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2d SERIES mainly banks in Arab and Islamic coun- tries. Ashton Complaint 11583; Burnett Complaint 147. It also has banks in Chi- cago, Illinois and Houston, Texas. Bur- nett Complaint II 47. Al Baraka allegedly provided financial infrastructures in Sudan to Osama bin Laden through Defendant charity Al

S ON SEPTEMBER IL 2001 ate 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

EPTEMBER 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.

utory foreign sovereign immunity and protecting a sovereign’s or sovereign’s agency’s legitimate claim to immunity from discovery.” First City, Texas—Houston, N.A. v. Rafidain Bank, 150 F.3d 172, 176 (2d Cir.1998) (ordering full discovery against defendant over whom court al- ready had subject matter juris

hesitant to subject Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to discovery. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1602 et seq. 3 Cases that cite this headnote Attorneys and Law Firms *345 Andrew J. Maloney, II, Blanca I. Rodriguez, Brian J. Alexander, *546 David Beekman, David C. Cook, Francis G. Fleming, James P. Kreindler, Justin Timothy Green, Lee S.

garding NCB’s FSIA defense would necessarily subject the Kingdom to discovery, which the Court is hesitant to do unnecessarily. See First City, Texas—Houston, N.A. v. Rafidain Bank, 150 F.3d 172, 176 (2d Cir.1998); see also Arriba Ltd. v. Petroleos Mexicanos, 962 F.2d 528, 534 (Sth Cir.1992) (recommending