[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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