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Afghanistan facing disaster mass starvation after Taliban takeover
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Do you how many people has this country added last decade?
They can easily grow wheat instead of opium if they are serious.
Afghans are starving because Biden just took half the $7B frozen assets and is using it to compensate the victims of 9/11... Which has nothing to do wlith Afghanis.
The richest country in the world just robbed the poorest country in the world
The richest country in the world just robbed the poorest country in the world
The way its going, US encouraging many countries to seek alternative to USD. Its not the safe currency to use anymore due to unilateral imposition of rules. Maybe thst is why crypto is in high demand.
they totally deserve it. freedom isn't free and since they refused to fight for it, they deserve their fate with the Taliban government.
let this be a lesson to all jihadists. your state will fail and your people will starve. you are incapable of running a civilized state because your retarded religious views trap you in the paleolithic age.
let this be a lesson to all jihadists. your state will fail and your people will starve. you are incapable of running a civilized state because your retarded religious views trap you in the paleolithic age.
The6 have been fighting dince the 1960's.
Initially it was agsinst communist insurgents.
Then communist v anti communist.
Then Soviets.
Then talibans.
Then US army.
I think they have reached a point where its not worth fighting anymore. Totally fatigued. Just try to adjust the best they can with the new taliban influenced by Qatar., which is a modern arab state, and a rival to saudi.
no foreign powers really want to intervene in Afghanistan affairs now. Qator is so small, they can challenge Saudi Arabia supremacy in the region ?
Biden unfreezes Afghan funds for in-country relief and 9/11 legal fight
By Kevin Liptak and Natasha Bertrand, CNNUpdated 2244 GMT (0644 HKT) February 12, 2022
(CNN) President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday allowing $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan's central bank to eventually be distributed inside the country and to potentially fund litigation brought by families of victims of the September 11 terror attacks, senior administration officials confirmed Friday.
The funds, held in the US, were frozen following the collapse of the central government in Kabul in August. Half the remaining assets -- $3.5 billion -- could go toward providing relief inside the country, where fears of mass starvation have taken hold in the months since the Taliban took over.
The remaining $3.5 billion will be made available for terror victims, who have been fighting in court for compensation using the frozen funds. Their claims will still be litigated by a judge, and senior White House officials said unfreezing the money was a necessary legal step in order for claimants to have their day in court.
The New York Times first reported Biden's planned executive order.
In a call with reporters Friday, senior administration officials called the move just "one step in a process that might lead" to the unlocking of these funds for the benefit of the Afghan people, noting that the US is moving to put the reserves in a trust that will be "separate and distinct" from the ongoing American humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.
Officials said the funds could extend beyond only humanitarian aid.
"We plan to consult widely in the coming months, including with the Afghan community, about the governance and use of the funds we are seeking to release," an official said.
Families of 9/11 victims have been pursuing financial compensation from the Taliban for years and renewed their efforts following the group's takeover of the country last year and the subsequent freezing of the Afghan assets. The Biden administration has been weighing how to proceed for months. The officials said that the $3.5 billion remaining in the US will be "subject to the ongoing litigation by US victims of terrorism."
Biden's decision to split the frozen funds is drawing some scrutiny, including from a group representing 9/11 families that argues all relatives of victims, not just the ones currently suing for compensation, should be allowed access to the frozen money.
"All family members of those killed on 9/11 in the terrorist attacks must be treated equally. Anything short of equitable treatment for and among the 9/11 families as it relates to these frozen assets is outrageous," said Brett Eagleson, the son of a 9/11 victim, in a statement.
Meanwhile, there's an outcry among activists who say allowing any of the frozen assets to go to 9/11 families is wrong, since no Afghans perpetrated 9/11 and the money belongs to the Afghan people, who had no role in the attack.
US officials have responded to the latter claim by saying they have an obligation to put this money aside while the 9/11 claimants make their case in court.
