Algerian pilot wins damages for 9/11 slur

[dArKeR]

London - An Algerian pilot who was falsely accused of being involved in the September 11 terror attacks in the United States won a public apology and undisclosed damages from a British newspaper at London's High Court on Monday.

Lotfi Raissi, 29, who has also filed separate claims against the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US justice department, won the case against Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Mail On Sunday, which carried the allegations.

Louis Charalambous, Raissi's lawyer, told the court the Mail On Sunday published an article on September 30, 2001 which referred to allegations made by Washington, in particular that Raissi trained some of the hijackers who flew suicide missions into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

Raissi, a British-based Algerian who studied at a flight school in Arizona, was arrested in London 10 days after the September 11 attacks and held at a high-security prison.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1065440881634B216&set_id=1

[Paschall]

1. I hope his suit against the FBI and DOJ...

...is successful.

[jamesinca]

2. I hope it brings some light to the issue

America is really in the dark about the lies tht Bush has been telling.