Legal Opinion
Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 v. Al Qaida
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 14, 2015No. 03-MDL-1570 (GBD)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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GEORGE B. DANIELS, District Judge.
In this vast multi-district litigation, Plaintiffs allege that hundreds of defendants sponsored and aided the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 by knowingly and intentionally providing financial and other material support to Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and its affiliated-terrorist organizations. One of the defendants, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Swailem (“Al-Swai-lem”), is the former President of both the Saudi Joint Relief Committee (“SJRC”) and the Saudi Red Crescent Society (“SRC”), two instrumentalities of the Saudi government that are immune from…
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