Clearly, this is an Islamophobe court decision. It is absurdly obvious that these courts are working hand in hand with the Jewish lobby. I hope Jimmy Carter, the Sunday school teacher, is watching this and uses his Saudi money to overturn this islamophobe decision.
/sarcasm

Posted by: Crusader at January 30, 2007 6:50 PM

Saudi money goes through a Jordanian Bank (to conceal it's origin?) where it ends up in the hands of suicide bombers' families. How can that be the jurisdiction of a US Court? And how will a judgement be enforced? Shouldn't the Saudi's be ultimately liable for damages? There are many unanswered questions here, but I'm impressed nonetheless that it's moving forward.

Posted by: Xero G at January 30, 2007 7:06 PM

Wasn't Saddam Hussain doing the same...awarding $25,000 to families of vaporized virgin-seekers? I never saw that case in US courts.

Posted by: Xero G at January 30, 2007 7:13 PM

German moonbats shill for ex-Taliban:

http://sheikyermami.com/2007/01/31/germany-moonbats-support-would-be-taliban/

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at January 30, 2007 7:26 PM

"vaporized virgin-seekers"
Hahahahaha
Thats like blown up Bush-haters, creamated Christian killers, blasted boy buggers, jacked-up Jew killers, etc.

Posted by: guide inside at January 30, 2007 7:37 PM

s_sgt7:

I believe Crusader was being sarcastic. The problem with the satire on this site is that outside the scope of this site, people say these things seriously.

Posted by: JSobieski at January 30, 2007 8:35 PM

This is a good thing.

Slowly these lawsuits will drain middle east investments in the United States as they are seized to satisfy the lawsuits.

It will be amusing when entire banks are seized as the results of some Palestinian blowing himself up.

Posted by: credit man at January 30, 2007 9:30 PM

The Saudi’s are worried about this too. A somewhat dated link from a Harvard ‘consultant’ (on the payroll) is interesting:

Many Saudi investors are also concerned about becoming victims of lawsuits. Saudi and other foreign investors with no complicity whatsoever with 9/11 or links to terrorism nevertheless perceive the aggressive efforts of an army of U.S. lawyers and entrenched interest groups to "link and accuse" foreigners in a broad net of litigation.

http://www.saudi-american-forum.org/Newsletters/SAF_Essay_22.htm

Posted by: pez at January 30, 2007 10:23 PM

Pez,

It couldn't happen to a nicer group. And hooray for these lawsuits. Maybe if our lawyers are busy going after Saudi $$$ (think of the retainer fees?!!!) they'll leave the rest of us alone.

Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at January 30, 2007 10:53 PM

Attention, all class-action lawyers! Forget about suits against the tobacco companies. That's now penny-ante stuff. The Saudis have some real money.
Of course, it might be hazardous duty. The wallaby chief muftis just might issue a fatwad against anyone trying to chisel money out of their buddies, the Saudi royals. A price of, say, $25 million on the head of the plaintiff's attorney might encourage him to not pursue the litigation. On the other hand, think of the lawyers' share of just one favorable verdict for the plaintiffs, with damages of, say $50 billion. I believe the lawyers usually get about 1/3, and with $16.7 billion one could buy some world-class bodyguards.

Posted by: ebonystone at January 30, 2007 10:55 PM

isabella
Didn't mean to copy your remarks. Yours got posted while I was still composing mine.

Posted by: ebonystone at January 30, 2007 11:01 PM

"The wallaby chief muftis just might issue a fatwad... I believe the lawyers usually get about 1/3, and with $16.7 billion one could buy some world-class bodyguards."

Or at least a couple of tanks and some machine guns!

Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at January 30, 2007 11:02 PM

Ebonystone,

Honey, great minds think alike! No harm done!

Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at January 30, 2007 11:04 PM

This is off topic but must be asked.

Why is it everytime some schmuck converts to islime the following occurs?

