Wednesday, June 18, 2008
In an Attempt to Avoid Paying the Widow...
Blackwater asks that a suit be tried under Islamic Sharia law instead of US law. Nice version of patriotism, Erik Prince.
- The company, based in Moyock, doesn’t want the case heard in an American courtroom under American law: it wants the case decided by Shari’a, the Islamic law of Afghanistan
“North Carolinians are a very patriotic people,” Drescher told Prince. “It’s hard to read that brief as an American citizen and not be insulted by it.” “Where did the crash occur?” Prince responded. “Afghanistan.” “What you are saying is you don’t want to have this case heard by an American judge, by an American jury, under American law,” Drescher said. “We want it heard under Sharia law, under Islamic law?” Prince said he would defer to his lawyers on the issue.
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