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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 82 

Urging the European Union to add Hezbollah to the European Union’s 

wide-ranging list of terrorist organizations. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 15, 2005 

Mr. ALLEN (for himself, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. BAYH, and Mr. SMITH) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 

Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION

Urging the European Union to add Hezbollah to the 

European Union’s wide-ranging list of terrorist organizations.

Whereas Hezbollah is a Lebanon-based radical organization 

with terrorist cells based in Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia, and elsewhere, receiving financial, training, weapons, and political and organizational 

aid from Iran and Syria; 

Whereas Hezbollah has led a 23-year global campaign of terror targeting United States, German, French, British, 

Italian, Israeli, Kuwaiti, Saudi Arabian, Argentinean, 

Thai, Singaporean, and Russian civilians, among others; 

Whereas former Director of Central Intelligence George 

Tenet called Hezbollah ‘‘an organization with the capability and worldwide presence [equal to] al Queda, equal 
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if not far more [of a] capable organization . . . [t]hey’re 

a notch above in many respects . . . which puts them in 

a state sponsored category with a potential for lethality 

that’s quite great’’; 

Whereas Hezbollah has been suspected of numerous terrorist 

acts against United States citizens, including the suicide 

truck bombing of the United States Embassy and Marine 

Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in October 1983, and the 

Embassy annex in Beirut in September 1984; 

Whereas the French unit of the Multinational Force in Beirut was also targeted in the attack of October 1983, in 

which 241 United States soldiers and 58 French paratroopers were killed; 

Whereas Hezbollah has attacked Israeli and Jewish targets in 

South America in the mid-1990s, including the Israeli 

Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 1992, 

and the AMIA Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires 

in July 1994; 

Whereas Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for kidnappings 

of United States and Israeli civilians and French, British, German, and Russian diplomats, among others; 

Whereas even after the Government of Israel’s complied with 

United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 (March 

19, 1978) by withdrawing from Lebanon, Hezbollah has 

continued to carry out attacks against Israel and its citizens; 

Whereas Hezbollah has expanded its operations in the West 

Bank and Gaza Strip, providing training, financing, and 

weapons to Palestinian terrorist organizations on the European Union terrorist list, including the Al Aqsa Mar-
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tyrs Brigade, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and 

the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; 

Whereas in 2004, Hezbollah instigated, financed, or played a 

role in implementing a significant number of Palestinian 

terrorist attacks against Israeli targets; 

Whereas the European Union agreed by consensus to classify 

Hamas as a terrorist organization for purposes of prohibiting funding from the European Union to Hamas; 

Whereas the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty 

Restoration Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note) urges the 

Government of Lebanon to assert the sovereignty of the 

Lebanese state over all of its territory and to evict all terrorist and foreign forces from southern Lebanon, including Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards; 

Whereas, although the European Union has included Imad 

Fayiz Mughniyah, a key operations and intelligence officer of Hezbollah, on its terrorist list, it has not included 

his organization on the list; 

Whereas the United States, Canada, and Australia have all 

classified Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and the 

United Kingdom has placed the Hezbollah External Security Organization on its terrorist list; 

Whereas leaders of Hezbollah have made statements denouncing any distinction between its ‘‘political and military’’ 

operations, such as Hezbollah’s representative in the Lebanese Parliament, Mohammad Raad, who stated in 2001, 

that ‘‘Hezbollah is a military resistance party, and it is 

our task to fight the occupation of our land. . . . There 

is no separation between politics and resistance.’’; 

Whereas in a book recently published by the deputy secretary-general of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, enti-
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tled ‘‘Hezbollah—the Approach, the Experience, the Future’’, Qassem writes ‘‘Hezbollah is a jihad organization 

whose aim, first and foremost, is jihad against the Zionist enemy, while the political, pure and sensible effort can 

serve as a prop and a means of support for jihad’’; 

Whereas United Nations Security Council resolution 1559 

(September 2, 2004), jointly sponsored by the United 

States and France, calls upon all remaining foreign 

forces to withdraw from Lebanon and for the disbanding 

and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias; 

Whereas in December 2004, the Department of State placed 

Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s satellite television network, on the 

Terrorist Exclusion List, and in December 2004, the 

French Council of State banned the broadcasting of AlManar in France; 

Whereas France, Germany, and Great Britain, with the support of the High Representative of the European Union, 

have created a working group with Iran to discuss regional security concerns, including the influence of terror 

perpetuated by Hezbollah and other extremist organizations; and 

Whereas cooperation between the United States and the European Union regarding efforts to combat international 

terrorism is essential to the promotion of global security 

and peace: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) urges the European Union to classify 

3 Hezbollah as a terrorist organization for purposes of 

4 prohibiting funding from the European Union to 
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1 Hezbollah and recognizing it as a threat to inter2 national security; 

3 (2) condemns the continuous terrorist attacks 

4 perpetrated by Hezbollah; 

5 (3) condemns Hezbollah’s continuous support of 

6 Palestinian terrorist organizations on the European 

7 Union terrorist list, such as the Al Aqsa Martyrs 

8 Brigade, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and 

9 the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; 

10 and 

11 (4) calls on Hezbollah to disarm and disband 

12 its militias in Lebanon, as called for in United Na13 tions Security Council resolution 1559 (September 

14 2, 2004).

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