'President Biden has the opportunity to make amends right now! He can unfreeze the funds belonging to the Afghan people,' said one 9/11 widow with the group PeacefulTomorro.
"Newsflash: Zero of the 9/11 terrorists were Afghan," he added."This is absurd." in a statement that the proposed redistribution of Afghan funds"is short-sighted, cruel, and will worsen a catastrophe in progress, affecting millions of Afghans, many of whom are on the verge of starvation."
Phyllis Rodriguez, whose husband died in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and who is also with Peaceful Tomorrows, was among those urging Biden to reject the proposed policy. "If the funds are not returned and the famine is not averted, America will be blamed for one of the worst famines in history."
Rodriguez said that"it saddens me that there are 9/11 family members who can't see the discrepancies in our relative privilege to demand reparations instead of recognizing the dire need of Afghans."
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