{"id":1574,"date":"2002-08-16T01:05:33","date_gmt":"2002-08-16T06:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2002-08-16T01:05:33","modified_gmt":"2002-08-16T06:05:33","slug":"thatll_teach_you_116_trillion_lawsuit_filed_against_bin_laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/thatll_teach_you_116_trillion_lawsuit_filed_against_bin_laden\/","title":{"rendered":": That&#8217;ll Teach You!&amp;nbsp; $116 Trillion Lawsuit Filed Against bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>What a year of military action in Afghanistan couldn\u2019t do, a group of relatives of 9\/11 victims hope to with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com%2F2002%2FLAW%2F08%2F15%2Fattacks.suit%2Findex.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">massive civil lawsuit<\/a> directed against various groups and individuals accused of supporting the attacks, including bin Laden himself (good luck collecting), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afghan-info.com%2FTALIBAN.HTM\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Taliban<\/a> (do they even exist anymore?), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbg.com.sa\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Saudi Binladen Group<\/a> (one of the world\u2019s largest construction companies, owned by the bin Laden family who disowned Osama many years ago), seven international banks, some Muslim charities (including the US-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fpolitics_comments.php%3Fid%3DP328_0_10_0_C%26which%3Dpolitics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Benevolence International<\/a>), a few Saudi princes who were unlucky enough to get caught on tape paying off Al-Qaida so they wouldn\u2019t hurt their businesses, and the government of Sudan.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.findlaw.com%2Fhdocs%2Fdocs%2Fterrorism%2Fburnettba81502cmp.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lawsuit (.pdf)<\/a>, which is seeking $116 trillion (with a T), is being led by attorney Allan Gerson and is modeled after a suit he brought against Libya after the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.  \u201cI think we can do it,\u201d said Deena Burnett, whose husband was killed on hijacked Flight 93 over Pennsylvania.  \u201cIt\u2019s up to us to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Famericas%2F2196045.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bankrupt the terrorists<\/a>.\u201d  In response, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com%2F2002%2F08%2F15%2Finternational%2Fmiddleeast%2F15SAUD.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Saudi government<\/a> noted that it had revoked bin Laden\u2019s citizenship long ago and has cooperated closely with American authorities in the war on terrorism.  The Bush administration, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com%2Fmld%2Finquirer%2Fnews%2Ffront%2F3815081.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mulling<\/a> the role that Saudis have had in spreading extremism, reiterated its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com%2Fdailyglobe2%2F219%2Fnation%2FUS_disavows_depiction_of_Saudis_as_enemies%2B.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">position<\/a> that the Saudis are on our side \u2013 at least for now.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing Americans are good at, it&#8217;s deep-pocket lawsuits &#8211; and this one against bin Laden and his alleged supporters is as deep as they come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: That&#8217;ll Teach You!&amp;nbsp; 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