Saudi Arabia Threatens to Wage Economic Warfare Against the United States over a Bill in Congress

President Obama is facing increased pressure from the families of victims of the September 11 attacks and a bipartisan bill in Congress called Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act that could hold Saudi Arabia responsible for any role in al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks. The president left on April 19, 2016 for a trip to the kingdom for meetings with King Salman and other Saudi officials. It is unclear whether the dispute over the September 11 legislation will be on the agenda for the talks.

Reuters reported on April 18, 2016 that the White House expressed confidence on April 17 that Saudi Arabia would not follow through on a reported threat to sell U.S. assets if Congress passed a bill that could hold the kingdom responsible for any role in al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir

Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally in March 2016 during a trip to Washington. He told members of Congress that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.

The New York Times reported on April 15, 2016 how Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir threatened Congress that the monarchy would sell its Treasury securities and other U.S. assets in response to the bill if it passed. Several economists are skeptical that the Saudis will follow through, stating that such a sell-off would be difficult to execute and would end up crippling the kingdom’s economy. But the threat is another sign of the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Mark Mazzetti, who wrote the article in The New York Times, explained that Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the World Trade Center on September 11 and who is part of a group of victims’ family members pushing for the legislation said “It’s stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own citizens,”

King Salman and members of the royal family

Mazzetti wrote the following: “The dispute comes as bipartisan criticism is growing in Congress about Washington’s alliance with Saudi Arabia, for decades a crucial American ally in the Middle East and half of a partnership that once received little scrutiny from lawmakers. Last week, two senators introduced a resolution that would put restrictions on American arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which have expanded during the Obama administration. Families of the Sept. 11 victims have used the courts to try to hold members of the Saudi royal family, Saudi banks and charities liable because of what the plaintiffs charged was Saudi financial support for terrorism. These efforts have largely been stymied, in part because of a 1976 law that gives foreign nations some immunity from lawsuits in American courts.”

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama did not support the legislation and would not sign it.

Josh Earnest said the legislation would unravel countries’ sovereign immunity, an important principle of international law that could pose larger legal consequences for individual Americans if that immunity is lost. If other countries were to adopt a similar law, it could put the United States and “its taxpayers” at risk, he said. “Given the long list of concerns that I’ve expressed about rolling back this core principle,” Earnest said it would be “difficult to imagine” the president signing the bill.

The legislation has bipartisan support. Senator John Cornyn, Republican from Texas and Charles Schumer Democrat from New York co-sponsored the bill. The senators argue that it would allow American citizens to recover damages from countries that have provided financial support to terror groups like al-Qaida.

The bipartisan bill would allow the Saudi government to be sued in a federal court for any role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that “I’m confident that the Saudis recognize, just as much as we do, our shared interest in preserving the stability of the global financial system.”

Obama, who opposes the bill, said the legislation it could expose the United States to lawsuits from citizens of other countries. In an interview broadcast on CBS News on April 17 the president said, “If we open up the possibility that individuals in the United States can routinely start suing other governments, then we are also opening up the United States to being continually sued by individuals in other countries.”

The debate over the congressional legislation has gained support on the presidential campaign. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, has broken with the Democratic administration and said she supported the bill.

Communist Senator Bernie Sanders, Democrat from Vermont, said he shared the Obama administration’s concern that the legislation could open up the United States to liability from other countries but said it was important to look into any potential Saudi role in the attacks. Sanders stated on NBC Today television broadcast that “I think it’s important to have a full investigation and an understanding of the role, the possible role, of the Saudi government in 9/11.”

Real estate magnate Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the race for the White House, dismissed concerns about a Saudi sell-off of U.S. assets. Trump told New York radio show host Joe Piscopo “That’s OK. Let’em sell ’em. And we’ll all buy them, Joe, that’s OK. … It’s called a fire sale, nothing better than a fire sale.”

The bill called Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act has 22 co-sponsors, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in January 2016, but it has not come up for a vote in the Republican-dominated Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office said on April 18 that no vote has been scheduled.

Family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks urged Obama to support the legislation and to bring up the issue on his trip. In a letter to Obama that was released to the media they said that “It is not acceptable … to succumb to the demands of a foreign government that we abandon principles of American justice while we pursue our diplomatic goals.”

Lindsey Graham blocks Saudi 9/11 bill

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina has placed a hold on legislation that would open the door for the relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia.

Senator Graham, who is a co-sponsor of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, put the hold on his own bill over concerns that new changes could expose the nation to legal attacks. Graham told reporters on April 19 that edits made last week by Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican from Alabama, might expand the scope potentially putting the United States at risk “of legal retaliation because of actions by individuals or unsavory allies.”

Senator Graham told reporters in the basement of the Senate the following: “I want to make sure that anything we do doesn’t come to bite us. Anything we do in this bill can be used against us later. So let’s say there’s a situation where you’ve got an American in a consulate or an embassy that’s got their own grudge against a government, we want to make sure that we’re not liable for that.”

