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Court Lets U.S. Terror Victim's Family Sue Palestinian Authority
(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.