Unlikely? Not at all,if the defendant is deep-pocketed America.
The plaintiffs are 3,000 persons or relatives of persons killed or injured when terrorists blew up United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998.
Represented by three California law firms, they seek hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in a class-action suit filed in Washington, D.C.
Some 224 persons, including 12 Americans, were killed and 5,000 injured when car bombs demolished the buildings.
The 21 indicted terrorist suspects--including four persons on trial this week in New York's U.S. District Court--are linked to Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.
The U.S. already has spent $46.2 million in humanitarian aid to pay medical bills, school fees and other expenses of the bombing victims.
Bin Laden and the 20 other persons cited in a 319-count indictment--not the U.S.--should be the persons targeted for damages.(7 JANUARY 2001)