Senator Sessions, for his part, suggested that he shared Graham’s underlying concerns about the potential for the bill to expose the nation to legal attacks. On April 19, Senator Sessions stated the following: “Ultimate responsibility for settling the issue ought to belong with the Obama administration. Generally you get leadership from the State Department. But when the chips were down, they never produced any real assistance. Somewhere along the line the president is going to need to review it, get his best team on it and if it’s not good for America, he should veto it or try to provide leadership.”

House of Representative Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, expressed skepticism on April 19 of the legislation. Ryan stated the following at a news conference: “I think we need to look at it. I think we need to review it to make sure we are not making mistakes with our allies and that we’re not catching people in this that shouldn’t be caught up in this.”

The royal family of Saudi Arabia provided logistical and financial assistance to some of the 9/11 al-Qaida terrorist and two United States presidents tolerated an act of war by Saudi Arabia.

Why is the federal government under two presidents protecting the Saudis? Do we need Saudi oil and gas so badly as to cover-up what the members of the royal family and many officials in Saudi Arabia did in providing financial and logistical assistance to the 9/11 Islamic terrorists? Why are we so afraid that we have tolerated this act of war from the Saudis? Have we become as weak as a superpower that we need Saudi Arabia as an ally? Saudi Arabia is not an ally of the United States when the royal family gave financial and logistical support to some of the al-Qaida terrorists who attack the United States.

This writer has a chapter in his new book called “Stop the Government Cover-up of the Participation of Saudi Arabia and Iran in the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.”

This writer explained in his book that federal agents involved in the case told investigative reporter and author Paul Sperry that they were repeatedly called off pursuing 9/11 leads back to the Saudi Embassy, which had curious sway over White House and FBI responses to the attacks.

Sperry pointed out that Bill Doyle, whose son, Joseph, was killed in the World Trade Center attacks and heads the Coalition of 9/11 Families, calls the suppression of Saudi evidence a “cover-up beyond belief.” He sent out an e-mail to relatives urging them to contact their representatives in Congress to support the resolution and read for themselves the censored 28 pages.

William Doyle said the following: “If we stop funding of terrorism and hold those people accountable, wouldn’t it make a dent in the financing of terrorism today?” Mr. Doyle pointed out that President Obama personally assured him after the death of Osama bin Laden that he would declassify that section of the report. Like many other promises Obama has made, he has not delivered on this one, betraying not only the relatives of the victims but also the nation.

Sperry was very surprised by the fact that few members of Congress have bothered to read the classified or censored 28-page section which is probably the most important investigation in U.S. history. The reporter would like members of Congress to put pressure on the White House to let all Americans read it. The information is still very important today.

Sperry said the following: “Pursuing leads further, getting to the bottom of the foreign support, could help head off another 9/11. It is also extremely important to know if Saudi Arabia can be trusted in the future as a United States ally when members of the royal family of the kingdom were responsible for funding Islamic terrorists who attacked our beloved country so viciously.”

Of course, Saudi Arabia is our enemy and not our ally. Our courts need to rule in favor of the members of the families of the victims and punish Saudi Arabia with tens of billions in punitive damages. President Obama needs to reassess our alliance with that treacherous corrupt monarchy with its perverse diabolical Wahhabi Islam religion.

Paul Sperry concluded his article saying that the 28 pages of the 9/11 report must be released, even if they forever change U.S.-Saudi relations. If an oil-rich foreign nation, such as Saudi Arabia, was capable of attacking the United States by orchestrating on our centers of commerce and defense in 2001, it may be able to pull off similarly devastating attacks today.

Zacarias Moussaoui is a convicted former member of al-Qaeda who is serving a life sentence at a federal “supermax” prison in Colorado after pleading guilty in 2005 that he helped plan the 9/11 attacks. He accused Saudi Arabia’s royal family of involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

Former US senator and governor of Florida, Bob Graham, went on CBS’s 60 Minutes television program to say the hijackers who carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks had “some support from within the United States” and were “substantially” backed by Saudi Arabia.

Senator Graham has said repeatedly that Saudi Arabia was implicated in the September 11, 2011 attacks. “The 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11, and they point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier,” Senator Graham said on January 2015 as he demanded for the pages to be made public.

PressTV wrote an article entitled “Senator Graham Says 9/11 Hijackers Had Support from within United Sates which was reprinted in the bwcentral.org website on April 14, 2016.

Former Senator Bob Graham said in an interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes that “I think it is implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn’t speak English, most of whom had never been in the United States before, many of whom didn’t have a high school education– could’ve carried out such a complicated task without some support from within the United States.” Graham said he hoped the CBS’s 60 Minutes latest report – “28 Pages” – would help in a prolonged battle to declassify one of the country’s most sensitive documents called “Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters.” Graham was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and co-chairman of a joint congressional commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks and wrote the full 838-page report.

