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U.S. Judge Awards $907 Million to Victims in Kenya and Tanzania Bombings
Mon Mar 31, 2014 8:30am EDT
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U.S. Judge Awards $907 Million to Victims in Kenya and Tanzania Bombings

Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia Friday awarded $907 million in total damages to American and Tanzanian victims of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which killed hundreds and injured thousands.

Thomas Fortune Fay, lead attorney for the Plaintiffs said, “This judgment is a significant step in assuring that these American and Tanzanian victims of terrorism receive justice for the suffering they experienced as a result of deliberate and calculated mayhem by the governments of Sudan and Iran. “ The inclusion of Tanzanians who were on duty in the course of their work at the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam was made possible by a 2008 amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) by The United States Congress.

Judge Bates found the defendants – the Republic of Sudan, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Sudan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security – liable for “their roles in supporting, funding, and otherwise carrying out these unconscionable acts.” The judge used the FISA as the legal instrument for the award. Among other provisions, FISA enables American and U. S. Government - employed victims of state sponsored terrorism to sue the sponsoring nation and collect any judgment awarded under it through attachments of foreign assets in the U.S.

“Countries that sponsor, promote, and execute terrorism against U.S. citizens and people who work for the U.S. Government must recognize that maiming and murdering Americans have an array of costs – political, diplomatic, and financial. We have collected several FSIA judgments for our clients, and Sudan and Iran need to know we will do everything we can to collect these. Sooner or later, these governments will learn that they cannot and will not get away with terrorist attacks on American citizens,” Mr. Fay commented.