Iraqi damages
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In an unbelievable story in the Sydney Morning Herald an American judge has ruled that
“Iraq provided material support to Osama bin Laden and his terrorist group al-Qaeda for the September 11, 2001, attack and is liable to pay $US104 million … in damages to two victims’ families.”
Whether it is true that Iraq did have a hand to play in the attacks or not, and as far as I know that has not yet been definitively proven, wasn’t the whole argument of the Second Gulf War that the Iraqi people are oppressed and had no freedom? If so, it would be far more accurate to sat that it was the regime that provided “material support”.
If so, then it was the regime that should have been liable to pay the damages, which leaves only one question: as the regime has since changed should it not be the new regime that is making the payment rather than the impoverished Iraqi people?
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