An attorney for Saudi Arabia says that nation had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks and should be dismissed as a defendant in lawsuits brought by victims’ families.
Attorney Michael Kellogg made the argument Thursday during a hearing in New York.
Saudi Arabia was dismissed nine years ago from the litigation but was restored as a defendant in 2013 by a federal appeals court in Manhattan.
Kellogg says there are no facts showing Saudi Arabia knew of the attacks in advance or knowingly aided terrorists.
The lawsuits were brought in 2002 and afterward against countries, companies and organizations accused of
(AP)
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I thought Kellogs was a cornflakes company.
Given that al Queda had been trying to overthrow the Saudi government well before 9-11, and Bin Laden would have been executed had he be caught by the Saudis, it makes no sense to sue the Saudi government. An analogy would be to have sued the United States for damage done by the rebels during the civil war.
This sounds like lawyers trying to annoy defenants in hopes of getting a “settlement” to buy them off.
Akuperma,
It is a rare occurrance when we agree, but this is one of them.
Bin Laden was stripped of his Saudi citizenship years before 911.
The fact that he was ever a Saudi citizen was purely an accident of birth.