1. The urge to kill all non-muslims.
2. The urge to travel to a foreign nation to wage jihad against US troops.
3. The total collapse of ALL basic human hygiene care for their bodies.

Desire to kill, curse, leave your body to rot and decay due to lack of bathing.

DEMONIC POSSESSION MAY BE A POSSIBILITY.

Anyone ever watch The Haunting series on Discovery Channel?

You can also read this in the Bible as characteristics of evil.

Islam=evil.

Posted by: Hungarian Crusader at January 30, 2007 11:25 PM

Does anyone have an update on this:

August 16, 2002 Posted: 8:16 AM EDT (1216 GMT)

"It's up to us to bankrupt the terrorists," said Deena Burnett, whose husband was aboard the hijacked Flight 93 that crashed September 11.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Acknowledging the odds are against them, relatives of the September 11 attacks filed a 15-count, $116 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.

It would be interesting to see how far the plaintiffs might have got - especially since many similar cases have been launched in the UK over 7/7.

Dominic.

Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem at January 30, 2007 11:29 PM

Obviously, we cannot bankrupt terrorists since they mainly rely upon the 'black' economy - an economic state parallel to the official economy which, at the last count was valued at a sum which, in 2005, was roughly equivalent to 40% of the world's economic activity (the highest estimated level since 1740AD).

But, and most importantly, we can make life economically exceedingly difficult for the terrorist by invoking every single little law against them - as they are fighting a war of attrition against us then so can we, at least on this front, fight a similar war against them.

However, it has to be borne in mind that the vast bulk of illegal economic activity emanates from the psuedo-states in the islamic corner of the world - China's contribution pales into insignificance when viewed against the figures for Pakistan, Bahrein, Kuwait, Indonesia and Bangladesh which, between them, account for 90% of that 40%.

There are also worries related to trade and free movement. See:

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/01/links_between_terrorism_drug_t.php

but you will note, I hope, that the worries relate, in the main, to the usual dishonest, cheating and lieing moslems and seldom to the world's poor citizens such as those from the Congo or from the deprived areas of South America.

Economic warfare is being waged against us. Of that there is no doubt. Recently it has been estimated that over 75% of the free worlds' charitable contributions are spent in the developed and semi-developed psuedo-states within the islamic sphere of influence. Less than a quarter of our donations are actually spent helping the truly poor. Most of our charitable organisations have been hijacked by professional moslem whingers masquerading as caring human beings. Challenge your favourite charity's committee to provide a detailed breakdown of the charity's expenditure - particularly since the UN estimates that some 30% of all western charitable contributions ends up being spent on arms.

Need I say more?

Dominic.

Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem at January 30, 2007 11:53 PM

Sharia Law and British muslims survey video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH_0SlaD4O4

Posted by: kasper1062 at January 31, 2007 3:34 AM

Slightly off-topic, but the BBC is now reporting:

Eight people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Birmingham after a "significant" operation involving police and security service MI5.

A number of addresses in the city have been sealed off after morning raids.

Security sources have told the BBC the alleged plot would not have involved mass casualties but marked "a different approach to terrorism in the UK"...

Full story at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6315989.stm

Posted by: The Northumbrian at January 31, 2007 4:06 AM

HUNGARIAN;If cleanliness is next to godliness,it only makes sense that dirtiness is next to devilishness. NORTHUMBRIAN; I read the BBC article from above,and the posting from the BBC to jihadwatch and felt that the Brits are finally getting serious. I'm crossing my fingers any way. I saw Obsession tonight and was disgusted to see (older footage) mobs of British muslims chanting death to the UK. Got to run,no time to check typeos.

Posted by: mustang65 at January 31, 2007 5:01 AM

I was surprised to hear this interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali on our national broadcaster here in Australia, if only because the interviewer Phillip Adams is a barking lefty (maybe not a total moonbat though going by this)Good to see her message getting out there anyway.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2007/1836668.htm

Posted by: savitch at January 31, 2007 5:36 AM

Good weapon: Breaking the banks of Terrorism.

