IV 
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 re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in 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 Ameri-
cans 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 investiga-
tions, and notwithstanding renewed promises by the Lib-
yan Transitional Council in 2011; 
Whereas Libya has recently granted permission to the United 
Kingdom for investigation within Libya by United King-
dom 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 Bu-
reau 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 Exter-
nal 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 Mauri-
tania; 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 re-
sponded to the United Kingdom critics who claim the evi-
dence convicting Megrahi was flawed and/or fabricated by 
the United States DOJ and FBI: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That the Congress— 
(1) requests that the FBI and the Department 
of Justice report to Congress on the status of the 
criminal investigation into the Pan Am 103 bomb-
ing, including by explaining— 
(A) why since 2000 it has apparently failed 
to gather any evidence or interview witnesses 
(including 
the 
former 
Justice 
Minister 
Mustapha M. A. Jalil and now chairman of the 
Libyan transitional council who has publicly 
claimed to have proof of Qaddafi and others di-
rect involvement), regarding the Pan Am 103 
bombing; 
(B) why the Office of Foreign Assets Con-
trol has removed all travel and financial sanc-
tions on Musa Kusa, former Qaddafi intel-
ligence chief, stated by former U.S. CIA Direc-
tor George Tenet to be responsible for Amer-
ican bloodshed; 
(C) why the Department of Justice and 
the Department of State did not seek extra-
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dition from Mauritania of Sinussi, former chief 
of the Libyan External Security Organization 
who was named in the United States indict-
ments and convicted by France of the 1989 
UTA bombing that murdered 170 people, in-
cluding six United States residents and Bonnie 
Pew, the wife of the United States Ambassador 
to Chad; 
(D) why the Department of Justice appar-
ently never sought nor obtained access to 
Megrahi, the only person convicted of the mass 
murder who was imprisoned in the United 
Kingdom for 9 years, prior to his death in Trip-
oli; 
(E) why, in over 20 years of what it often 
claimed was the biggest murder investigation in 
its history, the FBI has not named any of the 
terrorists, except two lower ranking Libyan in-
telligence agents, who conspired to murder 270 
innocents, including 189 Americans, in the 
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie 
Scotland, in route to New York City and De-
troit on December 21, 1988; and 
(F) what resources the Department of Jus-
tice has devoted to the Pan Am 103 bombing 
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criminal investigation, including how many per-
sons were assigned to the investigation, the per-
son hours by year and costs of this investiga-
tion incurred by the United States Government; 
and 
(2) requests that Libya grant the United States 
permission to investigate Libya regarding the Pan 
Am 103 bombing. 
Æ 
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