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“Free pass for terrorists” as US court cancels $654 million verdict against PLO

Sep 1, 2016 12:29 pm By Robert Spencer

“The United States government had said last year that the case threatened to financially destabilize the Palestinian government and harm the region.” Oh my, we can’t have a “destabilized” “Palestinian” government. It might start lobbing rockets at Israeli civilians and calling for genocide on its TV channel!

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“‘Free Pass for Terrorists’ as US Court Cancels $654 Million Verdict Against PLO,” Associated Press, September 1, 2016:

The decision to cancel the verdict against the PLO provides “a free pass for terrorists” to kill Americans overseas, said an attorney for families of victims.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a $654 million jury verdict against the Palestine Liberation Organization for terrorist attacks in the early 2000s in Israel that killed or wounded Americans, saying the U.S. courts lack jurisdiction because the attacks were random and not aimed at the United States.

The United States government had said last year that the case threatened to financially destabilize the Palestinian government and harm the region.

Wednesday’s written decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the attacks in 2002 and 2004 that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more were “unquestionably horrific.” But the three-judge panel said they were fortuitous and “not expressly aimed at the United States.”

The decision, written by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl, who was sitting on the court temporarily, said offices maintained by the PLO and Palestinian Authority in Washington were used to promote the Palestinian cause in speeches and media appearances and to retain a lobbying firm. It said those purposes were insufficient to give U.S. courts jurisdiction over the groups for random attacks abroad.

“It’s a very surprising ruling,” said Robert Tolchin, an attorney for families of Americans killed or injured in the attacks.

He said the decision provides “a free pass for terrorists” to kill Americans overseas. Lawyers, he added, were considering appeals options.

Gassan A. Baloul, an attorney for the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization, said: “We are very gratified that the court fully accepted our clients’ consistent position that the PA and the PLO are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States courts in these matters.”

The ruling pertained to a February 2015 jury award of $218 million to Americans in a case that relied on the Anti-Terrorism Act, which allows victims of U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations to seek compensation for pain and suffering, loss of earnings and other hardship. The award was automatically tripled under the law….

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  1. Angemon says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    November can’t come soon enough…

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 1:03 pm

      It could be Hillary

      BTW
      When Hillary asked her psychiatrist if there were any way that she could overcome her fears that people everywhere hate her, her psychiatrist replied, “I am sorry, although I would like to cure you of that phobia, I cannot help you because I cannot stand to be in the same room with you one moment longer.”

      • biff says

        Sep 1, 2016 at 1:07 pm

        It’s fairly safe to say that if Trump wins Obama will find a way invalidate the election.

      • Angemon says

        Sep 14, 2016 at 1:16 pm

        XD

    • jOE says

      Sep 2, 2016 at 3:00 am

      HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THAT IT HAS BEEN “EXTREMELY QUIET” OVER THERE? IT’S LIKE HAVING KIDZ IN YOUR HOME! EVEN IF YOU HEAR BICKERING… ALL IS WELL! ~~BUT WHEN THEY GROW QUIET… ~~ LOOK OUT!! ~~I’M CALLING THE THIRD INTAFADA HERE, RIGHT NOW!

      • TR says

        Sep 2, 2016 at 12:48 pm

        @Joe, All are standing down as Trojan Horse Airlines fills the ranks of The Left’s Solidarity, radical Islamist Brothers get ready to fulfill their part in the “Revolution”. The PLO alliance has been a long time relationship with this Administration. “United in Struggle” as they have called this contraindicated combination of terror. The Left will see the Jihadist turn on them in the future, should they successfully conquer the USA. The two ideologies cannot coexist!

  2. Jay Boo says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    Americans were killed.
    However, because the attacks were not aimed at the United States, their right to sue is nullified by court out of political concern for ‘Palestinian’ government.

    • Dan says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 2:14 pm

      Then why aren’t country’s citizens, besides Americans and Israelis, ever specifically named.

      You never hear “We killed some Lesser Satan’s, i.e. Canadians, Germans, Japanese.”

      I see Muslims burning only American and Israeli flags.

      Maybe they’ve burned British and French flags occasionally, but I’ve never see it yet.

      Any attack on an American, or Israeli, citizen, by a Muslim, can be specifically taken as an attack against those countries.

      Case closed.

