The Supreme Court is allowing a bigger award of money to victims of the 1998 bombings by al-Qaida of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Despite the court’s ruling, however, it’s unlikely the victims will ever collect the full amount. The nearly simultaneous truck bombings at the embassies killed 224 people and injured thousands.
They were the first major attacks on U.S. targets by al-Qaida. The case the Supreme Court ruled in involves lawsuits filed by victims and their families against Sudan that accused the country of causing the bombings by aiding al-Qaida and leader Osama bin Laden, who lived in Sudan in the 1990s.