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2019-07-30 Home Front: WoT
Accused 9/11 mastermind open to role in victims' lawsuit if not executed
Awfully generous of him, to be sure.
[Jpost] The accused criminal mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has indicated a willingness to be deposed by victims who are suing Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
for damages, if the United States decides not to seek the death penalty
against him.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's offer was disclosed late Friday in a letter filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan by lawyers representing individuals and businesses seeking billions of dollars in damages.

The Saudi government has long denied involvement in the attacks, in which hijacked airplanes crashed into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania field. Nearly 3,000 people died.

Michael Kellogg, a Washington-based lawyer for the Saudi government, declined to comment. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier about the letter.

According to the letter, the plaintiffs' lawyers have been in contact with lawyers for five witnesses in federal custody about their availability for depositions.

The lawyers said three, including Mohammed, are housed at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention camp, where they face capital charges, while two are at the "Supermax" maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado.

According to the letter, Mohammed would not agree "at the present time" to be deposed, but that could change.

"Counsel stated that 'the primary driver' of this decision is the 'capital nature of the prosecution' and that ' n the absence of a potential death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
much broader cooperation would be possible,'" the letter said.

Mohammed and the other Guantanamo detainees have been attending pre-trial hearings in their cases, the letter said.

The U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to similar requests.

Saudi Arabia long had broad immunity from Sept. 11 lawsuits in the United States. But that changed in September 2016 when the U.S. Congress overrode President Barack Obama
That’s just how white folks will do you....
's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act ("JASTA").

In March 2018, U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan, who oversees the litigation by victims, said their claims "narrowly articulate a reasonable basis" for him to assert jurisdiction through JASTA over Saudi Arabia.

His decision covered claims by the families of those killed, roughly 25,000 people who suffered injuries and many businesses and insurers.

The case is In re: Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 03-md-01570.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-30 00:33|| || Front Page|| [17 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 HTF is this guy still alive, if UBL is dead and sunk and in the sea ? The world is crazy.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-30 03:31||   2019-07-30 03:31|| Front Page Top

#2 KSM provided a lot of information to US interrogators subsequent to water treatment. This information was used to prevent other jihad airplane acts and also led to clues which ultimately resulted in locating OBL.

I think we could agree not to execute him.
Posted by lord garth 2019-07-30 04:35||   2019-07-30 04:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Doesn't it dry out after a while ?
Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-30 05:02||   2019-07-30 05:02|| Front Page Top

#4 No, you're right. Such things are best left in a dank hole, visited by a doctor from time to time.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-30 05:03||   2019-07-30 05:03|| Front Page Top

#5 i don't agree . execute him. any info he has is long past being usable
Posted by chris 2019-07-30 07:56||   2019-07-30 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I can't help but wonder if he'd be interested in being Governor of Puerto Rico ?
Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-30 08:00||   2019-07-30 08:00|| Front Page Top

#7 ...or the mayor of Baltimore? It appears they need a mastermind with some experience in urban renewal.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-30 09:01||   2019-07-30 09:01|| Front Page Top

#8 That's really very decent of him after all, 'agreeing to participate'. Very decent indeed.

Fred C Dobbs had it right in black and white, 'Do the mug in, I say'. Something old timey and poorly done with an appropriate lingering visual quality for the telly.
Posted by Cesare 2019-07-30 09:20||   2019-07-30 09:20|| Front Page Top

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