| Amid 9/11/01 Attacks Case Denial to
Victims of Access to $3.5B Access No Press
Answer by US State Dept
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 11 – Amid this year's
coverage of the anniversary of
the 9/11/01 attacks, the
denial to victims' families of
frozen Taliban funds and the
US State Department's refusal
to answer Press questions
about it must be noted.
In the ongoing lawsuit "In Re
Terrorist Attacks on September
11, 2001," originally filed in
2003, a conference was held on
February 22, 2022 after the
US' action on frozen Taliban
funds. Inner City Press
covered it, below.
The UN,
it's said, is complaining
about the use of funds - it it
doing its own fundraising off
Afghanistan.
U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Sarah
Netburn held the
conference.
Inner
City Press
live tweeted Judge
Netburn's November
10, 2021 conference,
here.
In late
August 2022,
Magistrate
Judge Netburn
recommended
not granting
victims access
to the $3.5B
the Administration
had
said
would be for
them: "These
creditors hold
judgments
against the
Taliban for
its role in
the September
11 Terrorist
Attacks or
other
terrorist
acts. They
move under §
201(a) of the
Terrorism Risk
Insurance Act
of 2002 for a
turnover of
the DAB Funds
to satisfy
these
judgments. The
Court
recommends
denying these
motions...
Only the
President may
recognize the
government of
a foreign
sovereign
nation." Only
the President may
- so what will
the
Administration
do?
On August
29, 2022 Inner
City Press
called in to
the US State
Department
briefing to
ask about
this. But
Deputy Spokesperson
Vedant Patel
wouldn't take the
question - then
or since --
while taking
three from
(his) Voice of
America.
In the
UN Security
Council, US
Ambassador
Linda
Thomas-Greenfield
intoned: "the
United States
has not turned
our backs on
Afghanistan.
We have
remained in
the country*." Then
FN
*We have
remained
engaged with
the country."
Neither
Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield's
US Mission to
the UN nor the
State Department
which have
been asked, shown
this,
have done
anything about
on-going
ban from the
UN of Inner
City Press,
including the
2020
UNGA Week it has
applied to
cover, here.
Watch
this site.
The case is In Re
Terrorist Attacks on September
11, 2001, 03-md-1570 (Daniels
/ Netburn).
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