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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 374
Condemning the visit of Louis Farrakhan to Libya, Iran, and Iraq and
urging the President to take appropriate action to determine if such
visits and actions resulting from agreements or understandings reached
during these visits violate Federal law.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 7, 1996
Mr. LANTOS (for himself, Mr. KING, Mr. ARMEY, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. HAMIL-
TON, Mr. FROST, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. BAKER of California, Mr.
BALLENGER, Mr. BARR of Georgia, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr.
BASS, Mr. BATEMAN, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. BLILEY, Mr.
BLUTE, Mr. BONO, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. COX of California, Mr. DOO-
LITTLE, Mr. DORNAN, Mr. EMERSON, Mr. EVERETT, Mr. FOLEY, Mr.
FRANKS of Connecticut, Mr. FRISA, Mr. FUNDERBURK, Mr. GEJDENSON,
Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. HALL of Texas, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. HEINEMAN, Mr.
HOLDEN, Mr. HOSTETTLER, Ms. LOFGREN, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. MOLINARI,
Mr. SAXTON, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. STOCKMAN,
Mr. TORRICELLI, Mrs. VUCANOVICH, Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma, Mr.
WELLER, and Mr. ZIMMER) submitted the following resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on International Relations
RESOLUTION
Condemning the visit of Louis Farrakhan to Libya, Iran,
and Iraq and urging the President to take appropriate
action to determine if such visits and actions resulting
from agreements or understandings reached during these
visits violate Federal law.
Whereas Libya, Iran and Iraq are countries designated by
the Secretary of State under section 40(d) of the Arms
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Export Control Act, title 22, United States Code, section
2780(d) as state sponsors of terrorism; and whereas
Louis Farrakhan recently visited Libya, Iran, and Iraq;
Whereas the Government of Libya has steadfastly refused to
hand over for trial the two individuals now in Libya who
are accused of involvement in the bombing of Pan Am
flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, in which
two hundred and sixty-nine individuals, including many
American citizens, lost their lives, and the United Na-
tions Security Council has voted to impose international
sanctions against Libya for its failure to hand over for
trial these accused individuals; Libya has attempted to
subvert and destablilize Arab and African countries by
supporting coups, funding and training opposition forces
and guerilla groups, and Libya has, at one time or an-
other, invaded, occupied, or claimed territory in the coun-
tries of Niger, Chad, Tunisia, and Algeria; Libya has de-
veloped the capability to produce chemical weapons,
maintains stocks of chemical weapons, and is seeking bal-
listic missiles capable of delivering such weapons; Libya
has been identified as a state supporter of terrorism, the
Abu Nidal terrorist organization maintains a presence in
Libya, terrorist organizations have repeatedly been in-
vited to Libya, and the Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Qa-
dhafi praised as ‘‘heroic’’ the October 1994 suicide bomb-
ing of a Tel Aviv bus that killed and injured dozens of
innocent people;
Whereas Louis Farrakhan visited Libya and met with Leader
Qadhafi, and, according to reports from the Libyan news
agency JANA, wrote in the visitors’ book at a monument
to perpetuate anti-American sentiment: ‘‘I implore God to