By Morton Saulo
Victims of terrorist attacks on American embassies in Africa have filed a $40 billion lawsuit against the Republic of Sudan and the Islamic Republic of Iran for their complicity in the attack.
Mr Gavriel Mairone, counsel for the victims, announced that a lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in Federal District Court in Washington DC, on behalf of over 270 employees of the US government (and their family members) that were killed or seriously injured in the Al Qaeda suicide bombings against American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
On August 7, 1998, Al Qaeda perpetrated simultaneous suicide truck bombings on both embassies, killing 247 people and injuring more than 5,000.
Act amended
In January 2008, the US Federal Sovereign Immunity Act was amended to strip states supporting terrorism of immunity and grant employees and contractors of the United States government (in addition to US citizens) the right to sue in US federal court such states for damages resulting from terrorist attacks perpetrated anywhere in the world.
For the first time, survivors and family members of US government employees killed and maimed in the US Embassy bombings in Africa became eligible to seek compensation from the Republic of Sudan and the Islamic Republic of Iran in US federal court.
In December 2004, Mann & Mairone, together with other attorneys, filed an historic, multi-billion dollar lawsuit in US Federal court in New York against Arab Bank on behalf of over 2,000 victims of terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades and the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Subsequent to the filing of this lawsuit, the US government fined Arab Bank more than $20 million in connection with money laundering and terrorist financing.
Source: The Standard
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