No sense of irony
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The Taliban renewed its pleas for the US to release assets frozen in American banks, this time citing the need to respond to a devastating earthquake.
At least 1,000 people died and 1,500 were injured late Tuesday when a 6.1 magnitude tremor hit the southern city of Khost.
Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in mid-August, President Joe Biden's administration froze $9.5 billion of Afghanistan Central Bank reserves held in US banks.
Biden in February unfroze around $7 billion of those funds, saying they would be used for humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and given to the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attack.
That move left around $2.5 billion that the Taliban could not access.
Maybe they could sell some slightly used munitions to raise cash. There's a guy in Moscow who might be interested.
