Interesting:
A federal judge Wednesday awarded nearly $104 million in damages to the families of two victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, finding the plaintiffs had provided some evidence that Iraq provided support to Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
OK. Now what the hell does this mean:
He said lawyers relied heavily on “classically hearsay” evidence, including reports that a Sept. 11 hijacker met an Iraqi consul to Prague, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s remarks to the United Nations about connections between Iraq and terrorism, and defectors’ descriptions of the use of an Iraqi camp to train terrorists.
Baer said the opinions of the lawyers’ experts was sufficient to show that Iraq collaborated in or supported bin Laden’s terrorist acts on Sept. 11.
The judge noted that the experts provided few actual facts that Iraq provided support to the terrorists.
OK. I’ll play. We have circumstantial evidence, but no firm evidence.
Dodd
I wouldn’t put too much stock in this. No-one showed to defend the case, so the court entered a default judgment.
John Cole
Agreed. I thought it was a waste of the court’s time.