Lawsuits

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Starting in early 2002, the first two cases (of later almost 10!) had been made public in some smaller press releases. In April 2002, one husband of one of the victims of the World Trade Center disaster on 11 September - who is not entitled to payment from the US Victims Compensation Fund - has decided to sue American Airlines for damages. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1919000/1919431.stm

In May 2002, Attorney Stanley Hilton (Sen. Bob Dole's former aide, San Francisco) announced a lawsuit against the US Government, representing other victim families. On June 3rd, 2002, Hilton filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court against President Bush and other government officials for "allowing" the terrorist attacks to occur (See Lihop). Among Hilton's allegations: Bush conspired to create the Sept. 11 attacks for his own political gain and has been using Osama bin Laden as a scapegoat. "I hope it will expose the fact that there are numbers of people in the government, including Bush and his top assistants, who wanted this to happen," Hilton said. His class-action suit named 10 defendants, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Hilton repeated in early 2003, that the 9-11 Hijackers were funded by the US Government. He claimed, that he interviewed an ex-wife of one of the 9-11 hijackers, who revealed that she "met Atta,Mohammad and his younger brother and that this group were double-agents operating in a series of cells that were aided and abetted by the US government". http://www.prisonplanet.com/hilton_03_11_03.mp3 Hilton said he represents the families of 14 victims and that 400 plaintiffs are involved nationwide. He demands Bush's impeachment (See ImpeachBush) and believes the truth will come out in trial. Source: http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.lawyer.0611w

In the same month, Judicialwatch.Org announced a lawsuit against the White House and various US Agencies, accusing them of having prior knowlegde of the anthrax (->) attacks. The agencies named include: the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (See Usamriid) and the U.S. Postal Service. The documents were requested under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. Larry Klayman, chairman of Judicial Watch, noted administration officials said last fall, that some White House staff had begun taking the antibiotic Cipro on Sept. 11, weeks before the anthrax attacks were made public. "We believe that the White House knew or had reason to know that an anthrax attack was imminent or under way," Klayman said. "We want to know what the government knew, and when they knew it." Sources: http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27888 http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20020607_1792.html

Lawsuit against Port Authority: Lawyers, including Sanford Rubenstein, who represents about 30 families, filed a class-action lawsuit against the authority seeking to extend the one-year deadline. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/47082.htm Lawsuit against Irak: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37736-2002Sep4.html "...A lawsuit filed Wednesday claims Iraq knew Osama bin Laden was targeting the Pentagon and New York City prior to Sept. 11 and that it sponsored terrorists for a decade to avenge its defeat in the Gulf War." Kreindler & Kreindler represent the lawsuit against Flight 587, which crashed over Long Island/NYC last year http://www.kriendler.com/news/amer587.htm Con Edison's Lawsuit against Building7

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Following almost all lawsuits very carefully, investigative journalist Flocco,Tom released in November 2002 a summary of his interviews with the most important participants:

-Douglas A. Latto (attorney at New York's Baumeister & Samuels firm. Baumeister and Samuels represents in excess of 60 families)

-Michel F. Baumeister (a 30-year aviation accident trial lawyer, same firm) -Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein (Judge of the Lotto/Baumeister lawyers) -Michael Thompson (chief engineer in the CVR/FDR division of Allied Signal-Honeywell Corporation, http://www.ssfdr.com/record.html in Redmond, Washington)

-Mark Larson, Thompsons counsel (When asked Thompson, if he was the person in charge of flight data recovery in the 9/11 investigation, since Honeywell manufactured the data recorders in operation on all four Boeing jets involved in the September 11 crashes. "I cannot answer that under advice from legal counsel," he said. -Mary Schiavo (->, lead 9/11 counsel for Los Angeles-based Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo, representing some 40 victim family clients related to passengers on all four planes) including Julie Sweeney (->). Both supported a press conference in June 2002 by Unansweredquestions.Org -Paul J. Hedlund (Co-Counsel of Schiavo. Veteran LA air disaster attorney who concentrates on the outcome of the 9/11 World Trade Center litigation. He said in the interview with Flocco, that "in a typical air disaster, the NTSB pays for the reasonable expenses for recovery of the remains with the aircraft company reimbursing normal and reasonable expenses.)

-Ellen Mariani (of Mariani vs. United Airlines, brought by Schiavo and Hedlund on behalf of Mariani's husband Neil, who was killed when his United 175 jet crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Mariani wants to know, why Senator Graham and Congressmen Goss had breakfast together the morning of the attacks with the Pakistani Intelligence leader "who was writing checks to support the hijackers' living expenses in the United States?," "It was even reported, that Secretary of State Powell and CIA Director Tenet met with the terrorist sponsor"

-James Kreindler (lead 9/11 counsel at New York's Kreindler and Kreindler firm. The Kreindler firm has filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of over 1,400 victims of the attacks, seeking $1 trillion in damages from Al Qaeda, Iraq and other unknown 9/11 terrorist sponsors. The Kreindler firm includes in its client roster two of the most outspoken activists among all the victim families: Sally Regenhard and Monica Gabrielle. Both have attended congressional hearings and are leaders in the Skyscraper Safety Campaign.)

-Michael Elsner (associate attorney at Ronald Motley's Ness, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, representing houndreds of victim families in a civil action primarily against members of the Saudi royal family and other prominent Saudi businessmen) http://news.findlaw.com/wsj/docs/terrorism/burnettba81502cmp.pdf http://law.about.com/library/weekly/aa090402a.htm http://law.about.com/library/911/blalbarakaat.htm

Ron Motley, Attorney on November 25th, 2002: "We were able to establish, by sworn testimony, the act of participation of Prince Turki in the facilitation of the funding of al Qaeda directly in Afghanistan. We spoke with senior Taliban officials who were in the room when he indeed did facilitate the transfer of large sums of money directly to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Prince Turki hasn't appeared in the suit yet. But when he does, if he does, we will be able to take his testimony under oath. But Prince Turki was in Afghanistan on numerous occasions facilitating the transfer of funds and equipment to al Qaeda. And the people who gave us these sworn statements were in the room when it occurred. And these were senior Taliban, former Taliban officials. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/25/cct.00.html

-Deena Burnett (lead 9/11 client of Elsner)

-Bill Crowley (FBI agent, who investigated the crash scene of Flight93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvannia)

-Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the NTSB. Source: http://www.tomflocco.com/Lawyers_seek_black_boxs.htm

Doubting the official version of Sep11th, another 911victim, Kristin Breitwieser became famous in an interview with Phil Donahue. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00082.htm

Breitwieser later testified in new 911-hearings, together with Stephen Push, who lost his wife Lisa on Flight77, which crashed into the Pentagon.