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| Families of USS Cole Bombing Victims Sue Sudan |
| 2004-07-19 |
| The families of seven victims of the attack on the U-S-S Cole are suing the Sudanese government in Norfolk federal court. The lawsuit claims that the north African nation financed and trained the al-Qaida terrorists who carried out the attack in October 2000 in the port of Yemen. It alleges that Sudan harbored Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network from 1996 through 2001. The suit seeks ten (m) million dollars for each of five spouses and five (m) million dollars for each of the victims' children. The families filed suit in Norfolk because the Cole is based at Norfolk Naval Station and several of the families still reside in the area. The families also allege that Sudan and bin Laden operated joint businesses and a bank that provided the financing for the Cole attack. The president of Sudan also is accused of personally authorizing bin Laden's entry into the country and allowing him to avoid paying taxes. The attack on the destroyer killed 17 sailors. Six suspected al-Qaida operatives were charged earlier this month in Yemen with plotting the attack. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #2 Civil court is a worse venue to fight terrorism as criminal court (an incredibly bad venue itself.) Terrorists should be killed and not prosecuted. Terrorist enabling regimes should be removed not sued. If a terrorist is accidentally captured, they should be tried in a military tribunal and represented by a lawyer who understands that leaking classified documents to other terrorists will result in hard time for him, as well. Also all terrorists should be executed. Although I fully agree with the pope's statements calling for use of the death penalty only in cases where the perp represents a further danger to innocents, I think all terrorists meet the special case criteria. What we are seeing in Iraq and have seen throughout the world in the last forty years is that incarcerating terrorists results in hostages taken and killed. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-19 10:19:47 PM |
| #1 May I be the first to say why? Even if they win a suet against the Sudanese government they will never see a penny of that settlement. They might as well sue bin Laden himself. |
| Posted by: John 2004-07-19 6:14:54 PM |