USS Cole Families Seek Suit Rehearing

[nhboy]

"NORFOLK, Va. — Family members of the 17 sailors killed in the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen want to use a new federal law to reopen their lawsuit seeking more than $100 million in damages from Sudan.

A federal judge found last July that Sudan provided training and logistics that allowed al-Qaida terrorists to bomb the Norfolk-based Navy destroyer on Oct. 12, 2000.

However, while U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar ordered Sudan to pay about $8 million for lost wages and earnings potential, he said he was prohibited by law from awarding the families money for pain and suffering.

Lawyers for the families filed court papers last week asking Doumar to reopen the case. They cited the Justice for Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Act, signed by President Bush on Jan. 28, which allows terrorism victims to seek punitive damages for pain, suffering and emotional distress.

It provides relief for certain older terrorism-related cases, such as the one involving the Cole, as well as new cases. But it prohibits suits involving Iraq."

USS Cole Families Seek Suit Rehearing

 

[ImnoMensa]

This article says they were awarded 8 millions from Sudan, it doesnt say if they have ever seen any cash. The situation in Darfur has people sending money in there not out, so I doubt these people will ever see 100 million dollars.

 

[RadioPatrol]

I wish them luck, but really 100 Million from a poor ass country like Sudan ?

Like the Islamists in that country are going to pay one Dinar to US Families ...

 

[shygirlmd]

My husband knows someone who had a son killed on the Cole that day.

 

[vraiblonde]

This article says they were awarded 8 millions from Sudan, it doesnt say if they have ever seen any cash.

A US judge can award money all he wants, but Sudan is an independent country and isn't bound by the orders of some judge in the US. They'll just tell him to piss up a rope and go back about their business.

 

[Larry Gude]

If we took...

...care of our own, this type of nonsense would not be going on. We gonna sue Iraq on behalf of our dead and wounded? How about the Japanese?

With all the handing out of this, that and the other thing that goes on, quite often to people who, frankly, have done no more to 'deserve' it than breath the free air of being an American, perhaps we can find a way to take care of, as policy, those among us who put on a uniform and do a bit more than just talk about what is owed them?