04-20-2016, 12:50 PM
SUING SYRIA
And, on Monday, the family of beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff filed suit against the Syrian government.
They allege that Syrian President Assad should pay up because he was an ally in the ISIS beheadings. The Sotloff family claims that Assad supported the beheadings by ISIS in order to shift Western attention away from getting rid of Assad to instead defeating ISIS.
“Syria’s material support for Daesh caused the abduction and murder of Steven Sotloff,” the lawsuit says, using an acronym for the group that comes from its name in Arabic.
It's not clear how the Sotloff family expects to be paid if they win the suit since Assad doesn't have assets and investments in the U.S. (I don't think they'll win this one, personally).
Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april-20-2016/
And, on Monday, the family of beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff filed suit against the Syrian government.
They allege that Syrian President Assad should pay up because he was an ally in the ISIS beheadings. The Sotloff family claims that Assad supported the beheadings by ISIS in order to shift Western attention away from getting rid of Assad to instead defeating ISIS.
“Syria’s material support for Daesh caused the abduction and murder of Steven Sotloff,” the lawsuit says, using an acronym for the group that comes from its name in Arabic.
It's not clear how the Sotloff family expects to be paid if they win the suit since Assad doesn't have assets and investments in the U.S. (I don't think they'll win this one, personally).
Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april-20-2016/