[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5290 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5290

To provide private relief for Salah Idris of Saudi Arabia and El Shifa 
    Pharmaceuticals Industries Company relating to the bombing and 
 destruction of the El Shifa Pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 25, 2000

 Mr. Rohrabacher introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide private relief for Salah Idris of Saudi Arabia and El Shifa 
    Pharmaceuticals Industries Company relating to the bombing and 
 destruction of the El Shifa Pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PAYMENT.

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Salah Idris of Saudi Arabia and 
to El Shifa Pharmaceuticals Industries Company the sum of $50,000,000 
in full settlement of their claims arising from the bombing and 
destruction of the El Shifa Pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, on 
August 20, 1998, by the Armed Forces of the United States.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ATTORNEYS' FEES.

    No part of the amounts appropriated under section 1 in excess of 10 
percent thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent 
or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with the 
claim referred to in section 1, and the same shall be unlawful, any 
contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the 
provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed $1,000.
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