ABC News reports that the Trump administration made an offer of 700 700 million to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks as part of its efforts to secure a deal with Sudan to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.
Two sources told Hill that the Trump administration had made offers of compensation to the victims and the families of the victims, but these sources did not confirm the figure of 700 million.
The Trump administration’s move to overthrow Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year-old dictatorship in April 2019 was welcomed by bipartisan members of Congress and the country’s revolutionary democratic transition.
But the passage of “legal peace” in Congress has dampened concerns that victims and families of victims of terrorism will not be able to pursue lawsuits against Sudan. These include two 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania by al Qaeda and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
It is not clear where the money will come from to pay the victims and their families.
The White House, which has focused on starting relations between Israel and Arab and Muslim nations, declined to comment.
President Trump
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The president celebrated this diplomatic success, known as the Abraham Accords, one of his most important foreign policy achievements, and is preparing for a signing ceremony with Sudan ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Biden, according to a White House report.
Sudanese officials have indicated they are ready to withdraw from warm relations with the Jewish state if the Trump administration fails to protect laws to protect Khartoum from terrorism-related lawsuits.
A source close to the talks said Sudan, which has suspended ties with Israel, is confident the law will be passed before the Biden administration takes power.
There is strong bipartisan support in Congress to support Sudan’s transitional democratic government. But more than a year of negotiations between the White House, the State Department and Capitol Hill have failed to reach a satisfactory agreement on terrorism victims and Sudanese concerns.
Critics have blamed the administration for leaving Congress out of initial talks with Khartoum to settle the claims of terrorist victims who were part of a benchmark to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Sudan has placed 33 5,335 million in escrow accounts to compensate American victims of the 1998 two embassy bombings. Yet the money will only be given to the victims with the passage of the Legal Peace Act. If the law is not passed by November 2021, the money will be returned to Sudan.
Negotiations are escalating as the Trump administration aims to pass a legitimate peace law before the president’s term expires.
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“Key House and Senate Democrats support both versions of the Menendez-Schumer bill, and we’re ready to pass one somewhere before the end of the year,” Sense said. Schumer and Menendez said in a statement last week.
“We support a successful transition to democracy in Sudan; This deal should not contradict the goal of working for the victims of terrorism. As negotiations with the Trump administration continue, we urge Senate Republicans and the State Department to work with us to move forward on the plate and make it a reality. ”
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