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FSIA Protects Afghanistan

In a lawsuit by victims of the terror bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, Odilla Mutaka Mwani et al. v. Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan, no. 04-5266, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted Afghanistan's FSIA immunity claim on August 5, 2005 while it held in favor of the plaintiffs' claims that the co-defendants bin Laden and al Qaeda submitted themselves to the jurisdiction of American courts because they engaged in unabashedly malignant actions director at [and] felt here.  -   Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington, DC.

Mon, 21:31:01 8 Aug 2005 / / Embassy Law Link


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