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Legislative Offer Would Ease Sudan's Removal From Terror List

Nabeel Biajo

   Two U.S. lawmakers who sit on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
   are offering a compromise with the Trump administration that would
   clear the way to remove Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of
   terrorism.

   The U.S. State Department has already reached an agreement with Sudan
   that would provide for Khartoum to financially compensate victims of
   deadly 1998 and 2000 terror attacks in Africa and the Middle East in
   exchange for removal of the list and the restoration of its sovereign
   immunity.

   However, some U.S. legislators are threatening to block the deal
   because it would prevent families of the victims of the September 11,
   2001, attacks in the United States from pursuing their own lawsuit
   against Sudan.

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