Biden Administration Accused of 'Dirty Inside Deal' by Group of Furious 9/11 Families By Abby Liebing
August 19, 2022 at 10:23am
The ramifications of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August are still playing out, and some of the Biden administration’s decisions in the affair have deeply affected some Americans.
Particularly, the administration’s decision concerning $7 billion in Afghan central bank reserves has rocked 9/11 families and stirred up controversy, the Washington Examiner reported.
When the U.S. troops left Afghanistan last year, the Taliban took over the country, leading to the collapse of the country and its economy.
However, the U.S. seized $7 billion in American-based assets owned by Afghanistan’s central bank — known as Da Afghanistan Bank or DAB — so that the Taliban could not access it, Politico reported.
The U.S. has continued to hold onto that $7 billion, but in February, the Biden administration outlined in an executive order that half of the money could go to 9/11 families.
The executive order outlined that the administration would “seek to facilitate access to $3.5 billion of those assets for the benefit of the Afghan people and for Afghanistan’s future pending a judicial decision.”
But the other half of the money could possibly go to 9/11 victims’ families.
“Many U.S. victims of terrorism, including relatives of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, have brought claims against the Taliban and are pursuing DAB assets in federal court. Because some of these plaintiffs currently have writs of execution against the DAB assets, the court will need to issue a further decision regarding the scope of those writs,” the executive order read. “Even if funds are transferred for the benefit of the Afghan people, more than $3.5 billion in DAB assets would remain in the United States and are subject to ongoing litigation by U.S. victims of terrorism. Plaintiffs will have a full opportunity to have their claims heard in court.”
This decision has sparked controversy among the 9/11 families community, as many disagree over the money.
Some family members of victims want the money, but others have urged the Biden administration to release the funds to the Afghan people, whose money it was in the first place.
“A year ago, the community was sort of at peace. And we had no idea about this money, and things were better off. And there wasn’t this infighting and all these issues,” 9/11 Justice founder Brett Eagleson told the Washington Examiner.
Much of it comes down to the legal divide among 9/11 families.
There are thousands of Americans involved in lawsuits seeking compensation for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Many of the lawsuits focus on Saudi Arabia and Iran as the main perpetrators of the attacks. But there is a small group of 9/11 families known as the Havlish plaintiffs that won a default judgment against the Taliban in 2011, the Examiner reported.
Yet another group of 9/11 families, known as the Ashton plaintiffs, is specifcally trying to claim a stake in the Afghan central bank reserves.
Eagleson, whose father died in the Word Trade Center’s South Tower, is part of the Ashton plaintiffs. He said he now suspects that there is a “dirty inside deal with the administration” concerning the money and the legal disputes surrounding those who have been victims of Taliban terrorism, he told the Examiner.
“So no one has seen that money yet,” said Eagleson. “And it’s our presumption that nobody will probably see that money for at least a couple of years, if we even are allowed to see any of that money.”
Eagleson has also complained that the Biden administration’s decision to dole out the money via the court system is an error and disservice to the 9/11 families.
“What the Biden administration did was really a disservice to the 9/11 community because they never specified how that money is to be allocated,” Eagleson told the Washington Examiner. “They left it up to the courts to figure out what to do with it.”
There are many other 9/11 families, however, that are angry over the idea of $3.5 billion of American-based Afghan assets not going back to the Afghan people.
In a letter addressed to President Joe Biden on Aug. 16, about 80 family members of 9/11 victims requested that Biden reverse his February executive order and send the billions in frozen assets back to the Afghan people.
“Any use of the $7 billion to pay off 9/11 family member judgments is legally suspect and morally wrong. We call on you to modify your Executive Order and affirm that the Afghanistan central bank funds belong to the Afghan people and the Afghan people alone,” the letter read.
The letter also addressed that the Afghan people, whose country and economy have completely collapsed, simply need the money more than anyone in the U.S.
“Ninety-five percent of Afghans are impoverished, and nearly nine million are at risk of starvation. Affirming that these funds belong to the Afghan people will not solve Afghanistan’s problems; figuring out how to transfer the money directly to the Afghan people is a formidable task,” the letter read. “But the point is: this money is theirs, not ours. Simply put, this money belongs to the Afghan people, not 9/11 family members – and they need it more.”
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Poster Comment:
This act is more obfuscation by the Biden Crime Cult to keep people thinking that Afghanistan had anything to do with the events of 9-11-2001.
The facts tell us the "dancing Israelis" who were filming the attacks in New Jersey showed foreknowledge of the events of the day.
And then there was WTC 7 which fell in its own footprint. That was a sure sign of a demolition. The stockbroker Smith Barney had offices in that building. When it fell all of the hard drives in the computers were pulverized thus hiding the identities of who had sold short on the airline companies involved in the events of the day. Untold Billions or even Trillions of Dollars was likely made off with by the perps.
Also, the QRS-11 Fight Interruptor microchip which was installed in all commercial aircraft in the 1990s as a means to take over the controls of an airliner in the event of a hijacking.
Indeed, the events of 9-11-2001 were likely the greatest criminal heist in the history of the world.