[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 365 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 365

  Condemning the visit of Louis Farrakhan to Libya, Iran, and Iraq as 
well as certain statements he made during those visits, and urging the 
   President to take appropriate action to determine if such visits, 
  statements, and actions resulting from agreements or understandings 
            reached during these visits violate Federal law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 1996

     Mr. Lantos (for himself and Mr. King) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International 
                               Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Condemning the visit of Louis Farrakhan to Libya, Iran, and Iraq as 
well as certain statements he made during those visits, and urging the 
   President to take appropriate action to determine if such visits, 
  statements, and actions resulting from agreements or understandings 
            reached during these visits violate Federal law.

Whereas Libya, Iran, and Iraq are countries designated by the Secretary of State 
        under section 40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act, title 22, United 
        States Code, section 2780(d) as state sponsors of terrorism; and whereas 
        Louis Farrakhan recently visited Libya, Iran, and Iraq;
Whereas the government of Libya has steadfastly refused to hand over for trial 
        the two individuals now in Libya who are accused of involvement in the 
        bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, in which 
        269 individuals, including many American citizens, lost their lives, and 
        the United Nations Security Council has voted to impose international 
        sanctions against Libya for its failure to hand over for trial these 
        accused individuals; Libya has attempted to subvert and destabilize Arab 
        and African countries by supporting coups, funding and training 
        opposition forces and guerrilla groups, and Libya has, at one time or 
        another, invaded, occupied, or claimed territory in the countries of 
        Niger, Chad, Tunisia, and Algeria; Libya has developed the capability to 
        produce chemical weapons, maintains stocks of chemical weapons, and is 
        seeking ballistic missiles capable of delivering such weapons; Libya has 
        been identified as a state supporter of terrorism, the Abu Nidal 
        terrorist organization maintains a presence in Libya, terrorist 
        organizations have repeatedly been invited to Libya, and the Libyan 
        Leader Muammar Qadhafi praised as ``heroic'' the October 1994 suicide 
        bombing of a Tel Aviv bus that killed and injured dozens of innocent 
        people;
Whereas Louis Farrakhan visited Libya and met with Leader Qadhafi, and, 
        according to reports from the Libyan news agency JANA, wrote in the 
        visitors' book at a monument to perpetuate anti-American sentiment in 
        connection with the United States bombing of Libya in 1986: ``I implore 
        God to punish our enemies hundreds of times, just as they did to us and 
        against you;''
Whereas the government of Iran was involved in the taking of over 50 United 
        States diplomats hostage in 1979 and continued to hold them hostage 
        under extremely difficult conditions for over one full year; and Iran 
        continues to exhibit hostility toward the United States, poses a threat 
        to the peace and stability of the Gulf region, and has been a major 
        supporter of terrorist organizations, including Hizbollah, which has 
        been involved in the deaths of American citizens in Lebanon and 
        elsewhere;
Whereas Mr. Farrakhan was a guest of honor at a rally in Tehran celebrating the 
        17th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and while in Tehran 
        was quoted by the Iranian newspaper Kayhan as having said, ``You can 
        quote me: God will destroy America by the hands of Moslems;'' according 
        to Agence France Presse, he ``paid tribute . . . to Iran on the 
        anniversary of its 1979 Islamic revolution as a crowd of tens of 
        thousands chanted `Death to America'''; and according to the Associated 
        Press said, ``We live in the center of corruption and struggle in the 
        heart of the Great Satan'';
Whereas the Government of Iraq brutally invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and 
        withdrew only after massive military intervention led by the United 
        States; Iraq has failed to provide information on some six hundred 
        Kuwaiti and third-country civilians who disappeared during the Iraqi 
        occupation of Kuwait and these individuals are still unaccounted for; 
        Iraq has engaged in a massive program to develop weapons of mass 
        destruction, including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and the 
        means to deliver such weapons, and it has continued policies of 
        deception in the face of United Nations efforts to uncover and eliminate 
        its program for the production of such weapons of mass destruction; Iraq 
        has supported terrorism as a matter of state policy, including an Iraqi-
        sponsored plot to assassinate former President George Bush; Iraq has 
        pursued brutal policies of suppression against many of its own citizens, 
        in particular against its Kurdish population and its Shi'a Arab 
        population; and Iraq has refused to accept United Nations conditions for 
        the sale of prescribed amounts of oil in order to purchase food, 
        medicines, and other essential civilian materials for the people of 
        Iraq, and the Iraqi government has used the suffering of its own people 
        to generate international sympathy; and, in the midst of this 
        humanitarian crisis, the President Saddam Hussein of Iraq has squandered 
        national resources for the building of additional luxury palaces for 
        himself and other government leaders;
Whereas Mr. Farrakhan visited Iraq and was received by President Saddam Hussein 
        and, while in Iraq, described United States policy toward Iraq as ``a 
        very wicked policy that must be stopped immediately'' and as ``mass 
        murder of the Iraqi people''; and
Whereas, according to reports of the Libyan news agency JANA, Libyan Leader 
        Muammar Qadhafi pledged to Mr. Farrakhan to spend $1,000,000,000 on 
        Muslim causes in the United States, Mr. Farrakhan and Mr. Qadhafi agreed 
        to work together to influence elections in the United States, and Mr. 
        Qadhafi said ``Today we have found a gap in this fortress [meaning the 
        United States] and a way to confront it from the inside'': Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns the visit of Louis Farrakhan to Libya, Iran, 
        and Iraq;
            (2) condemns statements made by Mr. Farrakhan during those 
        visits which are derogatory of the foreign policy of the United 
        States and which support the governments of these countries, 
        all of which are on the list of countries which support 
        terrorism; and
            (3) calls upon the President to direct appropriate Federal 
        government agencies to determine if any United States laws were 
        violated by Mr. Farrakhan by these visits or in statements made 
        by him during these visits or in actions which result from 
        agreements or understandings reached during these visits, and, 
        if so, actively to prosecute any such violations of United 
        States law.
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