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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 101
Urging the European Union to add Hezbollah to the European Union’s 
wide-ranging list of terrorist organizations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2005
Mr. SAXTON (for himself, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. CAN-
TOR, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. MENENDEZ, and Mr. ACKERMAN) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
International 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 Amer-
ica, South America, Asia, and elsewhere, receiving finan-
cial, training, weapons, and political and organizational 
aid from Iran and Syria; 
Whereas Hezbollah has led a 23-year global campaign of ter-
ror targeting American, 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 capa-
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bility and worldwide presence [equal to] al Queda, equal 
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 Americans, including the suicide truck bomb-
ing of the United States Embassy and Marine Barracks 
in Beirut in October 1983 and the Embassy annex in 
Beirut in September 1984; 
Whereas the French unit of the Multinational Force in Bei-
rut was also targeted in the October 1983 attack, in 
which 241 United States soldiers and 58 French para-
troopers 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, Brit-
ish, German, and Russian diplomats, among others; 
Whereas even after the adherence of Israel to United Nations 
Security Council Resolution 425 (1978) by withdrawing 
from Lebanon, Hezbollah has continued to carry out at-
tacks 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 Eu-
ropean 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 nearly 80 percent of Palestinian ter-
rorist attacks against Israeli targets, resulting in over 20 
percent of Israeli casualties in terrorist attacks for that 
year; 
Whereas the European Union agreed by consensus to classify 
Hamas, another Palestinian terrorist organization, 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 (Public Law 108–175) urges the 
Government of Lebanon to assert the sovereignty of the 
Lebanese state over all of its territory and to evict all ter-
rorist and foreign forces from southern Lebanon, includ-
ing Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards; 
Whereas, although the European Union has included Imad 
Fayiz Mughniyah, a key operations and intelligence offi-
cer of Hezbollah, on its terrorist list, it has not included 
his organization on the list; 
Whereas the United States, the United Kingdom, 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 denounc-
ing any distinction between its ‘‘political and military’’ 
operations, such as Hezbollah’s representative in the Leb-
anese Parliament, Mohammad Raad, who stated in 2001 
that ‘‘Hezbollah is a military resistance party, and it is
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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 sec-
retary-general of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, enti-
tled ‘‘Hezbollah -- the Approach, the Experience, the Fu-
ture’’, Qassem writes ‘‘Hezbollah is a jihad organization 
whose aim, first and foremost, is jihad against the Zion-
ist 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 
(2004), jointly sponsored by the United States and 
France, calls upon all remaining foreign forces to with-
draw from Lebanon and for the disbanding and disar-
mament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, 
among other things; 
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 Al-
Manar in France 
Whereas France, Germany, and Great Britain, with the sup-
port of the High Representative of the European Union, 
have created a working group with Iran to discuss re-
gional security concerns, including the influence of terror 
stemming from Hezbollah and other extremist organiza-
tions; and 
Whereas cooperation between the United States and the Eu-
ropean Union regarding combating international ter-
rorism is essential to the promotion of global security and 
peace: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
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(1) urges the European Union to classify 
Hezbollah as a terrorist organization for purposes of 
prohibiting funding from the European Union to 
Hezbollah and recognizing it as a threat to inter-
national security; 
(2) condemns the continuous terrorist attacks 
perpetrated by Hezbollah; and 
(3) condemns Hezbollah’s continuous support of 
Palestinian terrorist organizations on the European 
Union terrorist list, such as the Al Aqsa Martyrs 
Brigade, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and 
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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