Pssssssst! Bush family hosts Saudi Crown Prince Salman as Riyadh's attempt to toss 9/11 lawsuits fa

https://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2018/04/08/bush-family-hosts-saudi-crown-prince-salman-as-riyadhs-attempt-to-toss-911-lawsuits-fails
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Former presidents George H. W. Bush and his son George W. Bush hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Texas during his two-week-long U.S. tour a week after a New York judge rejected Riyadh's bid to dismiss lawsuits claiming that it helped plan the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and should pay billions of dollars in damages to victims.

Bush on Sunday tweeted a photo of him with his son, Crown Prince Salman, Saudi Prince Khalid bin Salman and former U.S. Secretary of State Jim Baker, and said the meeting was "a wonderful chance to celebrate the long-standing friendship between our two nations."

As the Saudi prince tries to reshape his kingdom's austere image, the controversy over Saudi Arabia's indirect involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks, which took place during the junior Bush's presidency and resulted in a U.S. invasion in Iraq, has resurfaced recently due to a lawsuit in New York.

On March 28, U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said the families of 9/11 victims' allegations "narrowly articulate a reasonable basis" for him to assert jurisdiction over Saudi Arabia under the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), a 2016 federal law.