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
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.