At Arab Bank’s Terrorism Trial, Victim Recalls Seeing Suicide Bomber’s Body
Source: NY Times
It was a bit after midnight, and the crowd at Mike’s Place, a beachfront bar in Tel Aviv, was still thick, as people stayed for a jam session that attracted local musicians.
Joshua Faudem, who had worked an earlier shift tending bar, was seated outside; he was working on a documentary on the bar, and had brought his camera.
Mr. Faudem recalled that he and his girlfriend soon ducked back inside, and he remembered seeing a friend, whose birthday it was, onstage singing.
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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. Arab Bank, whose headquarters are in Jordan, says that it followed proper compliance procedures and that any payments that may have gotten through were errors.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/nyregion/at-banks-terrorism-trial-victim-testifies-about-suicide-bombing-in-israeli-bar.html
