The United States House of Representatives will reportedly vote this week on a bill allowing families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudia Arabia, a Republican leadership source told Politico Wednesday.
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September 6, 2016 (EIRNS)-The Wall Street Journal published an hysterical appeal to the House of Representatives today, that it block passage of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) which would allow lawsuits to be filed against Saudi Arabia for its role in carrying out the 9/11 attack on the United States. The families, survivors, and other citizens will be present: to either thank Ryan for scheduling the vote, or to publicly reprimand him, if he has failed to do so, it reports.
Saudi Arabia has long denied such allegations and campaigned hard against the bill – but supporters shrugged off that pressure, arguing that if Saudis had done nothing wrong, they had nothing to worry about.
Representative Peter King of NY, the House sponsor of the measure, said in an interview that the House is likely to vote on Friday and send the measure to the president’s desk.
Earlier this year, House Speaker Paul Ryan, who visited several Mideast countries in April, raised concerns about the impact the bill could have on United States relations with its allies.
Lobbyists for Saudi Arabia are pressing lawmakers to vote against the measure, and in May threatened to remove billions of dollars from the United States if the bill becomes law. The bill’s authors have said the threat is a bluff. But a Senate Democratic aide says that the measure likely has enough congressional support to override a veto.
Saudi Arabia has never been formally implicated in the attacks, but 15 of the 19 hijackers that carried them out were of Saudi descent.
Recently unclassified documents detail contact and support between some of the hijackers and individuals who may have been connected to the Saudi government. The report, written in 2002, was not conclusive, and the Saudi government has said there is no evidence that the USA ally was involved in the attacks. “It’s gratifying”, said King.
But some opponents say that would infringe on Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty.
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