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dreamville-bg.livejournal.comIran 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."
I say good luck with that, bro. Perhaps Mexico will pay the bill. After all, it was Kenya that conducted the attacks, and Brazil that gave the go-ahead, after Spain said "do it", with Mongolia egging them on while the Koreans tricked them into doing so, all while Uganda organized everything behind the scenes, in the back of a van on a Moscow street at 12am on a moonlit New Zealand winter's night.
( A bit more seriously, though. )
"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."
I say good luck with that, bro. Perhaps Mexico will pay the bill. After all, it was Kenya that conducted the attacks, and Brazil that gave the go-ahead, after Spain said "do it", with Mongolia egging them on while the Koreans tricked them into doing so, all while Uganda organized everything behind the scenes, in the back of a van on a Moscow street at 12am on a moonlit New Zealand winter's night.
( A bit more seriously, though. )
