Libel Tourism

(Newsweek) Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball - A group of wealthy Saudi businessmen have launched an ambitious campaign to clear their names by filing defamation suits in the British courts, seeking to invoke Britain's plaintiff-friendly libel laws to silence critics in the U.S. and in the international community. The legal actions come at a time when American lawyers for the families of September 11 victims are aggressively pursuing a $1 trillion lawsuit in the U.S. that accuses dozens of Saudi royal princes and wealthy businessmen of providing funding that led to the terror attacks.


2003-10-24 00:00:00

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