[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2397]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WORLD LEADERS FOCUSED ON TERRORISM

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, during the Presidents' Day 
break, I was grateful to chair a delegation to visit with President 
Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and President 
Fuad Masum of Iraq, along with Defense Minister Khaled al-Obaidi of 
Iraq. Each leader clearly wants to protect their citizens from 
terrorism.
  I was joined by the dynamic Elise Stefanik of New York, four-tour 
Iraq veteran Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, and hardworking Brad 
Ashford of Nebraska.
  It is more clear than ever that Daesh, the Arab interpretation of 
ISIL, is a growing threat to the American people, and we must 
forcefully defeat the barbarian murderers with our courageous allies 
abroad.
  Radical Islam has declared war on Americans and targets fellow 
Muslims, as evidenced during our visit. We have seen in the last 10 
days the slaughter of 40 worshippers at a mosque in Pakistan, the 
burning of over 30 innocent civilians in Iraq, the beheadings of 21 
Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya, and Jews murdered in Copenhagen.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and may the President, by his 
actions, never forget September the 11th in the global war on 
terrorism.

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