The Bus on Jaffa Road: A Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice
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ISBN-13:
9780762780372
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2014
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Mike Kelly
Gewicht:
570 g
Format:
236x154x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
On February 25, 1996, Sara Duker and Matthew Eisenfeld, an American couple visiting Israel and who had just secretly become engaged, were on Jerusalem's Number 18 bus on the city's Jaffa Road. At a stop, a young man carrying an Israeli army backpack got on, but wasn't an Israeli soldier. He reached into his knapsack, pulled a cord, and set off a huge bomb. Sara and Matthew, the bomber, and 21 others, died instantly. Their grieving families set out to get answers and justice. They discovered that Iran had financed the bombing as well as others that preceded it. They filed a lawsuit in U.S. courts against Iran, asking for money from Iranian assets that had been frozen in the U.S. since the late 1970s. They won a judgment of $327 million against the Iranian assets. The U.S. government blocked their efforts to collect damages. The families have not give up.
Prologue: Author meets with the bombmaker, Hassan Salameh, 10 years after and his admission that he built the bomb and basically has no regrets Part I: The bombing and its immediate aftermath Part II: The battle in Congress and the courts by parents to hold Iran accountable, with the Clinton White House first supporting the parents in their court efforts and later opposing those efforts. Part III: The battle -- and eventual -- compromise with the Clintons that allowed the families to collect some money. Epilogue: The bittersweet victory, with the families thinking that the were getting money from Iran but discovering that the money came from a US govt account, and also knowing that some victims of terror got paid and others did not. With regrets by the judge and others.
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