$1 trillion lawsuit filed by 9/11 families
 

This is the article off the main page of cnn.com.

I find it kind of greedy that families of victims ask for money, don't you? Why should the government be compensating? Shouldn't it come out of the pocket os Osama bin Laden and his family? I know in all major tradigies government payout is common, not just in this case, but it doesn't really make sense to me.

[quote:f85f1]WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Acknowledging the odds are against them, relatives of the September 11 attacks filed a 15-count, $1 trillion lawsuit Thursday against the company run by Osama bin Laden's family, Saudi Arabian princes and Sudan.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by more than 600 family members, plus some firefighters and rescue workers.

Calling themselves Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism, the plaintiffs are suing seven international banks; eight Islamic foundations, charities and their subsidiaries; individual terrorist financiers; the Saudi bin Laden Group; three Saudi princes; and the government of Sudan for allegedly bankrolling the terrorist al Qaeda network, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.

The Saudi bin Laden Group is the construction company operated in Saudi Arabia by Osama bin Laden's brothers. Fifteen of the hijackers were Saudi Arabian, the FBI has said.

Deena Burnett, whose husband, Tom, was killed on hijacked Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, expressed optimism about the challenge at a news conference.

It's up to us, and I think we can do it," she said. "It's up to us to bankrupt the terrorists and those who finance them so they will never again have the resources to commit such atrocities against the American people as we experienced on September 11."

Co-lead counsel for the lawsuit is attorney Allen Gerson, one of the attorneys who negotiated a $2.7 billion settlement between the Libyan government and families of 270 people killed when Pam Am Flight 103 was blown up over Scotland in 1988.

Among the allegations in the complaint, said attorney Ron Motley, are that certain members of the Saudi royal family have been active supporters of and helped fund al Qaeda and bin Laden.

The attorneys and investigators were able to obtain, through French intelligence, the translation of a secretly recorded meeting between representatives of bin Laden and three Saudi princes in which they sought to pay him hush money to keep him from attacking their enterprises in Saudi Arabia, Motley said.

Burnett's father in law, Thomas E. Burnett Sr., who also spoke at the news conference, said the group was "taking unprecedented legal action against those whose money financed the unspeakable evil that occurred on that tragic day."

Matt Sellitto, whose 23-year-old son Matthew died at the World Trade Center, told reporters: "His loss is incomprehensible to me. My heart continues to ache and will ache for the rest of my life."

"If the odds are stacked against us, we will beat them," Sellitto said. "And we will pursue this action until justice is served and terrorism is stopped."

Matthew Sellitto worked at the Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage house on the 105th floor of One World Trade Center.
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They should pick up some guns, fly over there and find the bastard instead of demanding money they aren't going to get...

Do you think everyone who was involved in act of Terrorism/War gets money for their loss. No. Just think if we paid everyone who lossed something in Terrorism/War we would be in major debt. And if we sue other countries for what their citizens done, thats just as ludacris.

Now, i think they are getting like some stuck-up athletes. That's my opinion

Um...well after the acts happened, there were relief funds set up to help people...what the hell else do they need? I'm sure they got all the money needed.

What about military personell killed, there families dont recieve vast amounts of money. The 9/11 families while i feel very sorry for them, are now just using the tragedy to get money :-?

I don't think they should get that much money, their family memeber(s) that was lost was just an ordinary person in the wrong place at the wrong time. They pretty much won't be getting a trillion, the U.S. government doesn't really have that much to give to them. Guess if they win it will show up in our taxes.

They aren't suing the U.S. the suing Bin Laden's family.

[quote="Low spark":ab04b]They aren't suing the U.S. the suing Bin Laden's family.[/quote:ab04b]

Oh....The Bin Laden family has 1 trillion dollars?

[quote=Sniped]Oh....The Bin Laden family has 1 trillion dollars?[/quote:d0831]

It's not about the money, it about some lawyer's playing the victims so they can make name for themselves and get a litte richer. hmm...... I hope I don't so too cynical.

I deserve to be on the wall :cry:

Sounds like money-grabbers to me, but who am I to judge since I'm not in their situation? With that said, will ever see other victims of suffering being able to sue? Probably not since they lack the social capital.

Isn't it 116 Trillion Dollars? I just noticed CNN.com changed the amount.

getting rich will make all your problems go away :roll: greedy bastards, if it was really about the people they lost they would be hunting bin laden themselves.

My major question is, hasn't the US government already closed down suspected terrorist accounts and taken the cash? Arguing that you're doing it to get at the terrorists is thus a poor point.