[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 140 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 140

   Expressing the disappointment and concern of the Congress on the 
  failure of the United States to properly investigate the Pan Am 103 
bombing and the failure of Libya to grant permission for United States 
Pan Am 103 criminal investigators to investigate and gather evidence in 
                Libya regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 21, 2012

 Ms. Buerkle submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
     Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing the disappointment and concern of the Congress on the 
  failure of the United States to properly investigate the Pan Am 103 
bombing and the failure of Libya to grant permission for United States 
Pan Am 103 criminal investigators to investigate and gather evidence in 
                Libya regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing.

Whereas since 1989, hundreds of Pan Am 103 victims' family members have pursued 
        civil and criminal justice against those responsible for the murder of 
        their loved ones in what remains the second worst terrorist attack on 
        Americans in history;
Whereas there has been no known progress or active criminal investigation since 
        the 1991 indictments of two Libyan intelligence agents and conviction of 
        one over 11 years ago, notwithstanding formal written promises to the 
        U.N. in 2003 to fully cooperate with U.S. criminal investigations, and 
        notwithstanding renewed promises by the Libyan Transitional Council in 
        2011;
Whereas Libya has recently granted permission to the United Kingdom for 
        investigation within Libya by United Kingdom criminal investigators of a 
        London police woman's murder outside the Libyan embassy;
Whereas Libya has promised repeatedly (in 2003, 2011, and 2012) to cooperate 
        with the United States in the Pan Am 103 criminal investigation;
Whereas the United States has provided essential support in protecting those now 
        in the Libyan government and the Libyan people from being killed en 
        masse by Qaddafi forces;
Whereas the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation 
        (FBI) have been claiming for over 20 years that this is ``the largest 
        murder investigation in U.S. history'' but with no visible results since 
        2000;
Whereas Senussi, former head of Qaddafi's infamous External Security 
        Organization that sponsored and carried out Qaddafi regime terrorism 
        against the U.S. and other Western nationals and assassinations of 
        exiled Qaddafi opponents, has now been sent back to Libya by Mauritania; 
        and
Whereas there is still no indication that the United States has sought to use 
        its many tools of witness protection, terrorist reward programs, 
        interrogation of Senussi in Mauritania or Musa Kusa in Qattar, and has 
        not responded to the United Kingdom critics who claim the evidence 
        convicting Megrahi was flawed and/or fabricated by the United States DOJ 
        and FBI: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the Congress--
            (1) requests that the FBI and the Department of Justice 
        report to Congress on the status of the criminal investigation 
        into the Pan Am 103 bombing, including by explaining--
                    (A) why since 2000 it has apparently failed to 
                gather any evidence or interview witnesses (including 
                the former Justice Minister Mustapha M. A. Jalil and 
                now chairman of the Libyan transitional council who has 
                publicly claimed to have proof of Qaddafi and others 
                direct involvement), regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing;
                    (B) why the Office of Foreign Assets Control has 
                removed all travel and financial sanctions on Musa 
                Kusa, former Qaddafi intelligence chief, stated by 
                former U.S. CIA Director George Tenet to be responsible 
                for American bloodshed;
                    (C) why the Department of Justice and the 
                Department of State did not seek extradition from 
                Mauritania of Sinussi, former chief of the Libyan 
                External Security Organization who was named in the 
                United States indictments and convicted by France of 
                the 1989 UTA bombing that murdered 170 people, 
                including six United States residents and Bonnie Pew, 
                the wife of the United States Ambassador to Chad;
                    (D) why the Department of Justice apparently never 
                sought nor obtained access to Megrahi, the only person 
                convicted of the mass murder who was imprisoned in the 
                United Kingdom for 9 years, prior to his death in 
                Tripoli;
                    (E) why, in over 20 years of what it often claimed 
                was the biggest murder investigation in its history, 
                the FBI has not named any of the terrorists, except two 
                lower ranking Libyan intelligence agents, who conspired 
                to murder 270 innocents, including 189 Americans, in 
                the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie 
                Scotland, in route to New York City and Detroit on 
                December 21, 1988; and
                    (F) what resources the Department of Justice has 
                devoted to the Pan Am 103 bombing criminal 
                investigation, including how many persons were assigned 
                to the investigation, the person hours by year and 
                costs of this investigation incurred by the United 
                States Government; and
            (2) requests that Libya grant the United States permission 
        to investigate Libya regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing.
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