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Former Sen. Bob Graham calls Saudi Arabia’s threat to U.S. Congress ‘reprehensible but also reveali
Source: New York Daily News
Former Sen. Bob Graham calls Saudi Arabia’s threat to U.S. Congress ‘reprehensible but also revealing’
BY REUVEN BLAU NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, April 17, 2016, 2:49 PM
Saudi Arabian officials are hotly against a bill to make it easier for families of 9/11 victims to sue because they are worried the kingdom’s ties to the World Trade Center terrorists would be revealed during a trial, said former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, who co-chaired a joint congressional investigation into the attacks.
“I think the action by Saudi Arabia is reprehensible and also very revealing,” Graham told the Daily News. “They are so fearful of what would emerge if there were to be a full trial. That says something about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11.”
Graham, who left Capitol Hill in 2005, also slammed the Obama administration.
“I think it’s even more objectionable that the U.S. government has been supporting Saudi Arabia and erecting roadblocks to the passage of the legislation.”
The Saudi Arabian government has threatened to sell $750 billion in Treasury securities and other assets in the United States should the U.S. Congress pass a bill that could hold the kingdom responsible for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to a New York Times report on Friday.
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BY REUVEN BLAU NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, April 17, 2016, 2:49 PM
Saudi Arabian officials are hotly against a bill to make it easier for families of 9/11 victims to sue because they are worried the kingdom’s ties to the World Trade Center terrorists would be revealed during a trial, said former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, who co-chaired a joint congressional investigation into the attacks.
“I think the action by Saudi Arabia is reprehensible and also very revealing,” Graham told the Daily News. “They are so fearful of what would emerge if there were to be a full trial. That says something about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11.”
Graham, who left Capitol Hill in 2005, also slammed the Obama administration.
“I think it’s even more objectionable that the U.S. government has been supporting Saudi Arabia and erecting roadblocks to the passage of the legislation.”
The Saudi Arabian government has threatened to sell $750 billion in Treasury securities and other assets in the United States should the U.S. Congress pass a bill that could hold the kingdom responsible for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to a New York Times report on Friday.
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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ex-sen-graham-calls-saudi-arabia-threat-u-s-revealing-article-1.2604613
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will get this country back on track. Bob Graham is very courageous to take this issue head on.
