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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3137
To prohibit assistance or reparations to Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Iran, 
Saudi Arabia, and Syria. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 17, 2003
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on 
Financial Services, 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 
A BILL 
To prohibit assistance or reparations to Cuba, Libya, North 
Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Saudi Arabia is the center of Wahabbism, 
the ultra-purist, jihadist form of Islam followed by 
members of Al Qaeda. 
(2) More than 50 percent of the funding of 
Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, comes
from Saudi Arabia, and support for Hamas by Saudi 
Arabia is increasing despite President Bush’s re-
quest to the Government of Saudi Arabia to dis-
continue the provision of assistance to Palestinian 
terrorist groups. 
(3) Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, the Saudi In-
terior Minister and a brother of King Fahd, oversees 
the Saudi Committee for the Support of Al Quds 
Intifada, which provides assistance to the families of 
Palestinian suicide bombers through specially des-
ignated bank accounts. According to Arab News, a 
Saudi daily, a single telethon early last year raised 
approximately $112,000,000 for Al Quds. 
(4) The Government of Saudi Arabia provided 
cash payments of $5,333 to each family of ‘‘mar-
tyrs’’ killed while trying to murder Israelis. 
(5) In June 2003, a senior Saudi official, Dr. 
Abdul Wahid Al-Humaid, published the following 
quote in a series of Saudi periodicals: ‘‘The Jews 
. . . have succeeded in [winning] world sympathy by 
playing on the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities. The 
result has been a world that gradually shifted from 
disliking Jews to sympathizing with them. The Jews 
are masters at manipulating the media, money, 
world organizations and pressure groups.’’.
(6) In the spring of 2002, United States Armed 
Forces in Sarajevo discovered in the office of the 
Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina documents that proved that Saudi Ara-
bia provided funding to Hamas to enable it to 
produce a short-range missile called the ‘‘Qassam’’. 
(7) During the summer of 2000 in San Diego, 
a known Saudi intelligence agent, Omar al-Bayoumi, 
hosted Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, two 
of the individuals who subsequently hijacked com-
mercial aircraft on September 11, 2001, and crashed 
the aircraft into the twin towers of the World Trade 
Center in New York City and into the Pentagon. Al-
Bayoumi met Almihdhar and Alhazmi in Los Ange-
les, directed them to a Muslim community in San 
Diego, and even wrote a check for their apartment 
deposit. 
(8) The wife of the Saudi Ambassador to the 
United States, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, transferred 
$15,000 in 1998, and then $2,000 a month there-
after, to a Saudi resident of San Diego, Osama 
Bassnan. During the same period, Bassnan and an-
other man who apparently also received Saudi finan-
cial support helped two other individuals who subse-
quently committed the terrorist attacks on Sep-
tember 11, 2001. 
(9) For more than a month after the terrorist 
attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, the 
Government of Saudi Arabia refused to freeze the fi-
nancial assets of Osama bin Laden, the individual 
who masterminded the terrorist attacks. 
(10) Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation Robert M. Bryant stated that the 
Government of Saudi Arabia has prevented FBI in-
vestigators from interviewing any civilians who wit-
nessed or may have been involved in the bombing in 
1996 of Khobar Towers, a United States military 
housing installation in Saudi Arabia, in which 19 
United States servicemen were killed. 
(11) In April 1995, the Government of Saudi 
Arabia prevented the United States Government 
from apprehending Imad Mighniyah, the head of the 
Palestinian terrorist organization Hezbollah, and 
who had planned the bombing in 1983 of the United 
States Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in which 
241 Marines were killed. The Government of Saudi 
Arabia ignored the request of United States Na-
tional Security Advisor Anthony Lake to allow the
aircraft that was carrying Mighniyah to land in a lo-
cation where Mighniyah could be apprehended. 
(12) During the first Gulf War, Saudi officials 
would not allow United States troops to hold formal 
Christmas services on Saudi territory, even as the 
United States was protecting Saudi Arabia from 
Iraqi invasion. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST DIRECT FUNDING FOR CER-
TAIN COUNTRIES. 
No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
pursuant to an Act making appropriations for foreign op-
erations, export financing, and related programs may be 
obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance 
or reparations to Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Saudi 
Arabia, or Syria. For purposes of the preceding sentence, 
the prohibition on obligations or expenditures shall include 
direct loans, credits, insurance, and guarantees of the Ex-
port-Import Bank of the United States or its agents.
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