{"id":521,"date":"2017-03-24T00:47:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2017-03-24T00:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:47:59","slug":"saudi-arabia-faces-largest-ever-911-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/03\/24\/saudi-arabia-faces-largest-ever-911-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia faces largest ever 9\/11 lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

(THE INDEPENDENT):\u00a0<\/strong>One of the largest ever lawsuits relating to the September 11 terror attacks has been filed against Saudi Arabia in\u00a0New York. Families of 850 victims who died and the 1,500 injured, are suing the\u00a0Middle Eastern country’s\u00a0government, accusing it of providing material and financial assistance to al Qaeda in the years leading up to worst ever terrorist attack on US soil.<\/p>\n

Of the 19 hijackers who took over the aeroplanes during the attack, 15 were from Saudi Arabia. The complaint accuses Saudi officials of being aware that money was redirected\u00a0to al\u00a0Qaeda\u00a0from charities in the country, so they could\u00a0finance their attacks.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs have been able to utilise the US’s Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. Passed last year, it allows lawsuits to be brought against foreign states. Barack Obama opposed the law but was overruled by Congress and since then there have been six other lawsuits filed against Saudi Arabia by the families of 9\/11 victims.<\/p>\n

Explaining the lawsuit\u2019s reasoning, co-chairman of the plaintiffs’ committee Jim Kreindler told CNN<\/a>: \u201c9\/11 could not have happened without Saudi Arabia’s support for al Qaeda.” His colleague Jerry Goldman added: \u201cWe intend, just like we have for over the last 13 years, to move forward to seek justice on behalf of all the families, and accountability on behalf of all the people in this country.”<\/p>\n

Their complaint cites both CIA and FBI reports, including the “28 pages” a section of\u00a0the 2002 Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, that was declassified last year.\u00a0That suggested that\u00a0the hijackers\u00a0received assistance and financial support from individuals connected to the Saudi Arabian government,\u00a0implicating\u00a0intelligence officers, embassy staff, and members of the country’s royal family.<\/p>\n

The Saudi government has denied any involvement in the attacks and has refused to comment on the latest case to the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(THE INDEPENDENT):\u00a0One of the largest ever lawsuits relating to the September 11 terror attacks has been filed against Saudi Arabia in\u00a0New York. Families of 850 victims who died and the 1,500 injured, are suing the\u00a0Middle Eastern country’s\u00a0government, accusing it of providing material and financial assistance to al Qaeda in the years leading up to worst ever terrorist attack on US… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,26,6,28,51,27],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-43","tag-al-qaeda","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-terrorism","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}