Iran Told to Pay $10.5 Billion to Sept. 11 Kin, Insurers

[Hamartia Antidote]

Calm down...it isn't going to have much standing since they were only found guilty because they didn't enter a plea.

If some case is targeting me in say Botswana and I don't show up of course I may be found guilty.

 

[Indika]

Iran Told to Pay $10.5 Billion to Sept. 11 Kin, Insurers

Iran was ordered by a U.S. judge to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to families of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and to a group of insurers.

U.S. District Judge George Daniels in New York issued a default judgment Wednesday against Iran for $7.5 billion to the estates and families of people who died at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It includes $2 million to each estate for the victims’ pain and suffering plus $6.88 million in punitive damages.

Daniels also awarded $3 billion to insurers including Chubb Ltd. that paid property damage, business interruption and other claims.

Earlier in the case, Daniels found that Iran had failed to defend claims that it aided the Sept. 11 hijackers and was therefore liable for damages tied to the attacks. Daniels’s ruling Wednesday adopts damages findings by a U.S. magistrate judge in December. While it is difficult to collect damages from an unwilling foreign nation, the plaintiffs may try to collect part of the judgments using a law that permits parties to tap terrorists’ assets frozen by the government.

The case is In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 03-cv-09848, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).



I would call it modern thieves .... while the hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda. 15 of the 19 were citizens of Saudi Arabia. The others were from the United Arab Emirates Egypt and Lebanon.

Easy way to make money. Iran should also pay money mumbai 26/11 victims bcos all the attackers came from pakistan which is neighboring country of Iran.

 

[Serpentine]

WTF Iran have to do with 9/11?

You don't expect U.S to condemn or take money from its terrorist allies e.g Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc, do you? Iran is the perfect bogeyman, though they are not going to receive shit.

 

[alarabi]

Iran was ordered by a U.S. judge to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to families of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and to a group of insurers.

U.S. District Judge George Daniels in New York issued a default judgment Wednesday against Iran for $7.5 billion to the estates and families of people who died at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It includes $2 million to each estate for the victims’ pain and suffering plus $6.88 million in punitive damages.

Daniels also awarded $3 billion to insurers including Chubb Ltd. that paid property damage, business interruption and other claims.

Earlier in the case, Daniels found that Iran had failed to defend claims that it aided the Sept. 11 hijackers and was therefore liable for damages tied to the attacks. Daniels’s ruling Wednesday adopts damages findings by a U.S. magistrate judge in December. While it is difficult to collect damages from an unwilling foreign nation, the plaintiffs may try to collect part of the judgments using a law that permits parties to tap terrorists’ assets frozen by the government.

The case is In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 03-cv-09848, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

Bloomberg

 

[Solomon2]

Previously:

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US court declares Iran helped with 9/11 attack


That was an act of war, much like the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, and prompted the United States to go to war with the Taliban in Afghanistan after the Taliban refused to expel Al-Qaeda. But there has been no talk about going to war with Iran in the week since the court decision.

Judge George B. Daniels of the US District Court for Southern New York issued a 53-page ruling that concluded: “Iran provided material support and resources to Al-Qaeda for acts of terrorism, including the extrajudicial killing of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks.… Such material support or resources took the form of, inter alia, planning, funding, facilitation of the hijackers’ travel and training, and logistics, and included the provision of services, money, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, and/or transportation.”

The decision came just weeks after another federal judge in a different district court ruled that Iran had a major hand in the earlier bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Surprisingly, there has been almost no public reaction in the United States and no calls for military action against the Islamic Republic. None of the Republican presidential candidates, most of whom have been falling all over one another to appear tougher than the others in confronting Iran, have even mentioned either of these court decisions.

Both cases came to the courts as suits against the Islamic Republic seeking financial awards for what the plaintiffs asserted was Iran’s role in killing relatives of the plaintiffs. As is Iran’s practice in such “victims of terrorism” suits, the Tehran government never responded and made no effort to challenge the evidence against it.

The allegation of Iranian involvement in the 9/11 attacks is not new. But the court’s decision is the first official imprimatur given the allegation. Evidence of Iranian involvement surfaced just as the 9/11 Commission was finishing its work several years ago, so that commission did not accuse Iran of involvement.

