Good News! Saudi’s Immune In 9/11 Material Support Case
Posted on August 14, 2008
What would we do without our wonderful courts? Liberals must be in a quandary. They have complained non-stop about most of the 9/11 hijackers, not to mention Bin Laden, being Saudi’s (yet would never step up to the plate saying we should have attacked Saudi Arabia,) and we should “do something.” On the other hand, the majority of courts seem to have a liberal bent. Which do they support?
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four princes and other Saudi entities are immune from a lawsuit filed by victims of the September 11 attacks and their families alleging they gave material support to al Qaeda, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a 2006 ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Casey dismissing a claim against Saudi Arabia, a Saudi charity, four princes and a Saudi banker of providing material support to al Qaeda before the September 11 attacks.
Unfortunately, the Court found that the Islamists were covered by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and also that since Saudi Arabia has not been designated a state sponsor of terrorism, there can be no exception.
Islamists 1 – Families of 9/11 victims 0. Thanks, 2nd Circuit Court!
As a sidebar, this is exactly why the USA needs to not only commence a massive program of drilling, but implementing more nuclear, coal, natural gas, wind, and solar projects, so that we are not beholden to folks like the radicals in the House of Saud and other Islamists who control foreign oil.
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Saudi Arabia not a state sponsor of terrorism?
That’s like saying that the Nazis weren’t anti-Semites.
Best line from the movie “Syriana”:
Matt Damon, playing a US oil company executive speaking to Saudi-esque prince:
“You wannt know what we really think of you? We think that 100 years ago you were a bunch of savages living in the desert chopping off each others heads for slight, real or imagined. And when the oil runs out, in another 100 years or so, you’ll be right back out in the desert, chopping each others heads off all over again.”
The character playing the Saudi-esque prince responds:
“Tell me something I don’t know.”
Is it really the court’s fault that we kiss the Saudi’s butts and have some silly Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act that includes them all? Who wrote the laws in a way it would include all Saudi citizens? I think you nailed it with the oil paragraph. Its not JUST the courts that were wrong here.