  3. abel & solomon says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    Islamic Apocalypse! that’s where we are heading. Here’s an excerpt from The Undoing:Islam by its own words, the amazing free e-book that’s turning heads in some high places. Get your copy or read it online here;- http://abelandsolomon.simplesite.com/424568444 , for the bigger picture read our full length book entitled Islamic Apocalypse;- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AS09LYW

    A World Caliphate
    Surveys have consistently shown that a clear majority of Muslims around the world want to live under a Caliphate governed by Sharia Law. In Europe, 65% of Muslims immigrants thought Islamic rules were more important than the laws of the country they were living in. Every day the news media carry stories of the Islamic State beheading enemy fighters, brutal executiing gays, enslaving and raping non-Muslim women and more. Thousands of Muslim volunteers from around the globe have rushed to be part of this new Caliphate. The Islamic State openly tries to emulate Mohammed’s original Islam. This is not surprising given the millions of dollars of oil revenue that Muslim countries have invested around the world in building mosques and funding preachers who are actually just spreading true Mohammedan Islam. The ultimate aim of Islam is to bring the whole world under Islamic government and Sharia law, to be governed by the Koran.

    666 – The Mark of the Beast
    The Book of Revelation (13:15) says that the False Prophet causes those who will not worship the image of the Beast to be killed. Isn’t that what the Koran does; (9:5); “Kill the unbelievers…”? Are you aware of any other religion which orders its followers to kill everyone else? Revelation (20:4) even says the Christian martyrs will be “beheaded”, which is what the Koran commands in verse (8:12) “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads… ” Another clue to the identity of the Beast comes from Revelation verses (13:16-18); “Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the Beast, for it is the multitude of a man and its number is 666”. The Greek symbols for 666 were handwritten on St John’s original manuscript of the book as well as in early copies such as the Codex Vaticanus and they are uncannily similar to the Arabic word “Bismillah” meaning “in the name of Allah”. In fact, the handwritten Greek symbols are its mirror image accompanied by two crossed swords, a symbol for both Islam and jihad. Google “666 Allah” and see!

    World War III and Satan’s Throne
    It seems like the Apocalypse is very near, an end time prophecy that is materialising now talks about Iraq, Isaiah (13:16) says; “Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes; their houses will be looted, and their wives raped.” This is exactly what the Islamic State have been doing. We also now know from recently discovered documents that both Al Qaeda and the Islamic State have deliberately sought to provoke a worldwide military conflict between Islam and the rest of the world. There are a number of Islamic nations too which are being driven by Apocalyptic theology. These Muslims deeply believe that it is their duty to Allah to push the world towards a final great Armageddon; “Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; rouse the warriors; let all the men of war advance and attack! …Let the nations be roused…. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.” (Joel 3:9,12,14)

    Armageddon; the Valley of Decision
    Indeed, we are already in that war, it is wrongly called the “war on terror” but it really is a sort of war between Islam and the “West”. As the true Islam of Mohammed and his Koran are the very root of this “terror”, (and don’t forget that over 95% of all terrorism in the world is Islamist), we are currently in a World War III of ideas and ideals under another name. A spiritual and intellectual war of ideas and ideals. But a physical one too.

    • DefenderofIslm says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 3:41 pm

      Very few people believe your on what you say about Islam.

  4. biff says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    Obama father was a Muslim
    His Grandfather was a Muslim
    His step-father was a Muslim
    He went to a Muslim school
    His name is Muslim

    Of course he’s letting them off the hook.

    They are his people unlike the America public.

    • Aussirick says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      biff, the old saying is still true, looks like a duck, walks like a duck quacks like a duck ………………..?

    • linnte says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 1:57 pm

      Ya know what absolutely amazes me Biff? Obama’s NAME is clearly Islamic, yet it NEVER occurred to Americans, EVEN ME, that he was Muslim. That is how solidly Islam has its talons sunk into American Politics! How the HECK did a Muslim get into the White House? We were so enthralled by his taqyyia and his smile. I remember being so excited about his winning his first election! Not so much the second. Now I wish I had done my research before voting.

      I even remember first hearing his name, I said to my friend who was talking about him, “you mean Obama Bin Ladin?”, which angered my friend! Americans need to learn about ISLAM! That will prevent another Muslim from having any power in any place in Government.

