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President Biden has authorised the seizure of seven billion dollars in Afghan central bank assets -- earmarking half of it for possible payments to 9/11 victims, and the other half for humanitarian relief in Afghanistan. Andrew Maloney is a US lawyer representing around 150 relatives of those who were killed more than twenty years ago. He says the Afghan people should have done more to stop the Taliban and that using Afghan national assets to pay compensation is fair game.

(Photo: A collection of photos of the victims of 11 September 2001, in the 9/11 museum in New York. Credit: Getty Images)