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punish our enemies hundreds of times, just as they did
to us and against you’’;
Whereas the Government of Iran was involved in the taking
of over fifty United States diplomats hostage in 1979 and
continued to hold them hostage under extremely difficult
conditions for over one full year; and Iran continues to
exhibit hostility toward the United States, poses a threat
to the peace and stability of the gulf region, and has been
a major supporter of terrorist organizations, including
Hizbollah, which is responsible for the deaths of Amer-
ican citizens in Lebanon and elsewhere;
Whereas Mr. Farrakhan was a guest of honor at a rally in
Tehran celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian
revolution and while in Tehran was quoted by the Iranian
newspaper Kayhan as having said, ‘‘You can quote me:
God will destroy America by the hands of Moslems;’’ ac-
cording to Agence France Presse, he ‘‘paid tribute . . .
to Iran on the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic revolution
as a crowd of tens of thousands chanted ‘Death to Amer-
ica’ ’’; and according to the Associated Press said, ‘‘We
live in the center of corruption and struggle in the heart
of the Great Satan’’;
Whereas the Government of Iraq brutally invaded Kuwait in
August 1990 and withdrew only after massive military
intervention led by the United States; Iraq has failed to
provide information on some six hundred Kuwaiti and
third-country civilians who disappeared during the Iraqi
occupation of Kuwait and these individuals are still unac-
counted for; Iraq has engaged in a massive program to
develop weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear,
biological and chemical weapons, and the means to de-
liver such weapons, and it has continued policies of de-
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ception in the face of United Nations efforts to uncover
and eliminate its program for the production of such
weapons of mass destruction; Iraq has supported terror-
ism as a matter of state policy, including an Iraqi-spon-
sored plot to assassinate former President George Bush;
Iraq has pursued brutal policies of suppression against
many of its own citizens, using poison gas against its
Kurdish population and pursuing policies of extermi-
nation against its Shi’a Arab population; and Iraq has re-
fused to accept United Nations conditions for the sale of
prescribed amounts of oil in order to purchase food,
medicines, and other essential civilian materials for the
people of Iraq, and therefore the Iraqi government is re-
sponsible for the suffering of its own people; and, in the
midst of this humanitarian crises, the President Saddam
Hussein has squandered national resources for the build-
ing of additional luxury palaces for himself, his family,
and members of his ruling circle;
Whereas Mr. Farrakhan visited Iraq and was received by
President Saddam Hussein and, while in Iraq, described
United States policy toward Iraq as ‘‘a very wicked policy
that must be stopped immediately’’ and as ‘‘mass murder
of the Iraqi people’’; and
Whereas, according to reports of the Libyan news agency
JANA, Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Qadhafi pledged to
give Mr. Farrakhan $1,000,000,000 for his activities in
the United States, Farrakhan and Qadhafi agreed to
work together to influence elections in the United States,
and Qadhafi said, ‘‘Today we have found a gap in this
fortress (the United States) and a way to confront it
from the inside’’: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
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(1) condemns the visit of Louis Farrakhan to
Libya, Iran, and Iraq;
(2) 
condemns 
statements 
made 
by 
Mr.
Farrakhan during those visits which support the
governments of these countries, all of which have
been designated by the Secretary of State as state
sponsors of terrorism; and
(3) calls upon the President to direct appro-
priate Federal Government agencies to determine if
any United States laws were violated by Mr.
Farrakhan by these visits or by actions which result
from agreements or understandings reached during
these visits, and, if so, to prosecute vigorously any
such violations of United States law.
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