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Saudi Arabia Threatens to Sell $750 Billion in US Assets If 9/11 Bill Passes

posted by takyon on Sunday April 17 2016, @12:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the idle-threat dept.

JNCF writes:

The New York Times reports (and Yahoo! News repeats without any paywall) that the government of Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell $750 billion in treasury securities and other unidentified assets if Congress passes the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The bill would allow foreign governments to be sued by 9/11 victims and their families. The threat was issued by Saudi Arabian foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir to unnamed US lawmakers while he was visiting Washington sometime last month, on the grounds that these assets could be in danger of being frozen by US courts.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by boxfetish on Sunday April 17 2016, @04:30AM

    by boxfetish (4831) on Sunday April 17 2016, @04:30AM (#333124)

    I say pass the bill and let them sell off the assets. We should have stopped having any relationship (diplomatic, cultural, or economic) with this true axis of evil a long time ago. This will give us the excuse to sever ties.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by tftp on Sunday April 17 2016, @05:37AM

    by tftp (806) on Sunday April 17 2016, @05:37AM (#333149) Homepage

    We should have stopped having any relationship (diplomatic, cultural, or economic) with this true axis of evil a long time ago.

    Drop cultural relations? NFW! How could we even exist without their sculptures and paintings that depict people and animals [stackexchange.com]? Without their opera, without their photography [blogspot.com], and, finally, without their movies [quora.com] and their beautiful actresses... Oh horror!