9/11 bill passes US Senate despite Saudi 'warning' - BBC News
A bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government has passed a key hurdle in the US Senate.
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) now moves to the House of Representatives.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister warned that the move could cause his government to withdraw US investments.
President Barack Obama said he will veto the bill, but a Democratic senator is "confident" he'd be overruled.
If it became law the legislation would allow victims' families to sue any member of the government of Saudi Arabia thought to have played a role in any element of the attack.
Saudi Arabia denies any involvement in the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Fifteen out of the nineteen hijackers in 2001 were Saudi citizens.
"We said that a law like this is going to cause investor confidence to shrink," Foreign Minister Ahmed Al-Jubeir said while attending a conference in Geneva. "Not just for Saudi Arabia, but for everybody".
Last year an inmate in US custody, Zacarias Moussaoui, claimed that a Saudi prince had helped finance the attack that flew passenger planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Virginia.
see also http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/u...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
This article is full of interesting stuff - EXCLUSIVE- A Buried Envelope & Buried Questions: Your First Look Inside Declassified Document 17
A bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government has passed a key hurdle in the US Senate.
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) now moves to the House of Representatives.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister warned that the move could cause his government to withdraw US investments.
President Barack Obama said he will veto the bill, but a Democratic senator is "confident" he'd be overruled.
If it became law the legislation would allow victims' families to sue any member of the government of Saudi Arabia thought to have played a role in any element of the attack.
Saudi Arabia denies any involvement in the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Fifteen out of the nineteen hijackers in 2001 were Saudi citizens.
"We said that a law like this is going to cause investor confidence to shrink," Foreign Minister Ahmed Al-Jubeir said while attending a conference in Geneva. "Not just for Saudi Arabia, but for everybody".
Last year an inmate in US custody, Zacarias Moussaoui, claimed that a Saudi prince had helped finance the attack that flew passenger planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Virginia.
see also http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/u...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
This article is full of interesting stuff - EXCLUSIVE- A Buried Envelope & Buried Questions: Your First Look Inside Declassified Document 17
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