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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
On 11 February, the Biden administration announced that it intended to divert $3.5 billion of frozen assets from Da Afghanistan Bank (Afghanistan’s central bank) to families of 9/11 victims. This amount is roughly half of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves, which Washington froze amid the Taliban’s takeover of the country in mid-August 2021. The US willallocate the other half of Afghanistan’s frozen foreign reserves for aid to “provide a path for the funds to reach the people of Afghanistan, while keeping them out of the hands of the Taliban and malicious actors”. Put simply, the US government is …