{"id":41608,"date":"2022-02-11T22:54:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/11\/biden-7bn-frozen-afghan-reserves-taliban"},"modified":"2022-02-12T03:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:25:03","slug":"biden-releases-7bn-in-frozen-afghan-funds-to-split-between-9-11-families-and-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41608","title":{"rendered":"Biden releases $7bn in frozen Afghan funds to split between 9\/11 families and aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of hands of Taliban<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday releasing $7bn in frozen Afghan reserves to be split between humanitarian efforts for the Afghan people and American victims of terrorism, including relatives of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>In a highly unusual move, the convoluted plan is designed to tackle a myriad of legal bottlenecks stemming from the 2001 terrorist attacks and the chaotic end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, which ignited a humanitarian and political crisis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/taliban-afghanistan-911-families-frozen-funds.html\">the New York times reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/11\/biden-7bn-frozen-afghan-reserves-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of hands of TalibanJoe Biden signed an executive order on Friday releasing $7bn in frozen Afghan reserves to be split between humanitarian effor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2536,939,2291,44,45,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-federal-reserve","category-joe-biden","category-september-11-2001","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41619,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41608\/revisions\/41619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}