| National
Bank of Pakistan Was Sued For Attack on
CIA Base Now 3d Complaint Due Nov 17
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 25 –
National Bank of Pakistan has
been sued for its role in
supporting or enabling a
deadly attack by al-Qaeda and
the Pakistani Taliban on CIA
Forward Operating Base Chapman
in Khost province of
Afghanistan on December 30,
2009.
On
October 20 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Alvin K.
Hellerstein held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Judge
Hellerstein grilled
plaintiffs' counsel on the
lack of specificity in the
complaint about the National
Bank of Pakistan's knowledge.
National
Bank of Pakistan's counsel
from White & Case called
the plaintiffs opportunists
from bringing in a designee of
US sanctions, James Alexander
McLintock, after they filed
their complaint. They have
moved to dismiss the
complaint.
The oral
argument was to have been held
on October 14 but was pushed
back due to "the scarcity of
court reporting services in
the Court."
On October 25
Judge Hellerstein dismissed
the 2d Amended Complaint but
grant leave to re-plead by
November 17 "without rhetoric
or unnecessary context and
background. The central issue
is the Defendant's general
awareness that the money it
was tranferring, or the
financial services it was
providing, would support
terrorism."
The case is Brown
et al v. National Bank of
Pakistan, 19-cv-11876
(Hellerstein)
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