Sudan 'must pay USS Cole victims' $8m

[Mandy]

On this principal, the US, Britain and Israel should expect to receive a HUGE bill from the rest of the world for all the terrorist acts (including illegal military acts) done or supported by them.

Let's see : 17 marines on the USS Cole = £4,000,000. This is £235,294 each.

Over 1 million Iraqis killed as a result of US/British/Israeli action = at least £235 BILLION

Actually 1 million Iraqis from the sanctions, and over 600,000 since the invasion, so 1.6 million = £376 BILLION


Now, let's look at the Palestinians killed or displaced by Israel : I reckon a US court would have awarded TRILLIONS in damages if the victims were Israeli, and the aggressor was Arab, and they would impose crippling "import/export" taxation scheme where all money from exports are paid into a fund where 50% goes to Palestinians .. and this will run till all Palestinians have been compensated.

Sounds fair.

[Salim201]

you can look at this generally and see how absurd it is, but you can also look at a specific case to highlight the absurdity. Take the bombing during the Clinton administration of a pharamaceutical company in Sudan, which contained medicines which were destroyed affected 1000's of people, not to mention the immediate deaths as a direct consequence of the attack. Now it was consequently proved that the company was no more than a pharamaceutical company, not, as claimed a terrorist warehouse.. now its fairly unsurprising there was no mention of reparations in any mainstream media in the west. Its simply a case of one rule for the powerful.