Saudis' fail in bid to dismiss 9/11 lawsuit; Broad hunt for new evidence in Florida, elsewhere to begin soon



The twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center before they were destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo: Sander Lamme CC by 3.0.

By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org

In an enormous win for the survivors and relatives of the nearly 3,000 killed during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, a New York federal judge Thursday denied Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss their multi-billion-dollar civil lawsuit accusing the Kingdom of aiding and abetting al Qaeda.

Senior U.S. District Judge George Daniels, after more than a year spent thinking about it, issued his 45-page ruling allowing the 9/11 lawsuit to proceed and plaintiffs to try and prove their case at trial.

In a nutshell, the judge decided that Saudi Arabia and its Washington-based lawyers failed to meet their “ultimate burden of persuasion.” The Kingdom has long denied any involvement in the 9/11 attacks that took down the World Trade Center and heavily damaged the Pentagon.




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