A US judge decided on Tuesday that victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are not entitled to seize $3.5 billion of assets belonging to Afghanistan's central bank to satisfy court judgments they obtained against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Reuters reported. US District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said he was "constitutionally restrained"
"The Taliban - not the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or the Afghan people - must pay for the Taliban's liability in the 9/11 attacks," he added. Daniels' decision is a defeat for four groups of judgment creditors that claimed some of the $7 billion of DAB funds that had been frozen at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
A New York federal judge has ruled. The families of victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001 will not be able to seize the frozen assets of the Afghan Central Bank. Lawyers seeking compensation.