[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 89 (Wednesday, June 29, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H5367]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TEN EUROS FOR THE IRAQI RESISTANCE

  (Mrs. KELLY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, extremist groups in Europe are providing 
financial support to the insurgents in Iraq, and they will be openly 
gathering later this year on Italian soil to continue their plotting.
  Shortly after the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom, they began 
a fund-raising campaign, asking people to donate ``ten euros to the 
Iraq insurgency.'' The revolting image behind me, dramatizing a violent 
assault on a U.S. soldier, was taken from the Web site of a group 
actively supporting the 10-year-old campaign.
  It seems to me it conveys accurately the murderous intentions behind 
this fund-raising initiative. When questioned as to whether the 
campaign would support terrorism in Iraq, a spokesman for the fund-
raising effort said, ``We support the armed struggle in Iraq. Our money 
is to help them. It doesn't matter to us if they use it to buy weapons, 
Kalashnikovs, or medicines for the people.''
  The group reportedly sent supplies to the Al Anbar province as 
recently as February of this year. Now they are notifying comrades of a 
conference this October in Rome to grow support for insurgents 
throughout the world.
  My colleagues, we hold different opinions about our efforts in Iraq, 
but we should all stand together in fighting those who support the 
insurgents, killing Americans and innocent Iraqis.

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