THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT ON THURSDAY SAID IT HAD AUTHORIZED THE FE...

World | January 25, 2002, Friday // 00:00

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday said it had authorized the Federal Reserve to unblock $217 million worth of Afghan assets held by the United States. The assets, $193 million in gold and $24 million in other resources of the Afghan Central Bank, were frozen by the Office of Foreign Assets Control in 1999, blocking all assets associated with the Taliban regime in an effort to punish it for harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.

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