Sunday, September 10, 2006

Interview with flight 93 widow

One of the Flight 93 widows was interviewed by Ignatius press, a Catholic publisher.

I found this part interesting:
What happened is that Mr. Burnett, Tom's dad, had the idea that since we couldn't help in any other way in the war on terror, that the one thing we could do is to take away the money that the terrorists were being given so that they could no longer fight and attack our government and our citizens. We went to an attorney and asked if we could put a stronghold on the Al Qaeda's funding. We didn't know where it came from; we really just said that we wanted to deal with Osama bin Laden.

The attorney told us he would look into and see what could be done. He came back to us a month later and said that the funding for the Al Qaeda, as well as different terrorist organizations around the world, seems to funnel out of Saudi Arabia. What we could do is file lawsuits against the different individuals and entities that provide that money to them, knowing that money is going to be used for terrorist purposes. And so that's what we did. We ended up with a lawsuit that included one hundred and fifty defendants, ranging from charities and banks to royal family members, who knowingly gave money to terrorist organizations for the purpose of terrorism. Our idea was to stop that money flow so that Al Qaeda would eventually be forced to stop fighting.

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