I'd like to know how they can afford their cashe of weapons? If we can cut that off, it'll certainly slow down extremitism. Can't blow yourself up with a fire-cracker anyway.

Posted by: Jeff at January 31, 2007 6:34 AM

Seizing their bank assets makes no sense if we are just going to keep giving them money and arms through government-funded foreign aid programs. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for it but it's like we are simply taking it out of one of their accounts and putting it right back into another of their one of their accounts. If we are going to rip out the financial guts of Islam, we have to stop giving aid (not to mention weapons) to organizations like the Palestinian Authority for more failed attempts at nation building. In fact, we should immediately cease all foreign aid programs (including so-called "humanitarian aid" for people who hate us and always will no matter what we do) to moslems everywhere and let them wallow in their own unsanitized dungheaps until the cholera and dysentary kills them all.

Posted by: A.I. Steamroller at January 31, 2007 7:02 AM

OT but good news

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law, Jamal Khalifa, has been killed in Madagascar
http://www.civoc.com/society/2007/01/31/al-qaeda-leader-osama-bin-ladens-brother-in-law-jamal-khalifa-has-been-killed-in-madagascar/

Posted by: Arnie at January 31, 2007 7:17 AM

Obviously, we cannot bankrupt terrorists since they mainly rely upon the 'black' economy - an economic state parallel to the official economy which, at the last count was valued at a sum which, in 2005, was roughly equivalent to 40% of the world's economic activity (the highest estimated level since 1740AD).

Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 30, 2007 11:53 PM

Absolutely right, together with international crime sydicates and corruption, bribing leaders of every govt, they keep on going, without worrying to much.

Posted by: Arnie at January 31, 2007 7:29 AM

"Good weapon: Breaking the banks of Terrorism.

I'd like to know how they can afford their cashe of weapons? "

.....The money comes from the various oil producing Muslim countries...Terrorism is state sponsored activity.

Posted by: exsgtbrown at January 31, 2007 7:44 AM

Quran top selling book in Denmark

BERLIN: The holy book of Islam, the Quran, has become a top selling book in Denmark one year after the blasphemous caricature crisis shook up the Danish society and the Muslim world, the Munich-based Focus news magazine reported on Monday. The Quran was ranked second during the important Christmas book sales period. Buyers of the Quran include many young Muslims who grew up in Denmark but do not speak Arabic. The Danish government has stepped up efforts in recent months to reach out to the Muslim community by hosting international Islam conferences and holding inter-religious dialogue seminars. SANA

Posted by: Arnie at January 31, 2007 7:55 AM

I don't know, shall I laugh or cry?
Wouldn't it be much better to send them into that direction instead of changing toilets?

Toilets in one London prison are getting a face-lift — or rather, a change in direction — to accommodate Muslim inmates who can't use them while facing Mecca, a British newspaper reported.

Government officials ackowledged using tax dollars for the changes to the facilities, but maintained that moving the toilets was part of "on-going refurbishment," according to an article in The Sun.

Posted by: Arnie at January 31, 2007 8:26 AM

Well, since Muslims have perfected their own form of word-of-mouth underground banking system, there's no way to completely stop the funding of Islamic terrorism by taking down false charities and crooked public banking system, but at least this is a step in the right direction.

Posted by: Foehammer at January 31, 2007 9:11 AM

Just emulating the "perfect man" as preached in
mosques in this country.

http://www.express.co.uk/news_detail_pa.html?sku=1170244380466829-H3

More votes for the BNP.

Posted by: aladdinsane57 at January 31, 2007 9:26 AM

ENGLAND : the muslism council indirectly admitted it wants sharia in the country

The leader of the conservative british party, Mr Cameron, said yesterday that the islamic jihadist who want to impose sharia and separate food for muslims are like the extremists of the nationalist British party.

