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108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3137

To prohibit assistance or reparations to Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Iran, 

Saudi Arabia, and Syria. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 17, 2003

Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on 

Financial Services, 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 

A BILL

To prohibit assistance or reparations to Cuba, Libya, North 

Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

4 Congress makes the following findings: 

5 (1) Saudi Arabia is the center of Wahabbism, 

6 the ultra-purist, jihadist form of Islam followed by 

7 members of Al Qaeda. 

8 (2) More than 50 percent of the funding of 

9 Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, comes 
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1 from Saudi Arabia, and support for Hamas by Saudi 

2 Arabia is increasing despite President Bush’s re3 quest to the Government of Saudi Arabia to dis4 continue the provision of assistance to Palestinian 

5 terrorist groups. 

6 (3) Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, the Saudi In7 terior Minister and a brother of King Fahd, oversees 

8 the Saudi Committee for the Support of Al Quds 

9 Intifada, which provides assistance to the families of 

10 Palestinian suicide bombers through specially des11 ignated bank accounts. According to Arab News, a 

12 Saudi daily, a single telethon early last year raised 

13 approximately $112,000,000 for Al Quds. 

14 (4) The Government of Saudi Arabia provided 

15 cash payments of $5,333 to each family of ‘‘mar16 tyrs’’ killed while trying to murder Israelis. 

17 (5) In June 2003, a senior Saudi official, Dr. 

18 Abdul Wahid Al-Humaid, published the following 

19 quote in a series of Saudi periodicals: ‘‘The Jews 

20 . . . have succeeded in [winning] world sympathy by 

21 playing on the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities. The 

22 result has been a world that gradually shifted from 

23 disliking Jews to sympathizing with them. The Jews 

24 are masters at manipulating the media, money, 

25 world organizations and pressure groups.’’. 
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1 (6) In the spring of 2002, United States Armed 

2 Forces in Sarajevo discovered in the office of the 

3 Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and 

4 Herzegovina documents that proved that Saudi Ara5 bia provided funding to Hamas to enable it to 

6 produce a short-range missile called the ‘‘Qassam’’. 

7 (7) During the summer of 2000 in San Diego, 

8 a known Saudi intelligence agent, Omar al-Bayoumi, 

9 hosted Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, two 

10 of the individuals who subsequently hijacked com11 mercial aircraft on September 11, 2001, and crashed 

12 the aircraft into the twin towers of the World Trade 

13 Center in New York City and into the Pentagon. Al14 Bayoumi met Almihdhar and Alhazmi in Los Ange15 les, directed them to a Muslim community in San 

16 Diego, and even wrote a check for their apartment 

17 deposit. 

18 (8) The wife of the Saudi Ambassador to the 

19 United States, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, transferred 

20 $15,000 in 1998, and then $2,000 a month there21 after, to a Saudi resident of San Diego, Osama 

22 Bassnan. During the same period, Bassnan and an23 other man who apparently also received Saudi finan24 cial support helped two other individuals who subse-
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1 quently committed the terrorist attacks on Sep2 tember 11, 2001. 

3 (9) For more than a month after the terrorist 

4 attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, the 

5 Government of Saudi Arabia refused to freeze the fi6 nancial assets of Osama bin Laden, the individual 

7 who masterminded the terrorist attacks. 

8 (10) Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau 

9 of Investigation Robert M. Bryant stated that the 

10 Government of Saudi Arabia has prevented FBI in11 vestigators from interviewing any civilians who wit12 nessed or may have been involved in the bombing in 

13 1996 of Khobar Towers, a United States military 

14 housing installation in Saudi Arabia, in which 19 

15 United States servicemen were killed. 

16 (11) In April 1995, the Government of Saudi 

17 Arabia prevented the United States Government 

18 from apprehending Imad Mighniyah, the head of the 

19 Palestinian terrorist organization Hezbollah, and 

20 who had planned the bombing in 1983 of the United 

21 States Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in which 

22 241 Marines were killed. The Government of Saudi 

23 Arabia ignored the request of United States Na24 tional Security Advisor Anthony Lake to allow the 
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1 aircraft that was carrying Mighniyah to land in a lo2 cation where Mighniyah could be apprehended. 

3 (12) During the first Gulf War, Saudi officials 

4 would not allow United States troops to hold formal 

5 Christmas services on Saudi territory, even as the 

6 United States was protecting Saudi Arabia from 

7 Iraqi invasion. 

8 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST DIRECT FUNDING FOR CER9 TAIN COUNTRIES. 

10 No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 

11 pursuant to an Act making appropriations for foreign op12 erations, export financing, and related programs may be 

13 obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance 

14 or reparations to Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Saudi 

15 Arabia, or Syria. For purposes of the preceding sentence, 

16 the prohibition on obligations or expenditures shall include 

17 direct loans, credits, insurance, and guarantees of the Ex18 port-Import Bank of the United States or its agents.

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