[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 374 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
H. RES. 374

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 1996

Mr. Lantos (for himself, Mr. King, Mr. Armey, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Hamilton, 
 Mr. Frost, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Baker of California, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. 
 Barr of Georgia, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Bass, Mr. Bateman, Mr. 
 Bereuter, Mr. Berman, Mr. Bliley, Mr. Blute, Mr. Bono, Mr. Campbell, 
  Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Dornan, Mr. Emerson, Mr. 
     Everett, Mr. Foley, Mr. Franks of Connecticut, Mr. Frisa, Mr. 
Funderburk, Mr. Gejdenson, Mr. Gillmor, Mr. Hall of Texas, Ms. Harman, 
Mr. Heineman, Mr. Holden, Mr. Hostettler, Ms. Lofgren, Mrs. Lowey, Ms. 
    Molinari, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Skelton, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. 
 Stockman, Mr. Torricelli, Mrs. Vucanovich, Mr. Watts of Oklahoma, Mr. 
 Weller, and Mr. Zimmer) 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 and 
 urging the President to take appropriate action to determine if such 
visits 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 
        two hundred and sixty-nine 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 destablilize Arab and African countries by supporting coups, 
        funding and training opposition forces and guerilla 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 Mu'ammar 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: ``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 fifty 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 is 
        responsible for the deaths of American citizens in Lebanon and 
        elsewhere;
Whereas Mr. Farrakhan was a guest of honor at a rally in Tehran celebrating the 
        anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution 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, 
        using poison gas against its Kurdish population and pursuing policies of 
        extermination against 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 therefore the Iraqi government is 
        responsible for the suffering of its own people; and, in the midst of 
        this humanitarian crises, the President Saddam Hussein has squandered 
        national resources for the building of additional luxury palaces for 
        himself, his family, and members of his ruling circle;
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 
        Mu'ammar Qadhafi pledged to give Mr. Farrakhan $1,000,000,000 for his 
        activities in the United States, Farrakhan and Qadhafi agreed to work 
        together to influence elections in the United States, and Qadhafi said, 
        ``Today we have found a gap in this fortress (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 support the governments of these countries, all of 
        which have been designated by the Secretary of State as state 
        sponsors of 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 by actions which 
        result from agreements or understandings reached during these 
        visits, and, if so, to prosecute vigorously any such violations 
        of United States law.
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