DAMMIT, I searched high and low - then the thread dissappears....and here it is. You guys are bastards! A notification of movement would have helped
As far as a precedent for this....
http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL30606.pdf
Also the suit was filed prior to the current war, there were funds frozen in excess of a billion $$$ here in the US...
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Congress opened the door to such claims in 1996, when it lifted the shield of sovereign immunity — which basically prohibits lawsuits against foreign governments — for any nation that supports terrorism. At that time, Iraq was one of seven nations identified by the State Department as sponsoring terrorist activity. The 17 Gulf War POWs looked to have a very strong case when they first filed suit in 2002. They had been undeniably tortured by a tyrannical regime, one that had $1.7 billion of its assets frozen by the U.S. government.
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If the Congress made it legal to take these types of actions and there is a precedent for them, why would DOJ block it???
To me it screams of double standard, fuck that.