US Senate passes 9/11 bill allowing victims to sue Saudi Arabia

The US Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow victims and relatives of those killed in the September 1, 2001 attacks to sue the Saudi Arabia government. President Barack Obama has threatened
to veto the bill if passed into law. 
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) now moves to the House of Representatives and if passed into law, JASTA would remove the sovereign immunity, preventing lawsuits against governments, for countries found to be involved in terrorist attacks on US soil giving way to survivors of the attacks, and relatives of those killed in the attacks, to seek damages from other countries. 
In this case, it would allow lawsuits to proceed in federal court in New York as lawyers try to prove that the Saudis were involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
 
The Saudi Arabia authority who denied any involvement in the 2001 attacks which killed nearly 3000 people, strongly object to the Bill and have threatened to to move its investments from the US which it subsequently denied.

The co-sponsor of the bill, senator Schumer said: "Today the Senate has spoken loudly and unanimously that the families of the victims of terror attacks should be able to hold the perpetrators even if it's a country a nation accountable.
"It will serve as a deterrent and warning to any other nation who assists in terror attacks against American."
He said he was confident the bill would be passed by a large margin in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.