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9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia

• sn0v 13y ago
  This is the first I'm hearing of one country's citizens suing another country as a whole. How does it work?
  • jessedhillon 13y ago
    In the case of foreign debt, e.g. the case of Argentina and Elliot, the country's assets under US jurisdiction can be seized.
    • sn0v 13y ago
      Isn't the Saudi kingdom capable of hitting back in terms of oil supplies?
      • gte910h 13y ago
        No, oil is oil is oil, you'd have to blockade a country to stop it from getting oil in general, and oil from your wells just goes into a global pool.
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• error54 13y ago
  These people suing the Saudi Arabian government will be about as effective as the victims of last weeks drone strike[1] trying to sue the U.S. government. Even if the lawyers produce mountains of evidence that directly ties the Saudi Arabian government to the 9/11 attacks, who is going to enforce the ruling? The U.S. isn't going to strain relations with one of its few allies in the middle east just because some people want to capitalize on a tragedy. 1-http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/world/middleeast/drone-strike-in-yemen-hits-wedding-convoy-killing-11.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/world/middleeast/drone-str...