INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
judge on Friday turned down a request by households of victims of the Sept
11, 2001, attacks not to enforce his decision against letting them take $3.5 billion of frozen Afghan reserve bank assets.The households,
making up more than 10,000 people, had actually asked U.S
District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan to put his Feb
21 decision on hold while they appeal, Reuters reported.They mentioned the public interest in implementing terrorism-related judgments, and
the && irreversible damage & they would deal with if assets belonging to Da Afghanistan Bank, or DAB, the central bank, were freed up.But
the judge said the families& & appeal was not likely to prosper and there was no irreparable damage since of President Joe Biden&& s Feb
3 executive order on Afghanistan&& s humanitarian crisis that extended the possession freeze by one year.&& An important public interest
depends on the enforcement of terrorism judgments,& & Daniels wrote
& But that enforcement should be in accordance with the U.S
Constitution, federal statutes, and state law.&& In judgment versus the families, Daniels said awarding them the frozen possessions would
successfully recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) as Afghanistan&& s legitimate federal government, which the Biden
administration has not done.Daniels said it was for the IEA, and && not the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or the Afghan
individuals,& & to spend for its own liability in the Sept
11 attacks, in which nearly 3,000 people died.Biden froze about $7 billion of DAB funds at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York in February
2022, six months after the IEA took over in Afghanistan
The president purchased $3.5 billion set aside to benefit the Afghan people, leaving the rest for the households to pursue.The post 9/11
families can not stop United States decision on Afghan property seizure initially appeared on Ariana News.
