IV 112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 241 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 3, 2011 Mr. McCotter submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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 RESOLUTION Honoring the members of the United States Armed Forces, the intelligence community, and the Obama and Bush Administrations whose dedicated service brought the murderous terrorist leader Osama bin Laden to justice.

Whereas, for over two decades, the murderer Osama bin Laden and his transnational terrorist network al Qaeda have menaced people’s lives, liberty and property throughout the world; Whereas Osama bin Laden and his murderous network perpetrated the September 11, 2001, attacks, which resulted in the deaths of 2,752 innocent people in New York City, 184 people at the Pentagon, and 45 passengers and crew members aboard United Airlines Flight 93 in Stony Creek Township, Pennsylvania; Whereas the heinous criminal history of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network further involves hijackings, bombings, and murders of American and allied civilians and military personnel, ranging from the July 7, 2005, London bus bombings to the Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004, to the bombings of the U.S.S. Cole and the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; Whereas, for his craven terrorist acts, Osama bin Laden was criminally charged by the United States Department of Justice and indicted in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; Whereas, after nearly a decade of courage, dedication, and perseverance by members of the United States Armed Forces, the intelligence community, and the Obama and Bush Administrations, a mission conducted in Abbottabad, Pakistan, has brought Osama bin Laden to justice; and Whereas the death of Osama bin Laden has not completed the eradication of his murderous terrorist network and its cowardly cohorts: Now, therefore, be it

That the House of Representatives— (1)congratulates and salutes the members of the United States Armed Forces, the intelligence community, and the Obama and Bush Administrations for bringing Osama bin Laden to justice; (2)remembers the fallen and comforts the families grievously wounded by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and by all Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda’s other crimes; and (3)reaffirms the dedication of the United States to the prompt and just eradication of al Qaeda and all terrorist organizations and their cohorts, and to victory in the war for freedom against terrorism.