"And in exchange, the assets would provide access to the frozen funds?"

In July 2007, some of Bhutto's frozen funds were released.

Dr Weng and his colleagues say they have been developing a red shirt movement without the benefit of any of these frozen funds.

This month they won a court award of almost $1 billion against Iraq, and a federal law says they may be paid from frozen Iraqi funds.

Only Switzerland has released some frozen Iraqi funds, but the $70 million made available in this way is not sufficient to make much difference, he said.

During the suspension, frozen funds would also be released.

And also when do you envision beginning to tap into those frozen Iraqi funds that will be used for the good of the Iraqi people?

The Salinas family would not receive back any of the frozen funds.

To free these 'frozen' funds Dow decided to use them to pay for a movie production inside the country.

By March 18, enough progress had been made for the government to release half the frozen funds.