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[H. Con. Res. 220 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 220


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 6, 1998

      Received and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
                Regarding American victims of terrorism.

Whereas the traditional policy of the United States, reiterated by this 
        Administration, has been to vigorously pursue and apprehend terrorists 
        who have killed American citizens in other countries;
Whereas numerous American citizens have been killed by Palestinian terrorists, 
        most of them in Israel or the Israeli administered territories, 
        including 9 since the signing of

the Oslo Accords in 1993, namely Nachshon Wachsman (New York), Alisa Flatow 
(New Jersey), Sara Duker (New Jersey), Matthew Eisenfeld (Connecticut), 
Joan Davenny (Connecticut), David Boim (New York), Yaron Ungar (New York), 
Leah Stern (New Jersey), and Yael Botwin (California);

Whereas at least 20 of the terrorists suspected in the killings of American 
        citizens in Israel or the Israeli administered territories during 1993-
        1997 have been identified by Israel as Mohammed Dief, Nabil Sharihi, 
        Nafez Sabih, Imjad Hinawi, Abd al-Maid Dudin, Adel Awadallah, Ibrahim 
        Ghneimat, and Mahmoud Abu Hanudeh, Abd al-Rahman Ghanelmat, Jamal al-
        Hur, Raid Abu Hamadayah, Mohammad Abu Wardah, Hassan Salamah, Abd Rabu 
        Shaykh 'Id, Hamdallah Tzramah, Abd Al-Nasser Atallah Issa, Hataham 
        Ibrahim Ismail, Jihad Mahammad Shaker Yamur, and Mohammad Abbasm;
Whereas, according to the Israeli Government, 10 of those 20 terrorist suspects 
        are currently believed to be free men;
Whereas the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 permits the prosecution, in the United 
        States, of individuals who murder American citizens abroad; and
Whereas the United States has previously acted to bring to justice those 
        responsible for the deaths of American citizens and has established a 
        precedence of United States intervention by demanding that Libyan leader 
        Moammar Qadaffi transfer to the United States the Libyan terrorists 
        suspected of bombing Pan Am flight 103: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that--
            (1) the United States should demand the prosecution of all 
        suspected perpetrators of these attacks against United States 
        citizens;
            (2) the United States should seek the cooperation of the 
        Palestinian Authority and all other appropriate authorities in 
        the prosecution of these cases; and
            (3) the suspects should be tried in the United States 
        unless it is determined that such action is contrary to 
        effective prosecution.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 5, 1998.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.