Posted on 04/16/2016 7:55:04 AM PDT by mandaladon
Saudi Arabia has reportedly told the Obama administration and congressional leaders that it will sell billions of dollars in U.S. financial assets if Congress passes a bill to make the Saudi government legally responsible for any role in the 9/11 attacks.
The administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the legislation, a bipartisan Senate bill, since Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir last month told Washington lawmakers his country’s position, according to The New York Times.
Al-Juberi purportedly informed the lawmakers during a trip to Washington that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell as much as $750 billion in Treasury securities and other American financial assets on the world market, fearing the legislation could become law and U.S. courts would then freeze the assets.
The revelations about the Saudis’ ultimatum come several days after reports that President Obama will soon decide whether to declassify 28 pages of sealed documents suspected of showing a Saudi connection to the deadly 9/11 terror attacks.
Former Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham told Fox News on Tuesday that the White House told him a decision on whether to declassify the documents would be made within 60 days.
Graham helped lead a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks.
The Bush and Obama administrations have refused to unseal the documents, arguing their release would jeopardize national security. Critics claim the reluctance is a calculated move to hide Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the al Qaeda terror attack that killed almost 3,000 people on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001.
Obama had come under renewed pressure to release the documents ahead of a scheduled trip next week to Saudi Arabia for a summit of Persian Gulf leaders.
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BUSH LIED TO THIS COUNTRY!!Why? Invade Iraq? Let the Saudis off? I want him to explain on TV!!
Maybe it’s something as banal as for money.
IT is an admission, isn’t it.
I’m not 33 anymore like I was when it happened. Took me four hours the next day to get to Rockefeller plaza.
The mangled heap I would see for years on the bus detour to work.
They will SELL their assets. We should destroy their assets.
Sounds like somebody’s scared about the presidential race.
you and I are going to be pals :)
When I watch that day,(911) I cry. I don’t cry much . I am so pissed at these Saudi bastards -— so pissed. And I want explanation real quick from our crap government. What the hell is this?
I hope so. I don’t need more enemies but that is their choice. They can live with it — I can.
I don’t watch it.
I lived it. That’s enough.
bush was in the sauds’ pockets and they got away with horrific murders.
Our time will come. You’ll see.
I think your right. For God sakes , was it campaign contribution? Jesus, our Savior.
I did not live it except in my soul. God bless what you went through. God Bless this country.
>The US hasn’t had a national government representing American interests since the late 80’s
Off by ~70 yrs. Wilson, FDR...there’s the grease on the skids to the Socialist bent (Teddy didn’t help, but @ least he understood we are NOT hyphenated-Americans).
Amen.
SCREW THEM!! TAKE IT ALL!! They paid for the flight lessons? Oh just wait. This is beyond huge!!
Congress, since they legally have insider trading knowledge.
That is treason!!
INVADE THOSE BASTARDS !! GO TRUMP!!I’LL GO!!
So what?
If we Nuked all of their major cities.... would there be anyone left to sell the assets??
US has been on that path far longer than the Bushes, although they deserve some credit for worsening it.
I know a few people who crawled through the mess on one of the floors at the Pentagon. They lived.
They want to play chicken with us, let them play chicken with us.
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