[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6850]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HORROR IN SAUDI ARABIA

  (Mr. HASTINGS of Florida asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Madam Speaker, like my colleagues 
previously, I rise to offer my heartfelt condolences to the families of 
the victims and the injured survivors of the bombing in Dhahran, Saudi 
Arabia. Also, Madam Speaker, on behalf of the minority of this House, I 
would like to thank them for recognizing this as the priority issue of 
the day in allowing the first few of us to speak to this concern.
  Terrorism and extremism know no territorial boundary. We must, here 
in this House, engage the international community in working vigilantly 
to identify and eradicate the perpetrators of terrorism at their 
cancerous roots. We in this body must give our law enforcers the tools 
they need to infiltrate terrorist organizations, deport terrorists and 
choke their funding mechanisms.
  As President Clinton said yesterday, whoever harms an American 
anywhere in the world will pay. The difference, however, between us and 
the perpetrators of this kind of crime is that we resolve our disputes 
in a legal fashion using the rule of law and not of the jungle or 
desert.

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