Bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 were the first major attacks on U.S. targets by al-Qaida.
The bombing on Aug. 7, 1998, and the nearly simultaneous one at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were the first major attacks on U.S. targets by al-Qaida. More than 200 people were killed and thousands were injured.
A court awarded the group of more than 550 people approximately $10 billion in damages. But an appeals court threw out $4 billion of the award that was punitive damages. The court said the federal Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act bars punitive damages for events such as the bombings if they happened before a 2008 amendment to the law. The Supreme Court will decide whether that's right.
It's unclear, however, how much the bombing victims might get from the cash-strapped country. Earlier this month, Sudan announced it had reached a settlement with the far fewer number of families of the victims of the al-Qaida-linked attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000; that settlement was said to be $70 million.
Oport said if she were to get money as a result of the case she would probably use some of it to travel. She moved to the United States in 2002 but her mother, who is in her 90s, is in Kenya. Oport said she would like to take her three daughters and her mom on a vacation, maybe to Australia or Israel, and to pay off her house.
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