At least 12 families who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center attacks plan to sue Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. Such efforts used to be considered almost comically futile, but with the passage in 2000 of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act, Congress has enabled terrorism victims to sue successfully some foreign governments. How do you get them to pay up? From assets frozen in the U.S.
In the past year alone, more than $410 million was paid out from frozen funds of Cuba and Iran. Relatives of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots shot down...
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