At the last minute to defend President Donald Trump’s deal with Sudan, the Trump administration offered to pay 700 700 million in American funds to the victims of the September 11 attacks so that they could pursue lawsuits against the African country, according to two familiar sources.
In response, lawyers for the 9/11 claimants said they wanted જેટલા 4 billion, denied to the administration and Senate Republicans, sources said.
The talks, which were not previously reported and resumed late Friday, show that the Trump administration is ready to defend its deal with Sudan in order to normalize relations with the US and Israel and compensate another group of American terrorist victims. People killed and injured in the 1998 embassy bombing.
“This whole episode shows you that everything was planned for the announcement, and now they’re trying to return the contract to the engineer based on what they’re announcing,” said Cameron Hudson, a former State Department official and CIA official. “Now he works as an international diplomat.”
Sudan is believed to be responsible for harboring al Qaeda operatives responsible for attacks on embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. But his role in 9/11 is not known, the U.S. Millions of taxpayer dollars make the administration’s offer even more extraordinary.
The State Department declined to comment, citing ongoing negotiations.
U.S. And signed a deal in November with Sudan to end the verdict against Sudan for the 1998 attacks, totaling 2 10.2 billion. In return for Sudan agreeing to pay $ 335 million, the U.S. removed its state sponsor of the country’s terrorism designation – the U.S., which blocked aid from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. No stricter sanctions – and Congress is committed to working to pass legislation. Restoring Sudan’s “legitimate peace” cannot be claimed as a sovereign state.
But Sen. Chuck Schumer, D.N.Y., and Sen. Bob Menendez, DNJ, has been blocking the law for months, saying the 9/11 claimants’ claims must be protected. Last week, both were led by congressional Democrats in proposing two resolutions to the administration, and this week saw multiple parties scramble to achieve a single party.
According to both sources, Congress is preparing to postpone next week, abandoning the clock ticket on the deal and influencing Trump’s plans to hold a joint signing ceremony with Sudan and Israel in the first week of January.
There is also pressure in Khartoum, where a fragile power-sharing government is trying to pull the country out of last year’s oppressive regime by Omar al-Bashir, who was forcibly ousted by the demonstration last year. Changing government Inflation, high inflation, food and fuel shortages, political instability, and now U.S. And desperate for international investment – struggling to work with Covid-1.
Trump is offering this week that the U.S. After weeks of negotiations to change the law, let the 9/11 claim continue in another way. But lawyers for the victims’ group have denied it, saying it would weaken their case, especially if the state sponsor of the now-defunct state of terrorism is removed. According to a source familiar with the matter, the move, which started in October, will be finalized on Monday.
“We strongly support a successful transition to democracy in Sudan; this deal should not contradict the goal of working for the victims of terrorism,” Schumer and Menendez said in a statement Wednesday, urging Trump and Republicans to “move forward.” Plate and work with us. “
Last week, Schumer and Menendez offered two amendments to U.S. law that would strengthen 9/11 claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act, or FSIA, or the Justice Against Terrorism Act, or JSTA.
“All of our 9/11 clients are asking to maintain their ability to prove claims in court and to be able to enforce those judgments under the law when they receive judgments,” said Dennis Pentazis, the group’s chief attorney. 9/11 of widows.
But the Trump administration denied it because it would violate the Sudan deal. According to a source, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with Sudan’s top military chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, again on Friday, according to a source. Would be considered a terrorist state.
“They can’t afford to hang a terrorist label for years to come,” said Hudson, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. “
The administration has also opposed Menendez and Schumer’s proposal as it would strengthen the 9/11 claims against Saudi Arabia, Trump’s main foreign policy partner, that the administration is still somehow trying to recognize Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. Morocco.
That effort, known as the Abraham Accords, is advancing Trump’s foreign policy, with Trump trading Israeli recognition for unprecedented sales of armed drones and F-35 elite fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates, and by Thursday, U.S. Morocco’s recognition of the disputed territory control over the Western Sahara.
While Osama bin Laden has been in Sudan for years, it is unclear whether the Sudanese government helped or facilitated the 9/11 attacks. The 9/11 commission, an independent body investigating the attacks, said in a 2004 report that “the Sudanese government appears to have confiscated all of its assets; it has not left Sudan with anything practical. Bin Laden’s assets in Sudan are also a source of money.” For Al Qaeda. “
Still, Congress could pass a statutory peace law that would advance the 9/11 claims, leaving the Trump administration or the incoming Biden administration to defend the U.S. deal with Sudan.
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