In response, the secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain - moderate, according to the MSM - said this comparison between "dominant muslims organizations and fascism was disgraceful for muslims."

Yes, you read well. The Muslim Council of Britain aknowledged that the "dominant muslims organizations in the country want to impose sharia and separate food for muslims in Britain."

I call this a declaration of war.

The story is here : http://www.freerepublic.com/^http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdrzz.over-blog.org%2Farticle-5469474.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Posted by: DRZZ at January 31, 2007 9:28 AM

Some comments coming from France

The muslims faithful followers told me that it will be the duty of the future muslim state of France to decide wether to impose the sharia or not, and while waiting it was no question of replacing the police forces. [...] If the risk is not present today, one might wonder if the French muslims would impose the sharia over the country if they had the possibility, or may we have an idea of the desire of this application ? In 1989, after the Rushdie's affair, the investigators of the SOFRES [French main pollster] published a survey (March 28-29, 1989) that concluded a good half of the muslims would not follow if were about to restore the sharia in all its rigor."

(“What is dangerous in Islam”, Herve Bleuchot, in “Islam in France”, under the direction of Bruno Etienne, Paris, Editions of the French National Council of Scientific Research, 1990, pp. 207-208)

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdrzz.over-blog.org%2Farticle-5469474.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Seventeen years later, guess where is France heading ?

Posted by: DRZZ at January 31, 2007 9:36 AM

In the military, it's said that "amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics". That's because generally the primary factor determining victory is which side managed to get more men, ammo, fuel and supplies to the battle.

In terrorism, it's finance rather than logistics. Amateurs worry about al-Queda, when you should really be paying more attention to the Golden Chain organization that's providing the money (see also here)

Osama is just the liaison between the money men and the terrorist operational command. Take him out, and the money men will find another (and most likely have found others by now who will stay more discrete). But if you focus on the money men, and take them out, then the terrorists have no funding and little ability to operate.

Find out who is financing the radical Imams and madrassas, take them out, and you have taken out the incubators of extremism

Posted by: PapaBear at January 31, 2007 9:43 AM

France is heading straight into the 'Enemies of Freedom' slot. How ironic is that?

Posted by: Foehammer at January 31, 2007 9:44 AM

DRZZ, regarding the situation in France: the objective is to turn the immigrant areas into "no-go" zones for French authorities. The purpose is to allow those areas to be places where terrorists can securely rest, plan operations, hold meetings, and conduct training without fear of arrest or surveillance

Posted by: PapaBear at January 31, 2007 9:48 AM

PapaBear, you are totally right.

In november 2006, a year after the riots, the French ministry of the Interior avised the police NOT to go in the banlieues, in order to appease the rioters.

France's policy has always been a mix of cowardice and felony.

Posted by: DRZZ at January 31, 2007 9:51 AM

Toilets in one London prison are getting a face-lift — or rather, a change in direction — to accommodate Muslim inmates who can't use them while facing Mecca, a British newspaper reported.

Posted by: Arnie

Islamic teachings are no end of amusement. To them it's more disrespectful to islam to crap facing Mecca, than it is to turn around and more or less aim the crap at Mecca. Truly their ways of thinking are completely topsy-turvy. the islamic world is an insane asylum run by the inmates.
Changing the topic a bit, just how does one figure the direction of Mecca? For example, Cuba is on pretty much the same latitude as Mecca, so in Cuba, do believers face due east, along the line of latitude, in prayer; or do they face in the direction of shortest distance to Mecca, i.e. in the great-circle direction, somewhere to the north-east?

Posted by: ebonystone at January 31, 2007 10:05 AM

"Muslims Outraged at Outrageous Outrageousness
*By O. Samabin Laden roving reporter"

posted by Lame Cherry

Bwahahahaha!

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.

Posted by: Stand fast in the liberty at January 31, 2007 10:35 AM