[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 402 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 402

  Recognizing the involvement in or support for acts of international 
terrorism by senior officials of the Government of the Republic of the 
    Sudan and calling on Sudan to cease its involvement in acts of 
   international terrorism and to prosecute and punish any Sudanese 
     officials who have supported or have been involved in acts of 
                        international terrorism.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2004

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

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Recognizing the involvement in or support for acts of international 
terrorism by senior officials of the Government of the Republic of the 
    Sudan and calling on Sudan to cease its involvement in acts of 
   international terrorism and to prosecute and punish any Sudanese 
     officials who have supported or have been involved in acts of 
                        international terrorism.

Whereas the Government of the Republic of the Sudan came to power through a 
        military coup in 1989 and, since 1993, has been included by the 
        Department of State on its list of countries that sponsor terrorism;
Whereas Sudan gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden from 1991 to 1996, allowing him 
        to build his terror network worldwide;
Whereas Sudan has refused to disassociate itself from terrorist groups, such as 
        Hamas and Hezbollah that openly maintain offices in Khartoum, and Sudan 
        has refused to close these offices;
Whereas Sheikh Abdel Rahman, the leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 
        received his visa in Khartoum and reportedly was a guest of a senior 
        Sudanese Government official for several weeks;
Whereas of the 15 men indicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, five 
        were Sudanese nationals who had strong ties with Sudanese diplomats 
        stationed in New York at the Mission of the Government of the Republic 
        of Sudan to the United Nations;
Whereas in 1995, members of the terrorist group Gama'a Islamiya tried to 
        assassinate President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt while he was in Ethiopia 
        for a summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity (now referred 
        to as the African Union);
Whereas the 11-man assassination team was given safe haven in Sudan to prepare 
        for its mission to assassinate President Mubarak;
Whereas, according to a United Nations report, the weapons used in the 
        assassination attempt were reportedly flown to Ethiopia by Sudan 
        Airways, and the passports used by the assassins were prepared in 
        Khartoum;
Whereas one of the assassins escaped on Sudan Airways to Sudan, where he joined 
        two other members of the assassination team;
Whereas the United Nations Security Council imposed punitive sanctions on Sudan 
        in 1996, demanding the extradition of the three assassins;
Whereas the whereabouts of the three assassins are currently unknown, although 
        reports suggest that senior Sudanese officials facilitated their escape 
        to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s; and
Whereas not a single senior government official in Sudan has been removed from 
        power or has been imprisoned because of involvement in or support for 
        acts of international terrorism: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the involvement in or support for acts of 
        international terrorism by senior officials of the Government 
        of the Republic of the Sudan;
            (2) calls on the Government of Sudan to cease its 
        involvement in or support for acts of international terrorism 
        and to prosecute and punish any Sudanese officials who have 
        been involved in or supported acts of international terrorism;
            (3) recommends that the Government of Sudan thoroughly 
        revamp and restructure its security services and remove 
        individuals who have been involved in acts of international 
        terrorism as part of a final peace agreement in order to ensure 
        lasting peace and stability in Sudan; and
            (4) requests that the Secretary of State investigate and 
        submit a report to Congress documenting--
                    (A) the involvement in or support of senior 
                officials in the current Government of Sudan in support 
                of acts of terrorism against the United States;
                    (B) the nature and extent of the participation, if 
                any, of senior Sudanese government officials in--
                            (i) the 1993 World Trade Center bombing;
                            (ii) the assassination attempt of President 
                        Hosni Mubarak of Egypt; and
                            (iii) the bombings of the embassies of the 
                        United States in Kenya and Tanzania;
                    (C) the nature and extent of support being provided 
                to Hamas and Hezbollah by Sudan;
                    (D) the presence of Sudanese ``volunteer'' fighters 
                currently in Iraq who have been involved in terror 
                attacks against United States Armed Forces, and the 
                nature and extent of the participation, if any, of 
                Sudan in the facilitation of the movement of these 
                fighters from Sudan to Iraq; and
                    (E) the nature and extent of the participation, if 
                any, of particular Sudanese officials in support of 
                acts of international terrorism, including--
                            (i) Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, First Vice 
                        President;
                            (ii) Dr. Nafee Ali Nafee, Minister of the 
                        Federal Government and former Minister of the 
                        Interior (External Intelligence);
                            (iii) Dr. Ghazi Salahadin, Presidential 
                        Advisor and Senior Member of the National 
                        Islamic Front;
                            (iv) Dr. Awad Ahmed El Jaz, Minister of 
                        Energy and Mining;
                            (v) Dr. Mutref Sadig Nimeri, Director 
                        General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 
                        former Intelligence Chief during the 
                        assassination attempt against President Hosni 
                        Mubarak;
                            (vi) Dr. Qutbi Al-Mahdi, former External 
                        Intelligence Chief;
                            (vii) Major General Salah Abdallah, 
                        Director of the Internal Security Branch;
                            (viii) Major General El Hadi El Nakasha, 
                        Minister of Cabinet Affairs;
                            (ix) Dr. Abul Karim Abdalla, Director of 
                        the External Security Branch;
                            (x) Major General Osama Abdalla, National 
                        Congress Party;
                            (xi) Major General Jamal Zamgan; and
                            (xii) Major General Emad El Din Hussein.
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