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The New York Times
February 20, 2002 Wednesday
Late Edition - Final

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE VICTIMS;

7 Families Sue bin Laden and Others for Billions
BYLINE: By The New York Times
SECTION: Section A; Column 1; National Desk; Pg. 11
LENGTH: 411 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Feb. 19
The families of seven victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center filed a class-action lawsuit today against
Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as well as Iran and Iraq.
"Our goal is simple," said Fiona Havlish, whose husband, Donald G. Havlish Jr., was killed when a hijacked airliner
crashed into the south tower of the trade center. "We want to prevent all those responsible for our losses from ever
inflicting such pain on others."
Ms. Havlish added: "We seek to deprive them of the financial means to ever commit such acts again. This is not a
lawsuit about financial recovery. It is a lawsuit about financial deprivation. I will do whatever I can to bankrupt all
terrorists, those that harbor terrorists and those that help terrorists."
The suit seeks more than $1 billion in compensatory damages and $100 billion in punitive damages on behalf of all
those killed on Sept. 11.
The suit, filed in Federal District Court here, also named as defendants Zacarias Moussaoui and the 19 men the F.B.I.
lists as the Sept. 11 hijackers and seeks assets from 141 organizations and companies identified by the Treasury and
State Departments as sponsors of terrorism.
Mr. Moussaoui, 33, a French citizen who is now in a Virginia jail, is the only person charged with involvement in the
attacks. President Bush has already frozen millions of dollars believed to be linked to terrorist organizations.
Ms. Havlish said the group did not intend to sue American business concerns in the United States.
Several suits have been filed by families of victims of terrorism under a 1996 law that allows legal action against
countries that the government accuses of sponsoring terrorism against American citizens.
Congress passed a measure in 1998 that called for the State and Treasury Departments to help victims of terrorism
locate money for judgments. But the legislation included a waiver that permits the president to decline support in the
interest of national security.
Clinton administration officials had expressed concern that the sanctity of United States diplomatic property abroad,
which is guaranteed under international law, might be compromised if private citizens seized foreign government assets
or property under such court decisions.
"We harbor no false illusions," said Ellen Saracini, whose husband, Victor, was the captain of United Airlines Flight

175, which crashed into the south tower.

"But we must start somewhere," Ms. Saracini said.
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GRAPHIC: Photo: Plaintiffs in the class-action suit filed yesterday included, seated, from left, Tara Bane, Clara
Chirchirillo, Russa Steiner and Fiona Havlish and, standing, from left, Grace Parkinson-Godshalk and Ellen Saracini.
(Paul Hosefros/The New York Times)
PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper
Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company

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The Washington Post

February 20, 2002 Wednesday
Final Edition

Bin Laden, Other Terrorists Sued;

Survivors of Trade Center Victims Target Assets in Federal Court Action
BYLINE: Neely Tucker, Washington Post Staff Writer
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A10
LENGTH: 745 words
One of the largest lawsuits stemming from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in
Washington as six widows and a mother sued Osama bin Laden and 140 other named defendants in an attempt to
"bankrupt terrorist organizations forever."

"My husband found himself in the most forward trench of a terrible new kind of war," said Ellen Saracini, his widow
and the mother of their two children.
Thomas E. Mellon, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, described the suit as a way of disrupting the work of terrorist
groups by getting at their cash flow. He said the suit was an attempt to claim what money can be found and, more
importantly, an effort to tie up the terrorist organizations' frozen funds so they can't be released.
"It's not so much about our getting the money as it is of them not getting it," he said.
At least one other individual lawsuit against bin Laden and his network of terrorists was filed in U.S. District Court in
December. That suit, brought by the public interest group Judicial Watch on behalf of an unnamed man whose wife was
killed in the World Trade Center, is making its way through the court system.
But legal, political and practical problems abound with such claims.
By using the list of terrorist groups from President Bush's post-Sept. 11 executive order, the plaintiffs have a massive
problem in serving the defendants. They also will face challenges in proving their case against each of them at trial.
The suit names the former government of Afghanistan and the current governments of Iran and Iraq. But Afghanistan
was never listed as a sponsor of terrorism by the State Department, a prerequisite for claims against a foreign power to
move forward under U.S. law. And, although investigators have pointed out links between some of the Sept. 11
terrorists and Iraq or Iran, there has not been conclusive evidence of that.
"It's going to be very difficult to proceed if they get out ahead of the president and Congress on international law, on
naming states as taking part in specific terrorist events," said Stuart Newberger, a lawyer with the D.C. firm of Crowell
& Moring who has won a number of high-profile international terrorism claims. "The federal courts are just not going to
direct the nation's foreign policy."
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Copyright 2002 The Washington Post

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The Philadelphia Inquirer
May 20, 2011 Friday
CITY-C Edition

