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Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill
New York Times ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; arabia; bush; bushism; clinton; elections; obama; saudi; saudiarabia; saudiarabia911; trump; trumpwasright; twintowers
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To: VitacoreVision

I'm sure Obama will really let the Saudi's have it.

21 posted on 04/16/2016 5:52:29 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Alberta's Child

Damn..... how could a rational person get it so wrong?


22 posted on 04/16/2016 5:53:37 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson was my guy but now is a Trumplican)
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To: 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."

This one sentence totally explains the corruption of western politics and media.

23 posted on 04/16/2016 5:54:34 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Travis McGee

Jews making trouble


24 posted on 04/16/2016 5:55:56 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson was my guy but now is a Trumplican)
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To: Alberta's Child

George W. Bush had access to know Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11, but did and said nothing about it.

Why?


25 posted on 04/16/2016 5:56:06 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

Nullify the value of the securities and bonds in the same bill.


26 posted on 04/16/2016 5:57:37 AM PDT by Bobalu (I'm spitting on my hands, and hoisting the black flag!)
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To: bk1000

27 posted on 04/16/2016 5:58:41 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“Wonder if congress will do what is right, or will they begin to dance with the devil?”

Unfortunately, you know what the answer is.


28 posted on 04/16/2016 6:03:00 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: VitacoreVision; SunkenCiv

Too many people have read it so the document is practically in the public domain already.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/22982-former-senator-says-911-commission-report-implicates-saudis

Furthermore, the 9/11 Commission should have asked Fort Meade: Do you have any other info that is relevant?


29 posted on 04/16/2016 6:03:18 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: VitacoreVision

Sell them to the Chinese....


30 posted on 04/16/2016 6:05:07 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: VitacoreVision

I hope it’s no secret to anyone here on FreeRepublic that the U.S. government is basically a wholly-owned subsidiary of many corporate interests and foreign governments.


31 posted on 04/16/2016 6:09:05 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: VitacoreVision

imam zero will never allow it. pass the bill for president Trump to sign into law.


32 posted on 04/16/2016 6:10:20 AM PDT by HWGruene (REMEMBER THE ALAMO! Really, no kidding.)
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To: Alberta's Child
"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?"

I am not a truther, but I doubt Congress would pass legislation allowing disclosure simply because of the implications that our government and elected officials have not been true defenders of America.

33 posted on 04/16/2016 6:10:29 AM PDT by buckalfa (I am feeling much better now.)
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To: VitacoreVision

they better sell it off as they will be sued for it all.


34 posted on 04/16/2016 6:11:36 AM PDT by HWGruene (REMEMBER THE ALAMO! Really, no kidding.)
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To: VitacoreVision

It is really time to cut the cord with this despicable regime, and its repulsive Wahabbism.


35 posted on 04/16/2016 6:25:02 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

ISIS is proving that the fundamentalism of the Wahabbis are now merged with the spiritual violence of the Salafists, too.


36 posted on 04/16/2016 6:26:09 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: VitacoreVision

The bill is an anomaly in a Congress fractured by bitter partisanship, especially during an election year. It is sponsored by Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, and Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York. It has the support of an unlikely coalition of liberal and conservative senators, including Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, and Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas. It passed through the Judiciary Committee in January without dissent.


from the article.


37 posted on 04/16/2016 6:37:42 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Congress will continue to dance with the devil for their bribes and payoffs.


38 posted on 04/16/2016 6:38:35 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: Travis McGee

It is well nigh time, that my country, once unemcumbered by
foreign sources of anything, and birthed FROM a, ahem, kingdom, divorce itself from another kingdom, that has in fact, bloody hands in the assasination of over 3000 fellow Americans, civilians all, killed for foreign religious rites.


39 posted on 04/16/2016 6:42:03 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Travis McGee


40 posted on 04/16/2016 6:44:37 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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