{"id":3057,"date":"2002-08-16T06:23:07","date_gmt":"2002-08-16T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2002-08-16T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2002-08-16T11:23:07","slug":"dont_fear_our_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/16\/dont_fear_our_b.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t fear our bombers …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… Fear our lawyers<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, relatives of hundreds killed in the attacks and some Sept. 11 survivors accused seven international banks operating mainly in the Middle East, eight Islamic foundations and charities, the government of Sudan and a number of individuals of helping fund terrorist activities.
\nThe lawsuit, filed by individuals from across the United States and at least six other countries, asked for damages exceeding one hundred trillion dollars. The lawyers said they were seeking “hundreds of billions” of dollars in damages.<\/p>\n

Remember, they didn’t nail Capone for murder … they nailed him for tax evasion. Go for the purse strings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… Fear our lawyers. In a civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, relatives of hundreds killed in the attacks and some Sept. 11 survivors accused seven international…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-11"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13017,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/15\/seeking_justice_from_just.html","url_meta":{"origin":3057,"position":0},"title":"Seeking justice from Justice","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Aug-08 7:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Given the failure of the Attorney General to follow up on the illegal politicization of attorney hiring at the Justice Dept (which included the odd statement for an Attorney General...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6187,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/29\/somewhere_kafka.html","url_meta":{"origin":3057,"position":1},"title":"Somewhere, Kafka is smiling","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Apr-04 9:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"How charmingly Orwellian: The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed yesterday that it filed a lawsuit three weeks ago challenging the FBI's methods of obtaining many business records, but the group...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9850,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/sigh_7.html","url_meta":{"origin":3057,"position":2},"title":"*SIGH*","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-06 10:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Words fail me. 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