A lawsuit charging that notorious well-known Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt, Jr. facilitated Iraqi acts of terror by paying bribes is now being transferred to Wyatt's home turf.

On Thursday, in what appears to be a victory for Wyatt's defense team, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. agreed to toss the lawsuit over to the Southern District of Texas. Reasoned Judge Kennedy:

"The major activities associated with the surcharge scheme that underlies plaintiffs’ claims, including the execution of oil contracts, occurred in Houston."

This case is amazing, though perhaps a long shot. Odelia Abecassis and other plaintiffs claim Wyatt and several oil companies knowingly paid illegal surcharges to the Government of Iraq and knew that the surcharges would be used to support and promote terrorist attacks.

Surcharges. That's one word for it. Wyatt ultimately pled guilty and served time in prison on charges related to illegally paying millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein's regime in exchange for rights to Iraqi crude oil. According to the lawsuit, "defendants knew that the Saddam regime used this money to initiate a 'financial reward and incitement program which rewarded the families of ‘martyrs’ and suicide bombers' in an effort to “'incentivize' acts of terrorism."

Showing this knowledge, and demonstrating a link between the surcharges and the terrorist incentive program appears pretty challenging, to Suits & Sentences' amateurish way of thinking. In any event, it's now going to be resolved near Wyatt's neck of the woods.