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Saudi Arabia warns of economic fallout if US Congress passes 9/11 bill
NYT News Service ^ | 4/16/2016 | Mark Mazetti

Posted on 04/17/2016 6:46:44 PM PDT by EagleUSA

WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of US Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of American assets held by the kingdom if lawmakers pass a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the September 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 inten se 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. .

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: extortion; policy; weakness
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Obama: an easy weakling. Muslims, you know.
1 posted on 04/17/2016 6:46:44 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

The actual link:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Saudi-Arabia-warns-of-economic-fallout-if-US-Congress-passes-9/11-bill/articleshow/51860942.cms


2 posted on 04/17/2016 6:48:59 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Saudi Arabia needs the money


3 posted on 04/17/2016 6:50:11 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EagleUSA

Open blackmail.


4 posted on 04/17/2016 6:51:45 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: EagleUSA
So we find out what the Saudi government had to do with 9/11, our corporations can be released from the chains of Saudi ownership (I'm looking at you, Fox) and we can pick up shares of stock on sale. Triple win!
5 posted on 04/17/2016 6:51:53 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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To: EagleUSA

Meanwhile it’s said their economy will collapse in about five years.


6 posted on 04/17/2016 6:54:52 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: EagleUSA
Bring it, Saudi Arabia.

If we can survive 7 years of your favorite son, Bathhouse Barry, and his efforts to destroy our economy we can survive whatever you got.

7 posted on 04/17/2016 6:55:57 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: EagleUSA

I watched the 60 minutes piece again tonight and read the Paul Sperry article in the Post for the third time tonight. It is time for retribution, recrimination and occupation of SA. I want Bandar hung after a quick trial at the 911 Monument. Please watch the video at my Tag line. Tell us what you feel after doing so. There is hell to pay for the Saudi support of these godless bastards — INCLUDING FLYING LESSONS!!! Are we so dumbed down as a people that we are numb to this? Are we so weak ?


8 posted on 04/17/2016 6:56:00 PM PDT by WENDLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60V1TKHuq_0)
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“It is time for retribution, recrimination and occupation of SA.”

It’s far past time for that. Riyadh should have been a field of molten glass on Sept 12, 2001.


9 posted on 04/17/2016 7:02:28 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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You are right but this was hidden from us ( FOR MONEY!!)!! It was hidden by that sob bush and that muslim, obama. BUT IT IS NOT HIDDEN ANYMORE!! I want scorched earth. I want this paid military to engage and succeed. NOW!!


10 posted on 04/17/2016 7:06:21 PM PDT by WENDLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60V1TKHuq_0)
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To: EagleUSA

Bring er on towel heads!


11 posted on 04/17/2016 7:06:56 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: EagleUSA

Trump heard on an open mic: “My fellow Americans, we start bombing Mecca in 5 minutes.” ;o)


12 posted on 04/17/2016 7:09:37 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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And who did the Bush administration allow to flee the country by private jet while the entire country was a no fly zone ?...

Members of the Saudi Royal family who financed the attack !

13 posted on 04/17/2016 7:12:38 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: EagleUSA
it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of American assets held by the kingdom

IOW, it is no longer American assets.

14 posted on 04/17/2016 7:16:14 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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< Meanwhile it’s said their economy will collapse in about five years.

Payback for funding part of Obama's education and trying to bring about the destruction of the U.S. by installing a Muslim Mancharian Candidate...

15 posted on 04/17/2016 7:17:27 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: bgill

Assets they acquired in part by setting up shell companies on American soil to obtain large SBA loans to buy commercial property. Loans that many banks are now having a hell of a time trying to collect from borrowers that live overseas.


16 posted on 04/17/2016 7:22:15 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: EagleUSA

Stop their funding of Mosques in the US.


17 posted on 04/17/2016 7:25:01 PM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: EagleUSA

We need to bow some more...


18 posted on 04/17/2016 7:25:59 PM PDT by Homer1
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To: EagleUSA

I wonder if the Saudi’s realize that they own so many billions of US Treasury bonds that the sale of so many bonds essentially creates a huge liquidity problem for them. To sell that many bonds, they would either have to find a very limited number of willing buyers to do a private transaction, in which case they would do no damage to the US, or they would have to sell them in the open market and take a HUGE loss as selling that many bonds would drive the price per bond into the toilet.


19 posted on 04/17/2016 7:27:32 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: ncalburt

This is beyond my ability to process and I process really well . Let me say that I am highly educated ( despite my typing). We have absolute knowledge that Saudi Price Bandar was communicating with Anwar Alawaki ( who was directing the the attack on 9/11) . Anwar Alawaki directed Major Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood also) He was a US citizen from New Mexico and we killed him without a trial with a drone strike in Yemen-— (Praise JESUS!!) .
Bush meets with Bandar on September 13 , Two days after the GREATEST ATTACK ON OUR SOIL in HISTORY and agrees to fly Saudis out of the USA , at our expense with FBI ESCORTS!! You can’t make this fricken up!!
I want that country occupied for this!! I want BUSH IN PRISON!! I want you now to focus on the fact that Osama Bin Laden was a Wahhabi Sect Sunni from the royal family of those godless pig bastards. Then I want you to close your tear filled eyes ( like mine) and remember those buildings coming down and those people screaming on the phones to their loved ones and those Police and fire fighters dieing in the tons of falling towers because of Saudi Arabia. I want them to now pay. I want their OIL!!


20 posted on 04/17/2016 7:34:41 PM PDT by WENDLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60V1TKHuq_0)
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