White House: "9/11 Terror Victims' Families to Receive Half of US Assets in Afghanistan"

[Asia Economy New York=Special Correspondent Joselgina] Families of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States will receive about half of the Afghan government’s assets as compensation. The remaining half will be used as a humanitarian aid fund for the Afghan people.

On the 11th (local time), the White House announced that President Joe Biden signed an executive order with these provisions. The Afghan government’s assets deposited at the New York Federal Reserve Bank amount to $7 billion. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last August, international financial support to Afghanistan has been suspended, and assets in the U.S. have also been frozen.

The U.S. government decided to seize these assets, using half to establish a humanitarian aid fund for the Afghan people, and the other half to create a third-party trust fund to pay compensation to the families of the 9/11 terror victims as ordered by the court. Previously, the victims’ families filed a class-action lawsuit against the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and Iran immediately after the terror attacks, and the U.S. courts ruled in their favor, but they had not received compensation.

The White House stated in a press release, "This executive order is intended to create a pathway for these funds to reach the Afghan people while preventing them from falling into the hands of the Taliban and others."

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