UPDATE .Sen. Specter Files Supreme Court Brief in Torture ????Case... . Communal Groups Back Somali in Bid To Block Lawsuits

update... US's Supreme Court Have Ruled Against Gen. M. A. Samatar...... “Obviously we're very disappointed .. Jihad win.. in our legal system.. National Post Supreme Court: no immunity for ex-Somali official‎ 08-1555 Samantar v. Yousuf (06/01/2010)

The Democrats' Unrelenting Assistance To Jihadists .

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) today is filing a brief on behalf of himself and two other members of Congress in a closely-watched human rights case testing whether foreign torture victims can seek damages in U.S. courts. The case, which will be argued March 3, is Samantar v. Yousuf, a dispute over the meaning of the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, which Specter sponsored.
In passing the law, Specter asserted in the brief, Congress intended "to provide redress for egregious acts that infringe human rights and are an affront to human dignity." Joining Specter on the brief were Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas.)
Bashe Abdi Yousuf, a Somali businessman ?? who was tortured ??  and imprisoned under the Siad Barre regime in Somalia in the 1980s, invoked the law in suing Mohamed Samantar, former defense minister and prime minister of Somalia. Samantar fled Somalia in the early 1990s and now lives in Virginia. Four other Somali torture victims are also part of the suit, first filed in 2004 by the Center for Justice and Accountability. At the district court level, Samantar argued successfully that he was protected from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and the suit was dismissed. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit reversed, finding that immunity under the law does not extend to individuals.
In his brief Specter -- who has argued before the Supreme Court -- asserted emphatically that Congress intended to cover cases like Yousuf's, and that to interpret the law otherwise would "effectively nullify" the law. A .pdf copy of the brief can be found here.
The fact that the Court agreed to hear the case has fueled worry by legislators and human rights groups that the law is in jeopardy. In a floor statement on thec ase last December, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said, "I am concerned that the TVPA's crucial role in protecting human rights may be weakened or even rendered meaningless."
Eileen O'Connor, a former CNN foreign correspondent and now chair of the Center for Justice and Accountability, said the Specter brief and others that are expected to be filed today will be important in clarifying that Congress intended to make sure that "people who commit human rights abuses cannot just come to the United States and find safe haven." O'Connor is counsel at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington.
UPDATE: Solicitor General Elena Kagan also filed a brief in the case today, supporting affirmance of the 4th Circuit ruling. The brief argues that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as written does not protect foreign officials from lawsuit, and should not alter the tradition that the executive branch makes the "sensitive diplomatic and foreign-policy judgments" about whether foreign officials should be given immunity. "In the view of the United States," wrote Kagan, "principles articulated by the Executive Branch, not the FSIA, properly govern the immunity of foreign officials from civil suit for acts in their official capacity."

Washington — American Jewish organizations that fought to establish the jurisdiction of U.S. courts for suits against terrorist groups are taking an opposite tack in suits involving human rights abuses.Jewish groups have filed briefs siding with a former Somali official now living in Virginia who is alleged to bear responsibility for atrocities committed during his tenure.The case’s outcome is expected to set a precedent on the vulnerability to human rights lawsuits of former and present officials of internationally recognized governments. But supporters of Israel fear the result could enable Palestinians who claim to be victims of Israel to pursue Israeli officials here.The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments March 3 in the case of Yousuf v. Samantar, in which a group of Somalis is seeking financial damages from Mohamed Ali Samantar, Somalia’s former defense minister. He also served as prime minister from 1987 to 1990. Samantar was a top official in the regime of President Siad Barre, a socialist-leaning dictatorship that was denounced by international groups for its systematic use of torture and arbitrary arrests, and for the rape and murder of political rivals and dissidents.Among the five Somalis suing Samantar are a student who was allegedly detained and raped 15 times by a military man, a former officer who alleges he survived a mass execution and a businessman who claims he was tortured for months by the regime Samantar helped lead. Two of the plaintiffs are now American citizens. The case was filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act.The Supreme Court will rule on the plaintiffs’ right to pursue a civil lawsuit against Samantar. Pro-Israel activists, fearing a precedent that will allow others to pursue legal action against Israel for alleged war crimes — as has happened in Europe — have filed briefs opposing their suit.“There will be a rash of lawsuits of this kind against Israel” if the court rules for the plaintiffs, warned Alyza Lewin, an attorney with the firm of Lewin & Lewin, which has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in favor of Samantar and against making foreign officials vulnerable to civil lawsuits. The brief was filed on behalf of four Jewish groups: the Zionist Organization of America, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Agudath Israel of America, and the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.It is an unusual setting, one in which pro-Israel activists are siding with the Saudi government — which has also filed a brief on behalf of Samantar — while pitting themselves against international human-rights advocates. Furthermore, this battle also puts the Jewish community on the side of those seeking to limit international jurisdiction after years of fighting to broaden the ability to sue foreign entities in order to go after terror groups and their sponsoring states.

Center for jihad apologist (CJA) Files Respondents' Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in general Mohamad Ali Samantar v. Yousuf Member of (SNM)Terrorist Somali National Movement (SNM)

General Mohamed Ali Samatar, Former vice president and Prime minister of Somalia
Samantar moved to dismiss the 2004 lawsuit on grounds of immunity provided under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which protects foreign governments in most cases from legal action in the United States. But in January 2009, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the case, ruling that this immunity applies not to individuals but only to governments and their agencies. A Washington circuit court had previously reached the opposite conclusion. The Supreme Court’s ruling is expected to resolve the dueling decisions.For Jewish communal officials, the Samantar case set off alarm bells. The Jewish groups that filed the brief cite more than 1,000 cases of lawsuits against Israeli officials around the world as part of an effort that Israeli leaders dub “lawfare” — a campaign to take Arab human-rights grievances against Israel to international courtrooms...more..http://www.forward.com/articles/122213/
Some background

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Here's my take.I did some research on the Case argument before the Supreme Court of the United States,

Find Out 3 ThingsThere is no evidence what so ever. There is no evidence SAMATER was involved. There is no evidence of crime was committed against this man claiming to be victim

also  “I've come to find out   fourteen year old girl daughter one of  The  Highest Ranking Senior Somali National Military Officer was kidnapped at gunpoint, and gang-raped, responding to the brutal gang rape of a minor... Some elements Somali military forces take action against people in connection with the case.  People in connection gang –raped...  It was a hate crime... crime motivated by Somalia tribalism.  

political disagreements, fighting broke out somalia

In April 1981, a group of Isaaq emigrés living in London formed the Snm .. On January 8, 1982 Somali National Movement