September 11 victims cannot seize Afghan Central Bank assets - US judge

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A US judge, on Tuesday, said victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks are not entitled to seize billions of dollars of assets belonging to Afghanistan's Central Bank to satisfy court judgments they obtained against the Taliban, Reuters reports. US District Judge, George Daniels, in Manhattan said he was "constitutionally restrained" from finding that the Taliban was Afghanistan's legitimate government, a requirement for attaching assets belonging to the Central Bank, Da Afghanistan Bank. "The judgment creditors are entitled to collect on their default judgments and be made*whole for the worst terrorist attack in our nation's history, but they cannot do so with the funds of the Central Bank of Afghanistan," Daniels wrote. The decision is a defeat for four groups […]

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