Published: 06/06/11, 10:50 AM / Last Update: 06/06/11, 11:38 AM
Legal Warfare May Stop IHH Flotilla by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Headquarters of in Greater London Islington. Inmarsat, Bézier, mushroom <http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/34272345.jpg> Inmarsat, Bézier, mushroom Threats of a lawsuit against a firm supplying communications equipment to the <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144733> IHH flotilla may stop the ships from sailing for Hams-controlled Gaza without a shot being fired. The flotilla is scheduled to sail later this month. <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136288> Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Center) announced Monday that it has warned the Inmarsat mobile satellite services company that it faces criminal charges and a lawsuit if it supplies the flotilla sponsored by the terror-linked IHH Organization. Inmarsat is based in London with offices in Dubai and the United States and dominates the market of mobile communications system to ships, enabling them to be in contact with ports and other ships. Israel Law Center director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner noted that Inmarsat supplied equipment last year to the <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137997> Mavi Marmara ship. it was aboard that ship that 50 IHH terror activists <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137798> brutally attacked Israeli Navy commandos who stopped the ship from trying to break the maritime embargo aimed at preventing the smuggling of wepaons for Gaza terrorists. U.S. law states, according to the Law Center, that any company that supplies the flotilla is liable for criminal charges for helping the enemy of a friendly state. The Center says there is proven connection between the IHH and Hamas, which the U.S. government has declared an outlawed terrorist organization. The Law Center said the notice of warning that was sent to Inmarsat satisfies the American law that requires a weeks warning before legal action can be taken against a company allegedly violating the law. Darshan-Leitner warned the company that it faces a lawsuit from the Law Center if it does not state in a letter that it will cease and desist from selling mobile communications equipment to the IHH-sponsored flotilla. The Law Center previously succeeded in receiving a <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144423> letter from Lloyd's insurance company that it would stop covering the Mavi Marmara, a ship of the IHH. Most ports in the world will not allow ships to dock without insurance. Our objective is to prevent bloodshed on the high seas and to stop the ships before they set out to sail, the attorney said. The Israeli-based Law Center fights terrorist organizations through lawsuits, and fights for the rights of terror victims with the intention of bankrupting the terror organizations. It has won more than $1 billion in judgments against terror organizations and state sponsors and has succeeded in winning court orders freezing more than $600 million in assets of Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and other terror groups. (IsraelNationalNews.com <http://IsraelNationalNews.com/> ) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
