Comments on: Update: Blaming banks for terrorist attacks

By: Matthew Brown

Matthew Brown — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:04:12 +0000

I don’t see why a US court is concerned with the responsibility of foreign companies with regard to terrorist attacks on foreign soil.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:01:49 +0000

1) If we’re going to have American courts dictate French banks’ customers, do we want French courts’ dictating the speech of American websites?

2) Even if one wants American courts to dictate French banks’ customers, how is the French bank supposed to know that one of its customers is connected to terrorism? The US didn’t call the group terrorist until after the Hamas bombing in question, and Credit Lyonnais did respond by cutting off the group from the bank.

3) Where the heck is the causal link? Doesn’t proximate cause count for anything any more?

By: J.T. Wenting

J.T. Wenting — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:22:07 +0000

I can fully agree with a US judge not trusting a French “investigation” against a French company having links with Islamic terrorists. The French support those guys in their “struggle against Zionism” (iow, their campaign to destroy Israel and exterminate Judaism) after all, albeit not openly.