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