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1 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Families of people killed in the 9/11 attacks are asking for billions from Afghanistan's seized foreign reserves as damages to settle a court case against the Taliban.

Report by @benfarmerDT

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The White House will advise a court this week whether the families should receive some $7bn of Afghan central bank funds locked in the Federal Reserve since the Taliban takeover. Image
Lawyers for the families say the money now belongs to the Taliban and should therefore form damages under a decade-old court judgment which found the militants liable for helping al-Qaeda.

(c: Hoshang Hashimi) Image
But the seizure of money belonging to a country trapped in a spiralling humanitarian crisis to pay off American claimants has been condemned as “grotesque”.

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United Nations figures estimate that more than three million Afghans cannot feed themselves and more than a million children are at risk of starvation.

(c: Hector Retamal)

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