      • DefenderofIslm says

        Sep 1, 2016 at 3:45 pm

        Our president isn’t than moslim. He is than Christian.

        • Screeminmeeme says

          Sep 2, 2016 at 8:37 am

          Obama’s profession of being a Christian was done out of political expediency. He may claim to be a follower of Christ but all of his words and actions say otherwise. In an interview with the Chicago Sun Times about his ‘Christian faith’, Obama denied the basic tenets of the faith…said he wasn’t sure if there was a heaven or a hell…and then contradicted Christ by saying that Jesus is just ‘one of many ways’. Jesus proclaimed that HE was the only ‘Way’ (Jn 14:6)

          Jesus also taught that one can identify His disciples by the love they have for the brethren. (Jn 13:35). Obama has shown that he couldn’t care less about the millions of Christians in the ME who have/are being persecuted by the Islamic state, and in other Muslim countries throughout the world. While advancing Islam, he has implemented anti-Christian policies in the US in an effort to marginalize Christianity and its influence on our culture, and lied about Islam having had great impact on the founding of our country.

          Obama is a phony…a poser…..who has been promoting supremacist Islam since he slithered into the Oval Office on Jan 20, 2009. He an enemy of the United States and an adversary of Jesus Christ.

      • Lesley says

        Sep 1, 2016 at 5:05 pm

        @Linnte: I voted for Obama, and I deeply regret doing so.

        I thought that Obama having had experience with Islam growing up would equip him to protect us against the threat of terrorism.

        I lived close enough to the World Trade Center on 9/11 that my roommate filmed tower 2 collapsing from our neighbor’s roof, but I didn’t really understand Islam until the Islamic State established a caliphate and I began to research what Islam was all about.

        When I voted for Obama, I still believed that moderate Islam was a real thing:-/ Now, I know better…

        • Screeminmeeme says

          Sep 2, 2016 at 8:48 am

          Great. Now if we can only convince the 300 million who remain ignorant (sometimes willingly) when it comes to Islam.

          The enemy of Islam is truth, so we need to get the truth out to the rest of the country. At great risk, self-less people like Robert Spencer, Dr Bill Warner, Pam Geller, Raymond Ibraham, David Wood, and Brigitte Gabrielle are doing yeoman’s work in countering the propaganda that is spewed daily from Islam’s apologists….and at great risk.

          They all need our prayers.

  5. RCCA says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    If Iran could keep a lawsuit open from 1979, collecting interest, there’s no reason this could not have been shelved until some future date when payment is feasible.

    You just know the Pali’s will brag about how this ruling proves they did nothing wrong.

    • biff says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 1:19 pm

      This is politics not law.

      The American justice system has never shied away from chasing people beyond it’s borders unless ordered not to.

      That PLO probably gave the Clinton Foundation $10.

  6. Mark A says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    Hopefully this goes to the US Supreme Court.

    But if Hillary Clinton is elected in November she will undoubtedly appoint judges who support rulings like this to the Supreme Court.

  7. linnte says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    Maybe Israel could do the Law suit? Now that I think about it, why doesn’t Israel sue the pants off PLO for all it’s crimes against Israel?

  8. duh swami says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 8:08 am

    ‘Me Sioux Indian, but no collect’…

    • jOE says

      Sep 2, 2016 at 7:16 pm

      THIS WILL NOT BE NOTICED BY MANY!: IT’S BEEN TOO QUIET THERE. IF YOU’VE HAD KIDZ, YOU KNOW… WHEN IT GETS QUIET… IT’S TIME TO GO CHECK WHAT THEY’RE UP TO! A THIRD INTAFADA IS ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY! HATE THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN, BUT… U’VE BEEN FOREWARNED!

  9. Manuele says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    “US court cancels $654 million verdict against PLO” AND WHAT WILL OBUM BUM DO? HE WILL SECRETLY CHANNEL THAT MONEY TO THE PLO. THE DEMOCRAPS KNOW THAT FULL WELL WHAT OBUM BUM IS CAPABLE OF. O’BUMBUM IS WELL KNOWN ON THE SNEAKY, CONNIVING AND LYING IN THE WAY HE AND THE DEMOCRAPS HAVE BEEN HANDLING BUSINESS ESPECIALLY WHERE THE MUSLIMS AND THEIR MURDEROUS PSYCHOTIC BEHAVIOUR

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