Terror victims feel left out after White House order on billions of dollars in frozen Afghan funds
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In 2015, with bipartisan support, Congress created a fund to compensate all terrorism victims. The Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund is funded through fines and penalties, and it has paid out more than $3 billion in claims.
After the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan and froze $7 billion in assets from that country's central bank, some families expected at least some of the money would go to the Victim Compensation Fund.
Among them is 77-year-old Bob Essington, who in 1983 sustained permanent injuries when a suicide bomber used a car bomb to destroy the U.S. Embassy in Beirut — killing 63 people.
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