Brooklyn, NY – Families of Mumbai Terror Attack Victims In Lawsuit Against Pakistani Intelligence

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    FILE - A woman walks past a wall riddled with bullet holes at Nariman House in Mumbai November 26, 2009. Nariman House, home to the Mumbai chapter of the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement, was one of 10 sites attacked by gunmen during a 60-hour siege in the city that began on November 26, 2008. Families of the Attack Victims filed a Lawsuit Against Pakistani Intelligence in Brooklyn, NY Nov 22 2010. REUTERS/Arko Datta Brooklyn, NY – A wrongful death suit accuses the Pakistani intelligence service of complicity in the Mumbai massacre carried out by the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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    The suit was filed in Brooklyn Federal Court by relatives of four victims slain in the November 2008 bloody attack and one survivor.

    It contends Pakistan’s shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence provided support to the gunmen who killed 166 and wounded more than 300 people.

    Two victims, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg of Brooklyn and his wife Rivkah, were slaughtered at the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center in front of their 2-year-old son Moshe.

    The claim is largely based on the involvement of Pakistan national David Headley who has pleaded guilty to plotting the attacks with Lashkar-e-Taiba.

    Headley, a former federal drug informant from Chicago, held fundraising events in New York City while he was coordinating with the terror group and the Pakistani intelligence agency in planning the attack, the suit says.

    Lawyer James Kreindler, who is representing the plaintiffs, said the suit may not be politically popular.

    “Obviously, Pakistan is an ally of the U.S. in the war in Afghanistan and our efforts to fight Al Qaeda,” Kreindler said.

    “We know, however, that I.S.I. has straddled some fences and while Pakistan is certainly cooperating with us, the I.S.I. has used [Lashkar-e-Taiba] for its own purposes.”

    Kreindler’s law firm successfully sued Libya on behalf of the 259 passengers blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb on Pan Am flight 103, and the 11 people killed on the ground.

    The government of Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Taiba are also named as defendants in the suit.

    A message left at Pakistan’s consulate in Manhattan was not immediately returned


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    13 years ago

    The Pakistanis cannot be trusted. There are terrorists in their mountainous areas, and yet, their own Army is afraid to go in and root them out. Did anybody ever hear of such insanity? If there were terrorists hiding out in the Rocky Mountains, they would be obliterated.

    13 years ago

    that;s the only way to go – they should sue every country that help and sends money to pakistan also

    PrettyBoyFloyd
    PrettyBoyFloyd
    13 years ago

    And they’re just gonna pay up cuz an american judge told them to? I don’t think so