October report in The Setonian: "Earlier this year, Prince Turki was served a summons by a Washington, D.C. federal court in relation to the $3 trillion civil suit filed in the form of a complaint in August 2002.
"[The lawsuit] has been brought on behalf of more than 3,000 plaintiffs who are 9-11 victims or family members of 9-11 victims," explained Hanly & Conloy’s Andrea Bierstein, a lawyer working on the case. "It names more than 150 defendants and seeks to bring to justice the financial sponsors of terrorism who made the 9-11 attacks possible."
The plaintiffs' documents are based on investigations by lawyers for the 9-11 victims and as yet unpublished information from U.S. and other western intelligence agencies, according to the complaint.
Alleged Continued Contact with Terrorists
Ali Al-Ahmed, the executive director of the Virginia-based Saudi Institute, asserts a relationship existed between Prince Turki and Bin Laden in the 1980s and 1990s. The Saudi Institute is an independent think tank which reports to expose human rights violations, sponsorship of terrorism and incitement of hatred by the Saudi government.
"(Prince Turki) was personally involved with supporting groups that committed acts of terror," Al-Ahmed said. "Some of the people he supported attacked the U.S. and killed Americans."
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