Allan Gerson
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Allan Gerson was an American attorney, based in Washington DC, with a practice focused on international law, and government accountability. He was known for bringing Libya's Muammar Qaddafi to compensate the families of the victims of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which was the largest terror attack against the United States prior to 9/11. Together with attorney Mark Zaid he helped pass the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act to change the laws of sovereign immunity and enable suits against foreign sovereignties who participated in financing or planning terrorist activity.. He led families of 9/11 victims "to file suit against various ''interests'' associated with the government of Saudi Arabia, alleging that they helped finance Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network".
