The government has no intention of revealing the details of what sovereign states were involved in the attack on 9/11, as I have commented on in the past. Now, things are getting more absurd.
...we are disappointed with today’s decision by the panel of
judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in John
P. O’Neill, Sr. et al. v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, et al., to the effect
that Americans harmed or killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001 do not have standing to sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
While acknowledging that the plaintiffs have pled substantial
information linking the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to certain purported
charitable organizations, and demonstrating their role in facilitating the
activities of Al Qaeda around the world, the panel utilized a unique and
previously unsupported rationale for denying Americans the opportunity to
use US Courts to seek redress for the harms that they suffered as a result
of the 9/11 attacks.
Under the Court’s rationale, were New Yorkers to be side-swiped by a
car driven by an employee of the Saudi embassy, they could sue for the
bumps and bruises that they suffered and the damage to their vehicle, yet
the nearly 3,000 families of those innocents who were brutally killed in
lower Manhattan, rural Pennsylvania and the Pentagon can not pursue their
claims. Additionally, those who plan, conspire and provide support for
terrorists, from havens abroad, cannot be held accountable for their
actions in our Courts, according to today’s ruling.
Yet, in a stinging setback for Cozen and other plaintiffs’ lawyers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said U.S. law bars such lawsuits unless the State Department has found that a government provided material support for terrorist groups.
The State Department has made no such finding regarding Saudi Arabia.
Well, there you have it folks. The government has failed to investigate and rectify 9/11. Private suits have been brought on behalf of the deceased and the insurance companies and a solid case has been made for their involvement in the funding and charities implicated. Those suits cannot go through because the State Department under Bush has refused to list the number one terror financiers in the world as terror financiers. The last hopes of rectifying 9/11 are crashing and burning because of international cronyism.
Just thought you guys might want a little GWOT update. Now go back to talking about how tough on terrorism Bush is.