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Family members 9/11 victims The court victory celebrated Wednesday, they said they took Saudi Arabia’s role in the 2001 terrorist attacks one step closer.
Brett Eagleson’s father, John, was killed in the attack, said at a press conference in New York City that the judge’s “historic, landmark decision” two weeks ago to hold a long lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government was based on “undefensible evidence.”
“At least 13 Saudi government officials are linked to the Islamic Affairs Department,” said Eagleson. “The support of the Islamic Affairs Department in Washington, D.C., is to their embassy in San Diego, the hijackers’ deputy, until the hijackers themselves. ”
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This photo was obtained on March 1, 2003 and shows the organizer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was on September 11, 2001, shortly after his arrest. (HO/AFP via Getty Image)
Eagleson also named two people he allegedly was part of the “pre-team” they sent Saudi government Al Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, murdered nearly 3,000 people. Saudi Arabia denied this claim.
“There has been 24 years of pain and pain and fighting for our families. What happened in this community, what happened in the United States that day. But what is happening right now and what has happened in the past 24 years is a hatred.”
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A woman etched a name on the wall of a swimming pool on the 9/11 Memorial Square at the World Trade Center site in New York on Monday, September 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Segar, Swimming Pool)
Judge George Daniels of southern New York said in a 45-page ruling that one could reasonably infer that two people knew they supported the hijacking of the planes that hijacked the deadly attack on the World Trade Center tower and the Pentagon. Daniels said the evidence also showed that the two were following instructions from senior Saudi embassy officials and the court had jurisdiction to review the merits of the plaintiffs’ claim that the Saudi government had helped plan the attack.
“At this stage of the lawsuit, certain disputed facts cannot be resolved, as weighing the evidence or evaluating the credibility of witnesses needs to occur in trial,” the judge wrote. “Nevertheless, the entire body of undisputed facts and the preliminary assessment of certain disputed facts by the court is sufficient to lead the court to conclude that it is appropriate to exercise subject jurisdiction here.”
Daniels’ decision means that the two decades of cases could be trial, which Eagleson brought during a press conference.
The tribute of light rose up the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan. (AP)
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“That’s what we all know for 20 years,” Eagleson said. “It’s time for America to learn that we’ve been fighting. … The best thing we do for the memories of our loved ones is to get us up and get the right things, and let us have the truth accountability and closure.”
The September 11 attack was carried out by 19 suspects Al Qaedaled by Osama Bin Laden at the time. They hijacked four commercial aircraft in the United States, knocking two into the Twin Towers in New York City, one into the Pentagon and the other into a Pennsylvania field. These 19 died in the attack. Five other people were charged in military court and held in Guantanamo Bay.
