US Commemorates Afghanistan Disaster – Keeps Afghanistan's $7 Billion

The Biden administration, on the one-year anniversary of the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, has evidently decided to keep $7 billion of Afghanistan’s assets. Thomas West, the U.S. State Department’s special representative to Afghanistan, told the Wall Street Journal yesterday: “We do not see recapitalization of the Afghan Central Bank as a near-term option. We do not have confidence that that institution has the safeguards and monitoring in place to manage assets responsibly…. Needless to say, the Taliban’s sheltering of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri reinforces deep concerns we have regarding diversion of funds to terrorist groups.”