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Washington: Families sue Saudi Arabia over 9/11 attacks

WASHINGTON: Hundreds of relatives of those who died 9/11 attacks have sued Saudi Arabia.

The lawsuits filed in New York yesterday capitalizes on last year’s decision by US Congress to allow victims sue Saudi Arabia. The lawsuits seek unspecified damages.

Over the past 15 years many attempts to hold Saudi Arabia responsible have failed. Fifteen of the 19 attackers who hijacked planes to carry out the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania were Saudis.

Though the 9/11 Commission report found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded” the attacks it also talked of “likelihood” that Saudi-government-sponsored charities did fund the attacks.