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THREAD: My new @WPReview column draws on @HSecurityLab’s new survey data from #Afghanistan to show that paying 9/11 families reparations from the frozen Afghan national reserves is not just unjust, it’s bad for national security. 1/ worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/30618… 1/
The background: after the Taliban takeover, the US froze the Afghan national reserves, throwing the Afghan economy into collapse. As @washingtonpost reporter @sgreports explains, near-famine conditions have resulted through much of the country. 2/ washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
Meanwhile, as @nytimes’ @charlie_savage explained in December, some lawyers for 9/11 families who had been suing the Taliban for reparations, sought to have those reparations paid out of the Afghan reserves. 3/ nytimes.com/2021/12/02/us/…
