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Saudi Arabia threatens to pull $750 billion in U.S. assets if Congress passes bill making its government liable for 9/11-related lawsuits
Big long Daily Mail article. Here are the highlights:
- The administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the legislation
- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Juberi told Washington lawmakers the country would be forced to sell $750 billion in Treasury securities
- The revelations come as President Obama decided whether to declassify 28 pages of sealed 9/11 documents
- White House will make a decision by June
- Bush and Obama administrations have refused to unseal the documents, arguing their release would jeopardize national security
- Suggestions the files could expose a Saudi connection to the attacks
- 15 of the 19 hijackers - and Osama bin Laden - were from Saudi Arabia
- President Obama will arrive in Riyadh on Wednesday for meetings with King Salman and other Saudi officials
Posted by: gorb 2016-04-18 |
