How families of the 9/11 victims came together to pressure the Biden administration to unlock the seized Afghan funds.
On September 11 twenty-one years ago, terrorists hijacked and flew two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, killing 2,973 people, injuring thousands of others and forever altering many people’s lives in and outside of the United States of America.
The family did not want the retaliatory violence to be justified in the name of their son Gregory. They united with other family members of those killed on September 11 to turn their grief into action for peace, and formed an organisation, ‘September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows’.
On February 11, President Joe Biden issued an executive order, months after the Taliban took over in August of Kabul, regarding the $7 billion of Afghan funds invested in the US Federal Bank that it would not be returned to Afghan’s Central Bank. Inflation has skyrocketed. People are unable to access their savings, pay salaries. Trade and investments have become impossible and companies are filing for bankruptcy.
“A few of us split up a list of families of 9/11 victims, and we started making calls and also sent emails.”
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