US warns Palestinian Authority could collapse following terror ruling

He also said the amount of damages to be paid should take into account the “critical national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.”

 

The US Department of Justice disclosed filed a notice of interest in a letter filed Monday in a Manhattan federal court, six months after 10 American families won a $655 million verdict against the PLO and Palestinian Authority.

 

Kent Yalowitz, the families’ lawyer, rebuffed the State Department’s position, arguing that if the PA “has enough money to pay convicted terrorists, it has enough to pay the judgment in this case.”

 

The Justice Department’s statement of interest marks the US government’s first formal role in the diplomatically sensitive lawsuit, which was filed in 2004.

 

The families had won $218.5 million of damages, a sum automatically tripled under a 1992 US anti-terrorism law to $655.5 million.

 

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