John Hayward wrote an article entitled “Paul Sperry: Release the 28 Pages so we Can End this Suicidal Phony Alliance with Saudi Arabia” which was published in the website bwcentral.org on April 18, 2016. Sperry, an investigative journalist and Hoover Institution media fellow, has written several articles denounced the shameful cover-up by two presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama over the act of war against our nation during the 9/11 attacks involving the royal family of Saudi Arabia. He appeared on Breitbart News Daily with host Stephen K. Bannon on April 18, 2016 to discuss again about the potential release of the 28 pages of long-classified documents of the 9/11 report demonstrates Saudi complicity in the 9/11 attacks.

Sperry, author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington, published an article in the New York Post this weekend about “How the U.S. covered up the Saudi role in 9/11.”  In the article, Sperry discussed many interviews with intelligence and law-enforcement officials who have stated “virtually every road” from the 9/11 attacks “led back to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles” — but investigators were constantly told to back off from pursuing those leads.

On Breitbart News Daily, Sperry said his book Infiltration documents “How the Saudi machine has financed a number of front organizations,” including — but not limited to — radical mosques.  The most sinister terrorists won’t be sneaking through our borders from the Middle East. They’re already here.”

Sperry’s book, Infiltration, presents the untold story about the silent, yet extremely dangerous threat from the Muslim establishment in America an alarming exposé of how Muslims have for years been secretly infiltrating American society, government, and culture, pretending to be peace-loving and patriotic, while supporting violent jihad and working to turn America into an Islamic state. Sperry points out the following in his book:

• How radical Muslims have penetrated the U.S. military, the FBI, the Homeland Security Department, and even the White House where subversive Muslims and Arabs have received top-secret clearance.
• How they’ve infiltrated the chaplains program in the federal and state prison systems a top recruiting ground for al-Qaida.
• How they’ve successfully run influence operations against our political system with the help of both Democrats and Republicans, badgering corporate boards into Islamizing the workplace.
• How we’ve been utterly duped about what the Quran does and doesn’t teach. Sadly, much of anti-Western terrorism is simply Islam in practice, the text of the Quran in action.

In a time when religious and political leaders are scrambling to smooth over differences in faith and beliefs, Infiltration “gives the terrifying truth about the very real, very deadly agenda of Islam and how it has already infiltrated key American institutions with agents, spies, and subversives.”

Sperry expected the infamous 28 Pages to fit neatly with the many other classified documents he reviewed when writing the book. He thought the Saudis probably shared that expectation, given their surprisingly blunt threats to wage economic warfare against the United States if the documents are declassified.

Sperry said that “It’s an empty threat, but it shows just how worried they are, that this information is going to get out there, and they’re going to be held liable.” Sperry added that he has been told “there’s enough information in those 28 pages to bring indictments against Saudi officials.”

Sperry emphasized the importance of both releasing the 28 Pages and passing legislation that would allow 9/11 families to use the declassified information, by filing suit against the Saudis involved in the attacks.

Sperry stated the following: “The Saudis’ fingerprints are all over 9/11, and yet our government has done everything to erase them, so the public can’t see them. You’re not just talking about locking up those 28 pages, but also the case agents I’ve talked to, who were working those 9/11 leads going back to the Saudis, were stymied at every turn.  They were stopped from doing their jobs, when it came to the Saudis. These 28 pages are explosive. They name names of individuals complicit in the attacks.  They’re all clearly identified – the facilitators and handlers for the hijackers, the financiers and bag men. This is a monstrous scandal a political scandal, as well — one of the worst in our history, if not the worst.  It is so important to release those 28 pages, not just so the 9/11 families can finally get justice and closure, but also so we can end this suicidal phony alliance with Saudi Arabia.”

Sperry pointed out the following: We’re still sharing intel with them, at this moment, in our so-called War on Terrorism, that Obama won’t even call it that anymore. We’re still arming them, sending weapon systems, JDAMs. We’re still rubber-stamping their student visas, to the tune of tens of thousands of these young Saudi men are still flooding our shores here, and supposedly going to our campuses — the ones that, you know, we can track.  But yet the Saudis, they’re still funding jihadists, all around the globe, and they’re still building radical mosques here. We’ve got to stop this madness.  The Saudis are operating a massive counter-intelligence program against us, right here in America.  And we’re letting it happen.”

Leah Barkoukis wrote an article about a widow who criticized Obama for siding with the Saudi monarchy over the 9/11 victims. The article was published in Townhall and in the website bwcentral.org on April 19, 2016.