"Absent action by us, these funds were likely to be tied up in courts for years, while the action we have taken stands the best chance of more quickly freeing up a large portion for humanitarian support," a White House official said.
The Taliban have claimed rights to the funds, which include assets like currency and gold, but the US has declined access to them after Afghanistan's democratic government fell. The US has not recognized the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan.
Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem also criticized the United States for not unfreezing all the funds to Afghanistan
"Stealing the blocked funds of Afghan nation by the United States of America and its seizure (of those funds) shows the lowest level of humanity ... of a country and a nation," Naeem tweeted.
A 'widening humanitarian crisis' and economic crisis
Afghanistan's economy has collapsed in the months since the US fully withdrew its troops and the central democratic government fell. International assistance has also been mostly shut off as countries weighed whether to send aid to the Taliban.Even before the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August, poverty and food insecurity were widespread due to back-to-back droughts, economic decline, protracted conflict and the pandemic.
But in the months after the takeover, the crisis rapidly worsened. Billions of dollars of foreign development aid dried up, depriving the country of money that had been propping up the economy, key services and aid workers
As winter set in, nearly 23 million people -- more than half the population -- are facing extreme levels of hunger, according to the United Nations. At least a million children under 5 are at risk of dying from starvation.
The International Rescue Committee ranked Afghanistan No. 1 on its annual emergency watchlist of countries whose humanitarian crises are expected to deteriorate in 2022.
In January, the US announced $308 million in humanitarian aid for the people of Afghanistan, as well as additional Covid-19 vaccine doses. That brought the total US assistance to the country to $782 million since October 2021.
Lawmakers have urged the Biden administration to take action to avert an economic disaster in Afghanistan, proposing measures that could provide relief. In a December letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, a group of House lawmakers advised the administration to release frozen Afghan funds "to an appropriate United Nations agency to pay teacher salaries and provide meals to children in schools, so long as girls can continue to attend."
In December, the Biden administration announced it was lifting some restrictions on the types of aid that humanitarian organizations can provide to Afghanistan that would enable support for educational programs, including paying teachers' salaries.
Speaking this week, the US State Department's Special Representative and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan Tom West said, "It's no secret that the country is in the midst of not just widening humanitarian crisis, but also an economic cratering."
"It is absolutely heartbreaking what is happening in Afghanistan," West told CNN's Becky Anderson in an interview. "It's the first thing I think about when I wake up. It's the last thing I think about before I go to bed. As you say there are millions of Afghans suffering, and in many ways they're suffering not for decisions they made but for decisions that others made."
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated the timing of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. It took place in 2021.
CNN's Betsy Klein and Anna Coren contributed to this report.
Even the exiled corrupt afghan president also complain..
Former Afghan leader Karzai called on President Joe Biden to rescind last week's order [Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo]
Published On 14 Feb 202214 Feb 2022
Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5bn in Afghan assets held in the United States for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people.
Karzai, at a packed news conference, sought the help of Americans, particularly the families of the thousands killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, to press President Joe Biden to rescind last week’s order.
“The people of Afghanistan share the pain of the American people, share the pain of the families and loved ones of those who died, who lost their lives in the tragedy of September 11,” said Karzai.
“We commiserate with them [but] Afghan people are as much victims as those families who lost their lives. Withholding money or seizing money from the people of Afghanistan in their name is unjust and unfair and an atrocity against Afghan people.”
President Biden’s order, signed last Friday, freed $7.1bn in Afghan assets currently held in the US, to be divided between September 11 victims and humanitarian aid to Afghans.
September 11 attack victims and the families of victims have filed legal claims against the Taliban and the $7.1bn in the US banking system.
The $3.5bn was set aside for a US court to decide whether it can be used to settle claims by families of 9/11 victims.
US courts would also have to sign off before the release of humanitarian assistance money.
We “ask the US courts to do the opposite, to return the Afghan money back to the Afghan people”, said Karzai.
