The man who assembled much of the evidence in the world’s first terrorism finance trial, underway in the Southern District of New York against Arab Bank PLC, is a shy, misplaced historian named Gary Osen. Osen finished his dual degrees in law and history at George Washington University in 1993. He wrote his master ‘s thesis on America’s undeclared naval warfare of 1940, and was the first to unearth Franklin Roosevelt’s shoot-on-sight orders. “I like to be the first to see documents,” he said.
On the day after the attacks of Sept . 11, 2001, Osen learned of a New Jersey neighbor whose husband had been killed at the World Trade Center and needed legal advice. Osen was already an expert on historical reparations for Holocaust victims — a passion developed with his father Max, who fled Germany as a Jewish child in 1937 and returned as an American liberator in 1945.
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