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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That’s a very loud and public GUILTY PLEA!!!!!
Can’t say I blame them for wanting to get out of the dollar...I wish we could too.
Quote:
“Cosmopolitanism is slowly coming home to roost. Our so called leadership has led us to the brink of ruin. “
You can’t have a totalitarian “World Government” without first destroying the world’s most powerful national government. That task is nearing completion.
The Conservative hero, the late William E. Simon (whose books I read btw...), allowed the Saudis to keep these assets secret, now we’ll see what they are when the Saudis withdraw their money from them.
Probably another thing that Mrs. Clinton is covering up.
While Saudis are ridding themselves of U.S. assets, they need to take all muslims home to Mohammad’s Holy Sand Land. Reclaim them all. Free us from the tyranny of terrorists.
Saudi prince in charge of their economy has stated that they will diversify away from dependence on oil as the mainstay of their livelihood. Saudi Aramco is to issue an IPO and the stock sales used to establish a fund supporting a move toward an industrial and manufacturing based economy.
Law-fare interrupting access to banking and other financial markets would place the kingdom into a greater bind. At present the countries monetary reserves are dwindling, the reserves providing three? years support, unless a war takes a further toll. The shoe’s on the other foot for a change.
Pass the bill. It is about time the Saudi Arabia cult got some real crap in their face. Then pull all of our military and civilian assets out of this damn Country.
Trump for President.
To understand why 911 happened you have to look at it as a crime not an attack. Any cop will tell you to look at the motive, who benefits and why?
The refugee incidents are the latest shots in a 1500 year old war.
They don't directly fund terrorist organizations. Rather, they give money to radical clerics to prove their religious bona fides to the Arab world, and then those clerics give that money to organizations like Al Quaeda and to jihadi groups around the world.
you MOTHER ########s killed three THOUSAND PEOPLE in two of the most magnificent buildings in the world and took two firefighter friends from me you pieces of muslim #####!!!!!!
Sell everything and go @#$@#$ YOURSELVES!!!!!
I hope the next president abandons you and Russia turns you into a glowing mass!!!!! Like we should have but someone moved the sign towards Iraq!!
You ARROGANT MOTHERS!!!!!
They were beautiful. I loved working in them and was in awe of them every time I stood at their base.
And you took them!!!!!
BTW, Trump was one of the FEW who wanted to rebuild them exactly as they were!!! Which almost all of us wanted!!!
but the families didn’t.
So we got this funny looking Pin shaped thing sticking into the air, designed by some freak.
Hey, Saudi Arabia, go ##### yourself.
do you go to church on the sundays they handle the rattlesnakes?
classic Faustian bargain.
well said
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