Posted on 04/16/2016 4:44:08 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout from the legislation.
Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally last month during a trip to Washington, telling lawmakers that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.
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For God’s sake.
Publish the truth.
Screw Saudi Arabia.
Ask Donald what to do. Saudis will not intimidate him.
I agree. Let the chips fall. Saudi Arabia made a deal with the devil (funding international Salafism/terror networks, in exchange for security at home) and we are fools to play the mark.
If this rock ever does get flipped over, bugs frantically scurrying for the nearest dark place won't be a surprise, but the types and quantities may qualify.
Mr. niteowl77
It’s way passed time to disclose this information to the American people!
Freeze their assets now...then pass the law. The barbarians have been screwing US for decades.
Wonder if congress will do what is right, or will they begin to dance with the devil?
Absolutely!
All of this necessary “sunshine” will likely have to wait for the new administration and only then if it’s Trump’s.
I don’t see POTUS Trump cowering to the House of Saud.
Amen!!! I’m sick of these savage animals.
Sure, there may be pain for the US.
However, I think America is long, long overdue in paying the piper.
We need to take our medicine, endure the suffering, and get on with life anew.
That’s a certainty.
Those damn Saudi’s fund anti-American Moslem schools right here in the USA.
IMHO, they’re NOT friends of ours.
Of course. How many times have we been told “sometimes the truth hurts, but tell the truth regardless?”
We have long suspected Saudi Arabia’s involvement anyway, given that 19 of the mass murdering hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. THAT was NOT a coincidence.
Our esteemed representatives dance with the devil? Preposterous! Next you'll be susuggesting that George Bush (your choice) would kiss a Saudi in public, or that Barack Obama would bow to one, or Hillary would have one as a body servant (or is it the other way around), or John McCain would rent our military to one, or…
Mr. niteowl77
“actually islam means submission or else”....ditto for liberalism- ironic...
This is when I wish Trump was already President.
If a U.S. court of law determines that Saudi Arabia had any involvement in 9/11 and awards monetary damages to any Americans in the process, doesn't this mean George W. Bush and a bunch of people from his administration ... along with most members of Congress at the time ... along with all of the same people in the Clinton and first Bush administrations ... should be on trial for war crimes?
Wouldn't a court decision like this be a formal admission that the U.S. was on the wrong side all the way back in 1990?
Or something like that.
Wake me up when any of this makes sense.
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