Legal Opinion
Sisso v. Islamic Republic of Iran
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 23, 2006No. Civil Action 05-394(JDB)PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BATES, District Judge.
Plaintiffs in this civil action are the surviving husband and children of Rozana Sisso, a sixty-three-year-old woman who was killed in a terrorist bus bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel, on September 19, 2002. Defendants are the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security (“MOIS”), and Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, the jihadist Palestinian militia more commonly known as Hamas (hereinafter “Hamas”). The complaint alleges that each defendant was complicit in the bombing — a brazen, midday suicide attack purportedly carried out…
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