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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Jonathan Stempel

HSBC not liable for al-Qaeda suicide attack at CIA base -US appeals court

FILE PHOTO: HSBC logo is seen on a branch bank in the financial district in New York, U.S., Aug. 7, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

A divided U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said HSBC Holdings Plc was not liable to the families of two American contractors killed in an al-Qaeda suicide bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan, after the bank allegedly evaded U.S. sanctions targeting sponsors of terrorism.

Dane Paresi and Jeremy Wise were among nine killed when Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a doctor, blew himself up by detonating hidden explosives at Camp Chapman on Dec. 30, 2009.

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