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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2016, @05:38AM
Really? Offtopic? SN is dying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2016, @09:40AM
You didn't know? It would have been even worse, if you had merely mentioned that things like, for instance, Plutonium or certain by-products of nuclear power generation are highly radioactive.