US court decides against USS Cole sailors

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The US Supreme Court on March 26 did not allow American sailors injured in the deadly 2000 al Qaeda bombing of the Navy destroyer USS Cole to collect the $314.7 million in damages from the government of Sudan for its alleged role in the attack.

Namely, the ruling overturned a lower court’s decision that had allowed the sailors to collect the damages from certain banks that held Sudanese assets, Reuters reports.

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