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      We Must Remember the 9/11 War Lies

      We can’t afford to let these lies go down the memory hole, like we have the other wars we were lied into.

      Thom Hartmann
      Sep 11, 2023

      Today is 9/11, the event that first brought America together and then was cynically exploited by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to have a war against Iraq, followed by their illegal invasion of Afghanistan just a bit more than a year earlier.

      Yet the media today (so far, anyway) is curiously silent about Bush and Cheney’s lies.

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      'Victory for the Afghan People' as US Judge Blocks 9/11 Families From Seizing Frozen Assets

      "This money belongs to the Afghan people, and no one else," said Afghans for a Better Tomorrow, a coalition of Afghan-American community groups.

      Brett Wilkins
      Feb 22, 2023

      A coalition of Afghan-American community organizations on Wednesday welcomed a U.S. federal judge's ruling rejecting a bid by relatives of 9/11 victims to seize billions of dollars in assets belonging to the people of Afghanistan.

      In a 30-page opinion issued Tuesday, Judge George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York denied an effort by family members of people killed during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to gain access to $3.5 billion in frozen funds from Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the country's central bank.

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      Millions of Afghans Are Starving as US Stalls on Returning Central Bank Funds

      In September, the U.S. created a foundation that was supposed to unfreeze Afghanistan's foreign assets. Yet, interviews with trustees reveal that, in three months, no funds have been disbursed--or concrete plans made--to help the Afghan people.

      Sarah Lazare
      Dec 20, 2022

      The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 and, in response, Europe, the United Arab Emirates and the United States froze the Afghan central bank's roughly $9 billion in foreign assets--$7 billion of which was under control of the United States.

      The freezing of the assets plunged Afghanistan into a liquidity crisis, in which people are unable to access their cash and perform essential transactions.

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