SYDNEY Feb 10 Kyodo Six Australia...

SYDNEY Feb 10 Kyodo

Six Australians will prosecute financiers and supporters of the al-Qaida network for its alleged part in the Bali bombing in a joint multi-trillion dollar legal action in the United States that includes victims of the clan 11, 2001, terror attacks, lawyers representing the claim said Monday.

Five relatives of Australians who died in the Oct 12 Bali bombing and undivided who suffered serious injuries in it have joined the class action, U lawyer Richard Middleton said in Melbourne.

More than 190 family including 88 Australians were killed in the blast. Indonesia has detained more than a dozen suspects, one of whom are believed to have links with Jemaah Islamiyah, the alleged Southeast Asian arm of al-Qaida.

Middleton and lead admonition Ron Motley, known for winning a $350 billion award against tobacco companies, have filed the suit subject to U.S. law, which allows civil claims against those responsible for international crimes, including petitions onward behalf of non-U.S. citizens, Middleton said in a statement.

Victims' families from at least 19 other countries are eligible to join the Bali claim, which is being fought upon a contingency basis without any take away from to the plaintiffs unless the action is prosperous he said.

Despite the possibility that families taking legal action could receive ''substantial compensation,'' mostly were doing so to ''strike back at terrorism,'' Middleton said. ''The [i]or[/i] complement is to bankrupt terrorism from exposing those who finance terror and stripping them of their assets. In this way, the action can help thwart it happening again.''

The action will be brought against wealthy Saudi individuals, banks, corporations and Islamic charities implicated in the financing of al-Qaida, he said.

''Lawyers have foreshadowed they will add up to 5000 more defendants to the action as further evidence come forths about the supporters of terrorism.''

Legal proceedings began Aug. 15 when lawyers filed a class action suit in succession behalf of hundreds of tribe 11 victims in the Washington DC District Court.

The class action look afters $1 trillion in damages from seven international banks, eight Islamic foundations, Islamic charities and their subsidiaries, individual terrorist financiers, the Saudi bin Laden assign places to three Saudi princes, and the control of Sudan for bankrolling al-Qaida, its leader Osama bin Laden and the former Taliban regime of Afghanistan, a Web site for the Bali claim states.

The six Australian families that have already joined the claim met with Middleton onward Saturday, The Australian newspaper reported Monday.

They include bombing survivor Jake Ryan, from the Southport Sharks football society on the Gold Coast, and Dave Stewart, who exhausted weeks in Bali searching for the remains of his 29-year-old son Anthony.

''This will none bring Anthony back,'' Stewart told the newspaper, ''but if we stop the funding to the terrorists, we might save a other lives.''

''Everyone is still hurting from Bali, from the family and friends they forfeited It might not mean earnestly but freezing these terrorists' assets could stop other families going by means of what we have,'' he said.

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