Lloyd's insurer sues Saudi Arabia for 'funding 9/11 attacks'

[Oilwellian]

This could get interesting...

(snip)

A Lloyd's insurance syndicate has begun a landmark legal case against Saudi Arabia, accusing the kingdom of indirectly funding al-Qa'ida and demanding the repayment of £136m it paid out to victims of the 9/11 attacks.

The Brighton-based Lloyd's 3500 syndicate, which paid $215m compensation to companies and individuals involved, alleges that the oil-rich Middle Eastern superpower bears primary responsibility for the atrocity because al-Qa'ida was supported by banks and charities acting as "agents and alter egos" for the Saudi state.

The detailed case, which names a number of prominent Saudi charities and banks as well as a leading member of the al-Saud royal family, will cause embarrassment to the Saudi government, which has long denied claims that Osama bin Laden's organisation received official financial and practical support from his native country.

Outlined in a 156-page document filed in western Pennsylvania, where United Airlines flight 93 crashed on 9/11, the claim suggests that the nine defendants "knowingly" provided resources, including funding, to al-Qa'ida in the years before the attack and encouraged anti-Western sentiment which increased support for the terror group.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lloyds-insurer-sues-saudi-arabia-for-funding-911-attacks-2356857.html

[snagglepuss]

1. I wonder if this lawsuit is why there was that recent revelation about

the Florida Saudi connection? It's odd that the long suppressed story about that Saudi couple who fled Florida was revelaed just weeks before this lawsuit is launched.

[newspeak]

2. good luck with that!!!

hopefully they do better than the jersey girls. I believe James Baker III defended the saudis. Let's see, SA hated Saddam-Saddam who by the way was a deterrent against Iran--SA wanted our base gone-done. It sure looks like SA has really benefited from that fateful day. Now who financed the mostly Saudi terrorists, enquiring minds want to know.

Little boots wanted a war with Iraq so bad, he could taste it!!! There's money to be made taking us to war with a country that had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. The american people gulped the hook down that a very complicit corporate media helped feed them.

A bunch of lying, corrupt greedy arseholes, that I hope will one day see justice.

[demosincebirth]

5. Don't forget that Iraq had/has a ton of oil.

[RadiationTherapy]

3. Hm. Free market capitalism to the rescue!

Weird.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Good to see it being talked about openly ,Any Dubai money laying around?

How much did Halliburton make in the long run?

[lindysalsagal]

6. I'm really glad we atacked and occupied Saudi arabia for attacking us

oh-wait....

[flvegan]

7. They should add party defendants Bush, Cheney, et al for letting it happen. n/t

[mdmc]

8. ..