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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I doubt Aramco would be brought to market in the United States at all, given what the Saudis are saying about selling US Treasuries.
You mean the scrap price?
I want congressional hearing now and I want bush and obama to tell us why this murdering regime was protected and I don’t mean maybe!!
You might like this:
Dear Saudi Arabian Ambassador,
Washington DC,
I just read on the Drudge Report that all you royal goat herders in Saudi Arabia, (while taking a break from beheading women in the public square) have told the Kenyan - ISIS Commander, the Muslim Imam Obama, his administration and the members of Congress that;
You 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.
You must be getting pretty nervous that I have put a ton of political pressure on my SEAL and veteran pals in the Congress to declassify those 28 pages in the 9/11 commission report that, will show, without a doubt, that your nation funded and provided material support for the attack on our nation.
Only a guilty nation would make such a preemptive statement like yours unless you fear being found guilty as per the 28 pages...... and the information contained inside it.
In fact why don’t you all start packing up all your camel blankets and roll up your Thawbs, Sirwals, Taqiyah’s, Kufeya’s and Ghutra’s and plan on moving out of our nation sooner rather than later.
Take all the Qurans with you and don’t forget to pay all the parking infractions your diplomats have incurred while in our nation at the unconstitutionally tax payer funded United Nations.
Please, also discontinue sending money to all our universities and we in turn will discontinue buying your oil. I also call upon the Congress to discontinue all weapons sales and military training to Saudi Arabia.
We also want you Mr. Saudi Ambassador to stop providing financial support to all the mosques springing up all over our free Republic. Islam does not assimilate into a nation that is free like the United States.
Your King refuses to permit churches to be built in your nation so I feel its time we dismantle all the mosques in ours. That’s the next step.
Now I understand that Obama’s shoe shine boy and dry cleaning runner Paul Ryan (R-WI) did use our tax payer money to fund the State Department’s massive immigration of Syrian Muslims into our nation currently underway.
Catholic Charities will be very busy now and will I am sure become very rich as they pick up their cash payments from the state dept. to help the Imam Obama bring into this nation a standing army of 100,000 non vetted Syrian males.
In January 2017 President Trump will sign an executive order to return all these potential Muslim terrorists back to the Middle East. Tell your boys not to unpack.
Mr. Saudi Ambassador, we don’t give a camel’s armpit if you start selling off your assets in this nation. In fact we, the majority of Americans in this nation welcome the move.
Right now Obama is protecting you as did Bush before him. Those times will be soon changing as we expose the fake war on terror.
Also, the United States military will soon no longer be used by the Saudi Royal family as its personal police force and protector.
You and your Sharia Law crap are not welcome in this nation. To better assist you in your move back to your land of camel breeding and sand dunes I offer you a link to www.expedia.com
Cheers,
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Geoff Ross
Surface Warfare Air Warfare
United States Navy retired
Wouldn't it be better all around to just blow them to hell?
Don’t the Saudis donate to Hilary and her ilk in DC? I think the money is thick and fast with the libs, no??
The saudis and emirates want the pipeline but syria, iraq, or iran are in the way. The Russians dont want the competition but before Putin they werent going to stand in the way. We were the only ones with enough muscle to clear the way yet something really big had to happen for the.American people to rally behind going to war. It’s pretty much that simple. Unlikely they will get their pipeline now.
OK...
National security?
Like millions of illegals and others from God knows where pouring into Middle America en-mass for decades?
I like it!!
all of it.
That’s what we should have done with Iran’s assets. Seize them and award them to the hostages and heirs. 100 new American billionaires.
Pass the bill now! The Saudis selling off $750 billion in treasuries should bump interest rates nicely! A job that Yellen refuses to do.
I’m a born and raised NYer. I and almost everyone I know agreed that so called Liberty Tower is a stupid looking piece of shiite and NEVER should have been built! Very sorry for the losses of your friends. I have friends that lost friends & my cousin lost her brother in law. And another cousin was trapped during the FIRST WTC bombing, but had sense enough to change jobs back then. Almost every New Yorker was affected in some way. Bastard Saudis!
It’s fun to hate oil monarchs
But I hate to break it to folks
What replaces them would be far worse
Think Arab Spring non success
Problem is the royal families and quasi peerage is huge and rich and hard to control where all the split revenues and monarch sanctioned business cash goes
Like Bin Laden construction
The irony is some House of Saud economy goes to those who wish to take them down
On Hannity’s Fox News Channel show last Friday, Cruz said he has read the 28 pages, but is not allowed to disclose the contents. But Cruz said he believes that it should be declassified and released.
I fear for Trump’s life ( & his family) too. The PTB are NOT gonna let him rule over them.
Conspiracy Theory meets Cult of Personality...
it’s ugly as hell and the designer was a left wing weirdo.
sorry for your losses also.
seems like a million years ago and yesterday all at the same time.
In a “supposedly” free and open society, under the most transparent government we’ve ever had , Americans deserve to know. Are we so fragile as a people we cannot handle the truth? Of course not, but this is how our government treats us. Traitors! They know full well what will happen if we the people see intelligence definitively linking the Saudi government to this unprovoked jap on our innocence. We would call for WAR against Saudi Arabia or very least forced removal of the house of Saud.
Let me remember who is the only candidate that mentioned the secret pages and Saudi - was it TRUMP !!! ? You betcha.
Please go ahead and sell us back your assets on pennies on the dollar - I dare you !
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