At Bank’s Terrorism Trial, Victim Testifies About Suicide Bombing in Israeli Bar
Mr. Faudem recalled that he and his girlfriend soon ducked back inside, and he remembered seeing a friend, whose birthday it was, onstage singing.
“Then, the explosion. The explosion. There was a bomb,” Mr. Faudem testified on Thursday. “I immediately jumped on my girlfriend; I threw her on the ground and covered her.”
Running out, he said, he saw the body of a suicide bomber, who had “exploded at the entrance to the bar.”
Mr. Faudem’s testimony about the 2003 bombing came at a trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn in which about 300 plaintiffs are accusing Arab Bank of knowingly financing terrorism by maintaining accounts associated with Hamas and by processing payments to people linked with terrorism.
This week’s testimony, given by the plaintiffs, has focused on Hamas’s responsibility for the 24 terrorist acts that affected the plaintiffs.
The trial, despite being a case about terrorism, is also expected to largely hinge on specific bank transactions, and whether Arab Bank took enough measures to determine if they were linked to terrorists.
Source: NYT
