Saudis Avoid Massive Lawsuit Over 9/11

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The Saudi royal family has succeeded in rebuffing an
effort to hold them responsible for the Al Qaida suicide air strikes on New
York and Washington in 2001.
A federal appeals court, upholding a 2006 decision by a lower court, has
ruled that the Arab kingdom was immune from prosecution in U.S. courts. On
Aug. 14, the New York-based Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an
attempt by the families of 400 victims of the Al Qaida destruction of New
York City's World Trade Center to
sue Saudi rulers for financing the Islamic insurgency group. More than 3,000
Americans died in the Al Qaida attacks, in which hijackers crashed four
passenger jets.