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Bipartisan Calls Increase in Senate to End U.S. Aid to Saudi Forces

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

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Bipartisan Calls Increase in Senate to End U.S. Aid to Saudi Forces

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) at a 2015 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Photo: Sen. Jack Reed

Senators on both sides of the aisle are increasingly calling for an end to U.S. military aid to Saudi forces in Yemen and a hold on weapons sales to the Middle Eastern country, and demanding independent investigations into the disappearance of a Saudi writer living in the United States and two recent airstrikes on civilians in Yemen.Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said Oct. 17 that a “thorough and independent investigation” into the disappearance of Saudi dissident and Washington Post writer Jamal…

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