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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. CON. RES. 140 

Expressing the disappointment and concern of the Congress on the failure 

of the United States to properly investigate the Pan Am 103 bombing 

and the failure of Libya to grant permission for United States Pan 

Am 103 criminal investigators to investigate and gather evidence in 

Libya regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 

Ms. BUERKLE submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Expressing the disappointment and concern of the Congress 

on the failure of the United States to properly investigate 

the Pan Am 103 bombing and the failure of Libya to 

grant permission for United States Pan Am 103 criminal 

investigators to investigate and gather evidence in Libya 

regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing. 

Whereas since 1989, hundreds of Pan Am 103 victims’ family 

members have pursued civil and criminal justice against 

those responsible for the murder of their loved ones in 

what remains the second worst terrorist attack on Americans in history; 


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Whereas there has been no known progress or active criminal 

investigation since the 1991 indictments of two Libyan 

intelligence agents and conviction of one over 11 years 

ago, notwithstanding formal written promises to the U.N. 

in 2003 to fully cooperate with U.S. criminal investigations, and notwithstanding renewed promises by the Libyan Transitional Council in 2011; 

Whereas Libya has recently granted permission to the United 

Kingdom for investigation within Libya by United Kingdom criminal investigators of a London police woman’s 

murder outside the Libyan embassy; 

Whereas Libya has promised repeatedly (in 2003, 2011, and 

2012) to cooperate with the United States in the Pan Am 

103 criminal investigation; 

Whereas the United States has provided essential support in 

protecting those now in the Libyan government and the 

Libyan people from being killed en masse by Qaddafi 

forces; 

Whereas the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been claiming for over 

20 years that this is ‘‘the largest murder investigation in 

U.S. history’’ but with no visible results since 2000; 

Whereas Senussi, former head of Qaddafi’s infamous External Security Organization that sponsored and carried out 

Qaddafi regime terrorism against the U.S. and other 

Western nationals and assassinations of exiled Qaddafi 

opponents, has now been sent back to Libya by Mauritania; and 

Whereas there is still no indication that the United States 

has sought to use its many tools of witness protection, 

terrorist reward programs, interrogation of Senussi in 


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Mauritania or Musa Kusa in Qattar, and has not responded to the United Kingdom critics who claim the evidence convicting Megrahi was flawed and/or fabricated by 

the United States DOJ and FBI: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That the Congress— 

3 (1) requests that the FBI and the Department 

4 of Justice report to Congress on the status of the 

5 criminal investigation into the Pan Am 103 bomb6 ing, including by explaining— 

7 (A) why since 2000 it has apparently failed 

8 to gather any evidence or interview witnesses 

9 (including the former Justice Minister 

10 Mustapha M. A. Jalil and now chairman of the 

11 Libyan transitional council who has publicly 

12 claimed to have proof of Qaddafi and others di13 rect involvement), regarding the Pan Am 103 

14 bombing; 

15 (B) why the Office of Foreign Assets Con16 trol has removed all travel and financial sanc17 tions on Musa Kusa, former Qaddafi intel18 ligence chief, stated by former U.S. CIA Direc19 tor George Tenet to be responsible for Amer20 ican bloodshed; 

21 (C) why the Department of Justice and 

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1 dition from Mauritania of Sinussi, former chief 

2 of the Libyan External Security Organization 

3 who was named in the United States indict4 ments and convicted by France of the 1989 

5 UTA bombing that murdered 170 people, in6 cluding six United States residents and Bonnie 

7 Pew, the wife of the United States Ambassador 

8 to Chad; 

9 (D) why the Department of Justice appar10 ently never sought nor obtained access to 

11 Megrahi, the only person convicted of the mass 

12 murder who was imprisoned in the United 

13 Kingdom for 9 years, prior to his death in Trip14 oli; 

15 (E) why, in over 20 years of what it often 

16 claimed was the biggest murder investigation in 

17 its history, the FBI has not named any of the 

18 terrorists, except two lower ranking Libyan in19 telligence agents, who conspired to murder 270 

20 innocents, including 189 Americans, in the 

21 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie 

22 Scotland, in route to New York City and De23 troit on December 21, 1988; and 

24 (F) what resources the Department of Jus25 tice has devoted to the Pan Am 103 bombing 


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1 criminal investigation, including how many per2 sons were assigned to the investigation, the per3 son hours by year and costs of this investiga4 tion incurred by the United States Government; 

5 and 

6 (2) requests that Libya grant the United States 

7 permission to investigate Libya regarding the Pan 

8 Am 103 bombing. 

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