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IN RE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 779 Cite as 349 F.Supp.2d_ 765 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) permit inference that he provided support to al Qaeda. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2331 et seq. Andrew J. Maloney, III, Blanca I. Rod- riguez, Brian J. Alexander, David Beek- man, David C. Cook, Francis G. Fleming, James P. Kreindler, Justin Timothy Green, Lee S. Kreindler, Mare 8. Moller, Milton G. Sincoff, Noah H. Kushlefsky, Paul 8. Edelman, Robert James Spragg, Steven R. Pounian, Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, Elliot R. Feldman, J. Scott Tarbutton, John M. Popilock, Sean P. Car- ter, Stephen A. Cozen, Cozen O’Connor (Philadelphia), Philadelphia, PA, for Plain- tiffs. David P. Gersch, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Donna M. Sheinbach, Michael D. McNeely, Nancy Luque, Steven A. Mad- dox, Gray Cary Ware and Friedenrich LLP (DC), Mitchell Rand Berger, Ronald Stanley Liebman, Patton Boggs LLP (DC), Martin Francis McMahon, Stephanie Wall Fell, Martin F. McMahon and Associ- ates, Thomas Peter Steindler, McDermott, Will and Emery (DC), James Ernest Gauch, Jennifer Allyson Shumaker, Jona- than Chapman Rose, Melissa Danielle Stear, Michael Peter Gurdak, Michael Rol- lin Shumaker, Stephen Joseph Brogan, Timothy John Finn, Jones Day (DC), Louis Richard Cohen, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington), William Horace Jeffress, Jr., Christopher R. Cooper, Sara E. Kropf, Jamie S. Kilberg, Baker Botts LLP (DC), Christopher Mark Curran, White & Case LLP (DC), David Charles Frederick, John Christopher Rozendaal, Mark Charles Hansen, Michael John Guz- man, Michael K. Kellogg, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans PLLC (DC), Law- rence Saul Robbins, Robbins Russell Eng- lert Orseck & Untereiner LLP, Washing- ton, DC, Jean Engelmayer Kalicki, Arnold & Porter, LLP, John Joseph Walsh, Car- ter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, Omar T. Mohammedi, Law Office of Omar T. Mo- hammedi, Brian Howard Polovoy, Shear- man & Sterling LLP (New York), Geoffrey S. Stewart, Michael Bradley, Jones Day, Matthew Phineas Previn, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, L.L.P., T. Barry Kingham, Curtis, Mallet—Prevost, Colt and Mosle LLP, New York City, Wilmer Parker, ITI, Gillen Parker and Withers LLC, Atlanta, GA, Lynne Bernabei, Alan R. Kabat, Ber- nabei & Katz, PLLC, Washington, DC, for Defendants. Michael J. Sommi, Cozen O’Connor, New York City, for Movants. Opinion and Order CASEY, District Judge. On September 11, 2001, nineteen mem- bers of the al Qaeda terrorist network hijacked four United States passenger air- planes and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and—due to passengers’ efforts to foil the hijackers—an open field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Thousands of people on the planes, in the buildings, and on the ground were killed in those attacks, countless oth- ers were injured, and billions of dollars of property was destroyed. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, on De- cember 9, 2003 the Multidistrict Litigation Panel centralized six then-pending Sep- tember 11-related cases before this Court “for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings.” Additional actions, that are not the subject of this opinion, have since been filed. Plaintiffs in these consolidated actions are more than three thousand sur- vivors, family members, and representa- tives of victims, and insurance carriers seeking to hold responsible for the attacks the persons and entities that supported and funded al Qaeda. The complaints al- HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017844