The US Senate passes legislation allowing families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia — despite a White House veto threat and fierce objections from the US ally.
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, approved by voice vote, is triggering a threat from Riyadh to pull billions of dollars from the US economy if the bill is enacted.
The legislation, sponsored by Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chuck Schumer, D-NY, gives victims’ families the right to sue in US court for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the 2001 attacks that killed thousands in New York, the Washington, DC area and Pennsylvania.
Schumer says that any foreign government that aids terrorists who strike the US “will pay a price if it is proven they have done so.”
— AP
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