U.S. company: crash lawsuit governed by Islamic law
Company is sister to N.C.-based Blackwater

RALEIGH - To defend itself against a lawsuit by the widows of three American soldiers who died on one of its planes in Afghanistan, a sister company of the private military firm Blackwater has asked a federal court to decide the case using the Islamic law known as Shari’a.

[b]The lawsuit “is governed by the law of Afghanistan,â€