(Fox News) On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the family of Mark Parsons can sue the Palestinian Authority under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1991, overturning a lower court's judgment in favor of the PA. Parsons and two other members of DynCorp International were killed by a roadside bomb while providing security to State Department employees during an October 2003 trip to Gaza. "We believe a reasonable juror could conclude that Palestinian Authority employees provided material support to the bomber," reads the ruling. Documents provided to the Parsons family showed that Amer Qarmout, a leader of the Popular Resistance Committee, admitted that he had dug a hole to place a bomb and asked guards with the PA National Security Service to ignore the shoveling, which he said they did.
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