Court upholds family suit against Syria
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld a 2008 decision ordering the government of Syria to pay $400 million to the families of the late Jack Hensley of Marietta and his associate, both of whom were decapitated in 2004 by terrorists in Baghdad. An attorney for the victims’ families, however, acknowledged they might never receive the money.
The Syrian Arab Republic was found liable for facilitating the recruitment and training of followers of Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi and their transportation into Iraq, of harboring terrorists and providing financial support to Al Zarqawi and his terrorist network in Iraq.