http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/The_United_States/Iran_asked_to_pay_254m_for_Saudi_attack/articleshow/911846.cms

Iran asked to pay $254m for Saudi attack
[ 24 Dec, 2006 0147hrs ISTREUTERS ]

  WASHINGTON: A US federal judge on Friday ordered the Islamic Republic 
of Iran to pay $254 million to the family of 17 US servicemen killed in 
the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers residence at a US military base in 
Saudi Arabia.

The default judgment was entered against the Iranian government, its 
security ministry and the Revolutionary Guards after they failed to 
respond to the lawsuit, which was initiated more than four years ago.

In issuing the $254.4 million judgment in the case, US district judge 
Royce Lamberth concluded that the Khobar Towers attack was carried out 
by people recruited by Gen Ahmed Sharifi of the Iranian Revolutionary 
Guards.

The truck bomb involved in the attack was assembled at a base in 
Lebanon's Bekaa Valley operated by Hezbollah and the Revolutionary 
Guards, and the attack was approved by Ayatollah Khameini, the supreme 
leader of Iran, the 209-page ruling found.

The decision relied heavily on an investigation of the attack by the FBI 
under director Louis Freeh. The FBI probe led to the grand jury 
indictment of 13 members of Hezbollah in June 21, 2001.

"The totality of the evidence at trial, combined with the findings and 
conclusions entered by this court ... firmly establishes that the Khobar 
Towers bombing was planned, funded and sponsored by senior leadership in 
the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Lamberth wrote.

The bombing of Khobar Towers, a residence on an American military base 
in Dhahran, killed a total of 19 servicemen.


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