“This money does not belong to any government … this money belongs to the people of Afghanistan.”
The delegation, led by Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, will meet with a European Union delegation in Doha, diplomatic missions and officials from Gulf countries.
The latest bid to unlock aid follows meetings in Oslo late last month between Taliban representatives and governments that heavily bankrolled Afghanistan’s previous government, which imploded in the face of a Taliban military offensive in August last year.
The Taliban government has yet to gain formal recognition from any country and the United Nations says that half of Afghanistan’s 38 million people face food shortages.
But while Muttaqi told the AFP news agency earlier this month that the Taliban is inching closer to international recognition, his delegation is again expected to face demands to improve human and women’s rights in the Doha talks, set to begin on Monday.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES
Karzai: Biden order on frozen funds ‘atrocity against Afghans’
President Biden signed an order to free $7.1bn in Afghan assets to be divided between 9/11 victims and humanitarian aid to Afghans.
Former Afghan leader Karzai called on President Joe Biden to rescind last week's order [Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo]
Published On 14 Feb 202214 Feb 2022
Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5bn in Afghan assets held in the United States for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people.
Karzai, at a packed news conference, sought the help of Americans, particularly the families of the thousands killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, to press President Joe Biden to rescind last week’s order.
“The people of Afghanistan share the pain of the American people, share the pain of the families and loved ones of those who died, who lost their lives in the tragedy of September 11,” said Karzai.
“We commiserate with them [but] Afghan people are as much victims as those families who lost their lives. Withholding money or seizing money from the people of Afghanistan in their name is unjust and unfair and an atrocity against Afghan people.”
President Biden’s order, signed last Friday, freed $7.1bn in Afghan assets currently held in the US, to be divided between September 11 victims and humanitarian aid to Afghans.
September 11 attack victims and the families of victims have filed legal claims against the Taliban and the $7.1bn in the US banking system.
The $3.5bn was set aside for a US court to decide whether it can be used to settle claims by families of 9/11 victims.
US courts would also have to sign off before the release of humanitarian assistance money.
We “ask the US courts to do the opposite, to return the Afghan money back to the Afghan people”, said Karzai.
“This money does not belong to any government … this money belongs to the people of Afghanistan.”
Taliban delegation in Qatar
Meanwhile, on Sunday, a Taliban delegation arrived in Qatar in a new bid to convince governments to provide humanitarian aid.The delegation, led by Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, will meet with a European Union delegation in Doha, diplomatic missions and officials from Gulf countries.
The latest bid to unlock aid follows meetings in Oslo late last month between Taliban representatives and governments that heavily bankrolled Afghanistan’s previous government, which imploded in the face of a Taliban military offensive in August last year.
The Taliban government has yet to gain formal recognition from any country and the United Nations says that half of Afghanistan’s 38 million people face food shortages.
But while Muttaqi told the AFP news agency earlier this month that the Taliban is inching closer to international recognition, his delegation is again expected to face demands to improve human and women’s rights in the Doha talks, set to begin on Monday.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES
But ... but ... the Democrats are supposed to be the nice guys. Obama gave millions to the Iranians for a soldier who went AWOL and caused the deaths of several of his team mates looking for him.
I doubt very much if they were awarded, the 9/11 victims eould want sny of the afghsn money.
The real perpetrators is Saudi gomen which used petro money to spread their vengeful version of the faith. The6 got away scot free while entire niddle east ended in turmoil due to their doing.
Saudi is the only vountry named after their ruling family. The actual nsme should be arabia. The british, after the fall of ottoman empire just 100 years ago, created monarchies which they control all over middle east.
The real perpetrators is Saudi gomen which used petro money to spread their vengeful version of the faith. The6 got away scot free while entire niddle east ended in turmoil due to their doing.
Saudi is the only vountry named after their ruling family. The actual nsme should be arabia. The british, after the fall of ottoman empire just 100 years ago, created monarchies which they control all over middle east.
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