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Federal Court Grants Immunity To Sponsors Of 9/11 Attacks | Winter Patriot Community Blog
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Federal Court Grants Immunity To Sponsors Of 9/11 Attacks

Fri, 08/15/2008 - 10:43 — Winter
Yesterday, according to Reuters, a federal court ruled that
"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..."
Why? Because foreigners are protected by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act unless their country is "designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. State Department", and Saudi Arabia is not so designated. So there.
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Fri, 08/15/2008 - 17:04 — littlehorn

Foreigners are protected ?

Now I remember having heard of foreigners getting kidnapped by the CIA in Europe. What of that Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act at that time ?

This is just one more proof that the US is now a bipartisan dictatorship, with elections every two years.

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