After eight years of litigation in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, families of two Americans who were beheaded in 2004 by members of an al-Qaida splinter group are finally on the verge of receiving about $82 million in frozen Syrian bank funds.
The payment would mark the first major U.S. recovery for terror victims involving assets once controlled by Syria’s government. But it could still be derailed by rival victims of Syrian-sponsored terror, who insist that the frozen funds should be given to them instead.
