Groups of creditors are planning an appeal.
Relatives of victims visit the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum in New York City on the 21st anniversary of the terror attack.A U.S. judge ruled Tuesday against the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, who had moved to collect
in frozen assets belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank in order to fulfill a compensation ruling they had won in court against the Taliban.that it is unconstitutional to allow victims to claim those assets because doing so would amount to recognizing the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate government, which is outside the court’s power.
Since the Afghan Central Bank, known as Da Afghanistan Bank, or DAB, is a foreign government entity, Daniels argued he lacked jurisdiction under federal law to act against the bank, according to Reuters. Neither the Afghan people nor the previous administration, according to Daniels, are liable to compensate for the attack ― only the Taliban are.of U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, who concluded in August that the victims did not have a right to the assets.in Afghan central bank funds deposited at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York when the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021. The U.S.
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