SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
Saudi Arabia Threatens to Sell $750 Billion in US Assets If 9/11 Bill Passes
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 83 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2016, @01:05PM
And, there's probably just enough dirt, just enough innuendo and rumor and radically leaning family members to lend credence to claims that the Royal Family did back the attacks.
Over a decade ago the House of Saud was roughly 30,000 people. [theatlantic.com] Even the upper tier, official princes, number at least 4,000. Any group that large is going to have outliers in all directions.