[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4648 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4648

  To prohibit assistance to Lebanon unless the Government of Lebanon 
         extradites Mohammed Ali Hammadi to the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 22, 2005

 Mr. Fossella introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee 
 on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit assistance to Lebanon unless the Government of Lebanon 
         extradites Mohammed Ali Hammadi to the United States.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) On June 14, 1985, terrorists hijacked United States 
        jetliner TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome.
            (2) During the 17-day hijacking, one of the terrorists, 
        Mohammed Ali Hammadi, brutally tortured and killed United 
        States Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem aboard the United States 
        jetliner.
            (3) In 1987, Mohammed Ali Hammadi was arrested in 
        Frankfurt, Germany. He was tried and convicted of the murder of 
        United States Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem and sentenced to 
        life imprisonment.
            (4) On December 20, 2005, the Government of Germany 
        released Mohammed Ali Hammadi and allowed him to return to his 
        native Lebanon.
            (5) On December 21, 2005, officials at the United States 
        Departments of Justice and State indicated that they would seek 
        the extradition of Mohammed Ali Hammadi to the United States so 
        he could be tried for his role in the hijacking of TWA Flight 
        847, including the murder of United States Navy diver Robert 
        Dean Stethem.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON.

    (a) Prohibition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
assistance may not be provided to Lebanon on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act unless the President certifies to Congress that 
the Government of Lebanon has extradited Mohammed Ali Hammadi to the 
United States.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``assistance''--
            (1) means assistance in the form of a grant, concessional 
        sale, guaranty, insurance, or by any other means on terms more 
        favorable than is generally available in the applicable market, 
        whether in the form of a loan, lease, credit, debt relief, or 
        otherwise, including subsidies for exports to Lebanon and 
        favorable tariff treatment of articles that are the growth, 
        product, or manufacture of Lebanon; and
            (2) does not include--
                    (A) assistance of the type authorized under chapter 
                9 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
                U.S.C. 2292 et seq.; relating to international disaster 
                assistance); and
                    (B) assistance that involves the provision of food 
                (including monetization of food) or medicine.
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