Several people who worked for the commission were key witnesses in this month’s trial that resulted in Judge Daniels naming the Islamic Republic as providing key aid to Al-Qaeda for the attacks. Another key witness was Abolghasem Mesbahi, an Iranian defector who worked in the Intelligence Ministry until his 1996 defection and who has provided evidence in several cases about the regime’s resort to terrorism.

The plaintiffs sued for $100 million. Judge Daniels did not award any amount in his decision, but called for a separate hearing to determine an amount. In dozens of such “victims of terrorism” suits, Iran has been ordered to pay victims more than $2 billion.

Many analysts have dismissed talk of an Iranian link with Al-Qaeda because of Al-Qaeda’s strong anti-Shia history. But the court concluded that their shared animosity for the United States was even stronger and overcame their divisions.

The court said the linkage started in 1991 when the Sudanese politician and cleric Hassan at-Turabi actively sought to bridge that Sunni-Shia gap and hosted a visit to Sudan by an Iranian delegation led by then-President Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani. Over the coming months Iranian officials and Al-Qaeda met several times in Sudan and reached agreements on cooperation in their shared animosity for the United States and Israel.

The court decision goes on to detail meetings and linkages over the years, including Iran’s authorization for Al-Qaeda operatives—including at least eight of the 9/11 attack’s 19 hijackers—to cross Iran to Afghanistan without any visa stamps in their passports. Iranian stamps in the passports would have been a lightning rod when they sought entry to the United States.

In Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast rejected the court’s judgment. But he also conflated the court ruling and Obama Administration political policy, acting as if they were one and the same. He called the assertion of Iranian involvement in the 9/11 attacks “baseless,” and said, “With the repetition of such claims to back its political aims, the United States is putting the peace and security of the world in jeopardy.”

Mehman-Parast said it was not Iran that supported Al-Qaeda, but the United States. He repeated Iran’s long-time assertion that Washington helped found Al-Qaeda and funded it from the beginning.

 

[mohsen]

Their goal is not money, but resuming Iranophobia policies, just in line with previous sanction (ghost) which was visa ban for those who travel to Iran.
still wanna fill your A-380 & A-350s?

 

[Hack-Hook]

Their goal is not money, but resuming Iranophobia policies, just in line with previous sanction (ghost) which was visa ban for those who travel to Iran.
still wanna fill your A-380 & A-350s?

Iranian pay several billion $ a year to foreign airlines , a majority of them will use Iranian airlines instead if you advertise such stories of how foreign airliners like Pegasus airlines treat iranian delicately and with subtlety
IranWire | Call for Turkey Travel Ban Following Iranian Airport Assault

 

[fatman17]

justice is blind. it was Saudis and Algerians who were involved in 911.

 

[HAIDER]

lolzz ...very strange judgement...may be some frozen asset of Shah era sitting in New York...may be after nuclear agreement,suppose to be return.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

This Thread should be posted in "Stupid & Funny" section.

Or maybe we should demand damages from the OP for posting something which is utterly nonsense

my god I have read some BS but this news takes the BS to another level.
if Trump can top the US opinion polls then this judgement is definitely possible from a US judge
by the way do you know? when Israel attacked USS Liberty then some geniuses in America decided to Nuke Egypt

You don't expect U.S to condemn or take money from its terrorist allies e.g Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc, do you? Iran is the perfect bogeyman, though they are not going to receive shit.

I think you should give them shit.
it will go down well there . looking at the prospects of Trumps becoming president means your shit will be well received

 

[AmirPatriot]

Relax bro ! Nobody can touch Iran's national (erstwhile frozen) accounts. That would set a bad precedent.

It actually has happened before...

Or maybe we should demand damages from the OP for posting something which is utterly nonsense

my god I have read some BS but this news takes the BS to another level.
if Trump can top the US opinion polls then this judgement is definitely possible from a US judge
by the way do you know? when Israel attacked USS Liberty then some geniuses in America decided to Nuke Egypt


I think you should give them shit.
it will go down well there . looking at the prospects of Trumps becoming president means your shit will be well received

 

[VEVAK]

awww The hijackers were Saudi and Iran gets sued for it? LOL!

Iran needs to sue the U.S. for $1 Trillion USD for overthrow of Iran's democratically elected government

Iran then needs to sue the U.S. for $29 Billion for the shoot down of Iran Air flight 655 and the murder of 290 civilians

Iran then needs to sue the U.S. for $20 Billion for creating propaganda against Iran