Heideman Lezell Nudelman & Kalik, PC Files Complaint Against the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Liberation Organization, and Yasser Arafat for the Murder of Esther Klieman.

WASHINGTON -- Washington attorney Richard D. Heideman of Heideman Lezell Nudelman & Kalik, PC and Steven R. Perles of The Perles Law Firm, PC, have filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Palestinian Authority ("PA"), the Palestinian Liberation Organization ("PLO"), Yasser Arafat and others on behalf of the Estate of Esther Klieman, a 23-year-old US citizen who was shot in the heart and killed by members of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a terrorist cell of the Fatah Terrorist Organization. The suit alleges that the terrorist group conducted a machine-gun terrorist attack near Neme Tzuf, Israel near Jerusalem. Ms. Klieman was on an Israeli bus, on her way to teach special needs children.

Plaintiffs allege that as leader of the PA, the PLO and various terrorist organizations, including Fatah, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Tanzim and Force 17, Arafat is responsible for the murder of Ms. Klieman and the injuries suffered by her family as a direct result thereof.

In the Complaint, Plaintiffs also allege that Arafat, the PA and the PLO provided material and financial support to the terrorist organizations by supplying shelter and safe haven to multitudes of their members suspected of or charged with terrorist murders, including that of Esther Klieman. Furthermore, Plaintiffs allege that Arafat, the PA and the PLO provided the terrorists with rewards and assistance.

The Complaint charges that Arafat, the PA and the PLO provided the terrorists with a base of operations, shelter and financial assistance as well as other forms of material support and resources, in violation of federal counter-terrorism statutes for their acts of unlawful international terrorism resulting in the murder of Esther Klieman.