[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 22, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H2838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         THE LONG WAR ON TERROR

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, we find ourselves in a long war on terror. 
There has been much discussion on Capitol Hill this week and around 
America about blame and about how it is that we ought to inquire and 
investigate institutional failures.
  So I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to remind us that our experience with 
terror in America did not begin on September 11 in Washington and in 
New York. Rather, it began on February 26, 1993, with the first World 
Trade Center bombing. Terrorists blew a hole 6 stories deep in an 
attempt to topple the north tower; Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 American 
soldiers killed; the Khobar Towers in 1996, a barracks housing U.S. 
soldiers, 19 servicemen killed; U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 
1998, 245 killed; the USS Cole in October of 2000, 17 servicemen 
killed.
  We are in a prolonged engagement with terror centered in a single 
terrorist organization. Let us stand with our intelligence committees 
as they rightly inquire into the institutional failures that have 
occurred.

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