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| Soddies taking the gaspipe over lawsuit... |
| 2002-08-17 |
| A lawsuit against Islamic groups and three top Saudi royals by relatives of the victims of the September 11 attacks should instead be brought against Washington for training terrorists, newspapers here said Saturday. Yeah! 'Cause... Huh? "Many of those America is hunting now for terrorism graduated from American training camps," Al-Watan newspaper said in an editorial, in reference to U.S. support for Muslim Mujahideen who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. "America had trained terrorists at camps across American territory ... and it refused to extradite (Al-Qaeda leader) Osama bin Laden from Sudan in 1996," the paper added. "So, the relatives of victims of September 11 attacks should file the lawsuit against the United States, and not against the Saudis." I think the suit is frivolous, myself. But using that kind of argument against it is fatuous. I was actually going to ignore the suit, unless something unusual happened (like the plaintiffs not being tossed out of court) until they burped up this bile... More than 600 relatives of victims who perished at the hand of suicide hijackers, most of whom were Saudis, filed a lawsuit seeking up to to three trillion dollars in punitive damages for each of 14 counts from 99 organizations or individuals. That's "trillion." With a "tr". A trillion is a thousand billion. This is equivalent to saying, "I'd like all the money in the world, please. And triple that for pain and suffering." It also seeks 100 trillion dollars in damages from Sudan, where Bin Laden, stripped of his Saudi nationality in 1994, developed Al-Qaeda into a terror machine. Y'mean that place that tried to turn him over to us? That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense... Al-Madinah newspaper branded the case as political and financial blackmail. "It is a case of open financial and political blackmail ... by skilled lawyers who are fabricating evidence in an environment that is hostile to Arab culture and values," said the daily. No, it's just stupidity by a bunch of trial lawyers and people who are doing next thing to making fun of the people killed on 9-11. Al-Madinah has no idea whether any evidence is being fabricated or not, since none's been presented. Sounds more like a guilty conscience to me: "Y'don't suppose they could, do ya?" It also called for the United States to be sued over the killing of thousands of Palestinians and Arabs by U.S.-made weapons supplied to Israel. Lookitdat! They farted right into the article... Okaz newspaper warned that the United States is now targeting Saudi Arabia and its people. "The issue is no longer a media campaign instigated by Israel ... it has exceeded the limits of blackmail and pressure to target the kingdom and its people," the paper said. Sounds like another guilty conscience. But even in the perverse American legal system, I doubt greatly they're going to have to hand over their country because a judge says they're killers, twice or thrice removed... Al-Nadwa daily said the lawsuit sought to accuse charities in the kingdom of funding terrorism, but the ultimate goal was to convict Saudi Arabia itself. Assuming the two are the same, yes. That's true... Al-Riyadh newspaper, which like all Saudi media reflects official views, Friday called on the kingdom's leadership to revise its strategic alliance with the United States, saying Washington was not Riyadh's only option. Hmmm... Yasss... There's always... uh... Pakistan. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |