{"id":1097,"date":"2003-07-30T23:21:38","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T03:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/30\/us-judge-says-iraqi-fund-cant-be-used-"},"modified":"2003-07-30T23:21:38","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T03:21:38","slug":"us-judge-says-iraqi-fund-cant-be-used-to-compensate-ex-pows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/30\/us-judge-says-iraqi-fund-cant-be-used-to-compensate-ex-pows\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Judge Says Iraqi Fund Can&#8217;t Be Used to Compensate Ex-POWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a454'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 30 &#8212; Former U.S. fighter pilots held prisoner by Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War can&#8217;t collect compensation from seized Iraqi money that President George W. Bush set aside to rebuild that country, a U.S. judge said.          <\/p>\n<p>The former fighter pilots had been awarded $959 million in damages for their lawsuit charging they were tortured by Iraq during their captivity. The U.S. seized $1.7 billion from Iraq and has spent part of the money on reconstruction since Bush earmarked the funds for that purpose. At least $700 million remains in the account.<\/p>\n<p>Question for my students: How is this case similar to and different from that of Belk v. United States (1988), in which the Iranian hostages were attempting to recover damages from seized Iranian assets?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quote.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000103&amp;sid=a8lBx7INqoh0&amp;refer=us\"> from Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 30 &#8212; Former U.S. fighter pilots held prisoner by Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War can&#8217;t collect compensation from seized Iraqi money that President George W. Bush set aside to rebuild that country, a U.S. judge said. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/30\/us-judge-says-iraqi-fund-cant-be-used-to-compensate-ex-pows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}