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Lorie Van Auken lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Van Auken and other relatives of those who died in the 9/11 attacks have tried for years to hold the Saudi monarchy accountable in federal court, believing that the hijackers were helped by Saudi agents. However, because foreign governments are currently immune from suits in the United States, the efforts of Van Auken and other 9/11 families have failed.

Lorie Van Auken told CBS This Morning television program the following: “If someone you loved was murdered and the person was just able to go away Scott free, would you be OK with that? I don’t think anybody would. It feels like blackmail, the government, the president is siding with Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 families.”

Conclusion

Saudi Arabia financed and assisted the 9/11 terrorists in collaboration with Iran. The evidence uncovered thus far regarding the kingdom of Saudi Arabia that pretends to be an ally of the United States is clear. The Saudi Royal family, including a former king and the present king, and their relatives and intelligence and diplomatic officials committed an act of war against our nation by providing financial and logistical assistance to the al-Qaeda Islamic terrorists who attacked our homeland on 9/11. It is interesting to note that even though Saudi Arabia and Iran are mortal enemies, the two nations collaborated to attack the United States.

It was the worst attack on our homeland since the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 – a day that would live in infamy. Both President George W. Bush and President Barack Hussein Obama have participated in a major cover-up by not releasing the 28 pages of the 9/11 report. The two presidents have not only betrayed the relatives of the victims but also our nation. It is very sad that some Republicans have joined Obama in killing the bill that would hold Saudi Arabia accountable.

All members of Congress should demand that President Barack Obama release immediately the censored 28 pages of this report. They need to remember that one of the hijacked airplanes that were flying towards Washington, D.C. to crash the aircraft into the Capitol building where they work. Thanks to the sacrifice of the brave passengers who fought the Islamic terrorists inside the plane, the Islamic terrorist pilot crashed the plane in a field in Pennsylvania after screaming “Allah Akbar.”

Obama needs to release immediately those censored and classified 28 missing pages of the 9/11 report. If it destroys the U.S. alliance with the corrupt monarchy of Saudi Arabia, so be it! Our courts need to slap the monarchy of Saudi Arabia with billions of dollars of punitive damages and award the money to the United States government for the enormous damage done to our nation (our government has not sue the kingdom) and to the family members of the victims.

The United States and the West have allowed the perverted version of Islam, including Shariah law, to be spread by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Islamic radicals, and the Muslim Brotherhood and to penetrate their societies. The 26 million followers of Wahhabi Islam of Saudi Arabia and their message of hate against the infidels should not be allowed to poison the minds of Muslims in the United States and Europe.

The clerics of Wahhabi Islam made a diabolical deal with the Royal family of Saudi Arabia. The agreement was that the Wahhabi clerics would not interfere with their rule so long as they were permitted to spread their religion throughout the world, including the United States.

The Royal family of Saudi Arabia, with the billions of dollars that the United States and the West send each year to purchase oil and gas, has built thousands of mosques many of them employing Islamic radical imams as well as Islamic centers to advance Islam in the United States and the West. One such mosque was the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, located near the Pentagon. It was built with funds from the Saudi Embassy.

It was at this mosque in 2001 that Anwar Awlaki and the San Diego al-Qaida Islamic terrorists who later attacked our nation turned up together again. Army psychiatrist Nidal Hassan who killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas went to Iman Anwar Awlaki’s mosque. Anwar Awlaki worked closely with the Saudi Embassy. He lectured at a Saudi Islamic think tank in Merrifield, Virginia, chaired by Prince Bandar. Most suspiciously Awlaki fled the United States on a Saudi jet about a year after 9/11.

Saudi Arabia has also built 22,000 madrassas or schools throughout the world to spread Wahhabi Islam. These schools graduate more than four million young Muslim men every year. They are brainwashed and taught that to die for Islam waging Jihad against infidels anywhere in the world will send them straight to Paradise, which they call Jinnah. Those who achieve martyrdom will be given 72 virgins upon arrival to Jinnah.

Sadly, many radical Muslim men and women commit murder-suicide each year against Jews in Israel. Radical Muslim men are fighting in al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organizations and more recently on behalf of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. The United States has also experienced domestic terrorism by Islamic radicals.

Ivy League universities have accepted Saudi Arabia and Qatar funds to establish Islamic studies. Our best universities often hire radical Islamist professors for these departments, which graduate each year many U.S.-born Muslims and other Americans with Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Islamic studies. Many of them come out from our Ivy League universities with a desire to implant Shariah law in our nation and convert members of other religions to Islam. Many of these graduates join the multitude of Muslim Brotherhood-connected organizations and the Obama administration has hired many of them to important positions.

Saudi Arabia is an enemy of the United States and should be treated as such. President Obama should not include Saudi Arabia and Qatar in the coalition to fight Islamic State since both of those nations have supported the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and other Islamic terrorists throughout the world. The sooner that the United States can achieve complete energy independence, the better it would be for our nation in order not to have to depend on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries for oil and gas.