So a Philadelphia law firm is leading a lawsuit against members of the Saudi government and specifically several prominent Saudi-based and Saudi-government funded and sanctioned Islamic charities as the funders and supporters of AlQueda and the 9/11 attacks.

The case, a civil case, is ambitious, controversial but has unearthed hundreds of fairly damning ties between these charities and AlQueda. Members of the Saudi royal family seem pretty closely tied to the charities in question, though the case linking the terrorism to the Saudi government seems a bit mor tenuous.

The Inky has a rather lengthy article and will be doing some ongoing coverage on the case. Its quite a read.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news...or_terror.html

And a handy index of the voluminous actual legal documents connected to the case.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/hot_topics/19374964.html

And then this related article
This case is huge international news, and being a local lawfirm, huge local news. It has serious implications for stability in Iraq, Saudi sponsorship of Sunni insurgents inside Iraq, and the ballance in the Gulf regionbetween Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiia Iran.

I'm curious to hear people's take on this.

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A song that says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqITJFGyq4s

The 9/11 Terrorists were all Saudis except one was Egyptian. The Saudi government gets a free pass because of who they are.

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"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people".

Al Queda's funding came from Saudis, but American investigators have never been allowed to explore who the money came from.

And never mind the Bush family's close ties to SA.

About time.

This is great. Can't wait to see if this comes to anything.

Follow the money...

Does this mean we will be paying $7 for gas soon?

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If he ever had to eat his own words he'd die of malnutrition.
Colin P. Varga 1991

SA can murder as many americans as they want. The money outweights the human factor, especially to the leaders on both sides. People are now killing each others for a bunch of wealthy MF's who don't give a rat's azz about them.

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"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people".

Huh. And all this time, OBL has been claiming that he wants to bring down the Saudi government because it is subservient to the West. What a merry prankster he is.

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"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, 1996

He does. There are a lot of wealthy Saudis that are funding him because they'd like to see him do it.

Remember, the Saudi royal family is in power only because the British chose them from a bunch of Bedouin groups to run the country that the (the British) created. A lot of other Saudi groups would like to see themselves in power. even if they don't want OBL as their ruler, they see him as a destabilizing force.

Naturally the rulers of SA will pressure their best friend George but a 5 Billion dollar lawsuit isn't going to quietly go away.

For once... the mega-insurance companies are useful...