Senate passes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to file lawsuits seeking damages from Saudi Arabia, setting up a potential showdown with the White House, which has threatened a veto.

The Saudis, who deny responsibility for the 2001 attacks, strongly object to the bill and have threatened to sell up to $750 billion in U.S. securities and other American assets in retaliation if it becomes law.

The "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act," or JASTA, passed the Senate by unanimous voice vote. It must next be taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives, where no vote has yet been scheduled.

Cornyn said it was up to the court to decide whether the Saudis were liable. "I don't believe that this will be destructive of the relationship that we have with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia," he said.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-senate-passes-bill-allowing-sept-11-victims-163810658.html

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About time we have learn the lesson the hard way, but I want to read declassify 28 pages of a US intelligence report first, we knew all along the kingdom was behind sept11, despite all info we went and destroy other countries but they will not teach Saudi a lesson but just want compensation.

[Meat-Head]

Bet they just get 2 camels & a bag of cement

[GastonJ]

The US billed Saudi and other Arab states $36 billion for operation desert shield. Do you expect the US not to send out such bills?

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Oh, off tooic, you got a copy of the invoice, please?

[ifred]

Bet they just get 2 camels & a bag of cement

the most sensible comment in the whole thread MH +1 the rest -1

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Bet they just get 2 camels & a bag of cement

Never thought they had cement!!!

[ifred]

Thought you knew SJ having been abroad and all that! Two camels = lots of need the cement for something

[GastonJ]

You can buy lots of bullsh*t, and a lot more oil at cost price, with $34 billion. I bet the Saudi's are still paying. That aside the UK is paying around ?200 million a year to bomb ISIS in Iraq. Why are the UK taxpayers footing the bill for that?

Oh, off tooic, you got a copy of the invoice, please?

At least the invoice that that will be produced, unlike teh invoices for the WMD's that were sold to Iraq by 'the west'. Wonder where Maggie hid the invoices, down a collapsed coal mine perhaps?