Court filings advance claim Iran aided 9/11 hijackers

BYLINE: By Chris Mondics; Inquirer Staff Writer
SECTION: BUSINESS; P-com Biz; Pg. D01
LENGTH: 790 words
Lawyers for seven family members of Philadelphia-area victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks filed new documents
Thursday in long-running litigation that they say provide clear evidence the government of Iran aided the hijackers.
Included in the court filings are affidavits from 9/11 Commission staff members alleging that the Iran government
directly aided the attack by facilitating the movement of 9/11 hijacking team members through Iran.
The 9/11 Commission, in its June 16, 2004, report, said that senior al-Qaeda operatives had long maintained contact
with Iranian intelligence officials and that there was "strong evidence" that Iranian border officials had facilitated their
passage through the country on their way to Afghanistan. The commission said there was evidence that Iranian
government officials had agreed not to stamp the passports of traveling al-Qaeda operatives.
They would have been barred from the United States had their documents shown travel in Iran, which the U.S.
government had designated as a state supporter of terrorism. Despite those findings, the commission stopped short of
directly implicating Iran and its proxy in southern Lebanon, the militant group Hezbollah, long linked with terrorist
attacks around the world, in the attacks.
"Developing evidence of Iran's involvement with al-Qaeda regarding the events of 9/11 is like putting together a large
jigsaw puzzle where many of the parts are missing and never will be found," said the plaintiffs' lawyer Thomas E.
Mellon Jr. of Doylestown.
But, he added, "over the last nine years, after interviewing dozens of people, reviewing hundreds of documents, and
consulting with many experts in the field, we have developed a strong evidentiary case of Iran's involvement."
The lawsuit was filed in 2002 in federal District Court in Manhattan. Among the plaintiffs are Ellen Saracini of Bucks
County, wife of Victor Saracini, captain of United Flight 175, the second aircraft to hit the World Trade Center, and
Fiona Havlish, formerly of Bucks County and now of Boulder, Colo., whose husband also died in the attacks.
Mellon cites affidavits from Janice L. Kephart, a former counsel to the 9/11 Commission who focused on the ways the
hijackers evaded border security, and former federal prosecutor Dietrich Snell, also a former 9/11 staff lawyer.
"In sum, it is my expert opinion that there is clear and convincing evidence that Iran and Hezbollah provided material
support to al-Qaeda by actively facilitating the travel of eight to 10 of the 9/11 hijackers to Iran and Beirut," Kephart
said.
Snell added in a similar statement, "There is clear and convincing evidence pointing to involvement on the part of
Hezbollah and Iran in the 9/11 attack."
Mellon's lawsuit is but one of several against foreign governments alleging complicity. But others, including a lawsuit
filed by the Center City firm Cozen O'Connor, are much further along, and lawyers in those actions are obtaining
documents from Islamist charities that they assert aided the attackers with financial and logistical support.
Those suits suffered a setback in June 2009, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of rulings that the

Saudi government and Saudi royal family, named initially as defendants, were immune from terrorism lawsuits.
For such lawsuits to go forward, the State Department must find that a foreign government had actively supported
terrorist causes, and in the Saudi case there was no such designation.
The Cozen litigation and other lawsuits that named the Saudis as defendants are still ongoing because other defendants,
including accused terrorism financiers and Islamist charities, remain as defendants.
The lawsuit filed by Mellon does not face the same hurdles because the State Department designated Iran a state
supporter of terrorism.
But it faces obstacles of its own. Iran's assets were frozen years ago, and very little remains to collect.
The Congressional Research Service reported in 2008 that U.S. courts had awarded $19 billion in judgments against
foreign governments found to have supported terrorism. But, it said, "the scarcity of assets within U.S. jurisdiction . . .
has made judgments against terrorist states difficult to enforce."
Mellon said that while it was not likely that the plaintiffs would be able to collect anytime soon, there was value in
exposing key facts about the alleged Iranian involvement through litigation.
"When we started this, it was to answer the questions of the families from the Philadelphia area. That is what motivated
us," he said.
For additional coverage of the lawsuit stemming from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, go to www.philly.com/cozenContact
staff writer Chris Mondics at 215-854-5957 or cmondics@phillynews.com.
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Daily News (New York)

April 2, 2014 Wednesday
SPORTS FINAL REPLATE EDITION

Vics seize Iran's bldg.

BYLINE: BY DANIEL BEEKMAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 14
LENGTH: 170 words
TERRORISM VICTIMS are celebrating a concrete victory in their decades-long quest to hold Iran accountable for its
role in the 9/11 attacks and other atrocities.
They won the right last week to seize a $500 million Midtown office tower linked to Iran and are near a deal with the
feds to distribute the assets of the property, lawyers said.
"This is about all the families," said Fiona Havlish, whose husband, Donald Havlish, was killed in the World Trade
Center on 9/11. "There really is a light at the end of the tunnel."
The Iranian companies that own 650 Fifth Ave. (below) must forfeit the building to the victims, who hold billions of
dollars in judgments against Iran thanks to successful lawsuits over terrorism, Manhattan Federal Judge Katherine
Forrest ruled Friday.
The 9/11 victims staked claims to the 36-story tower at W. 52nd St. after Manhattan Federal Judge George Daniels, in a
2011 default judgment, said Iran was partly liable for 9/11 because it provided travel support to terrorists.
dbeekman@nydailynews.com
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