IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 188 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the regime 
of Mu’ammar al-Qadhaffi. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 30, 2011 
Mr. ROHRABACHER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives 
regarding the regime of Mu’ammar al-Qadhaffi. 
Whereas the people of Libya have risen up in rebellion 
against the tyrannical rule of Mu’ammar al-Qadhaffi, a 
man who seized power by force and has ruled by force 
ever since; 
Whereas Qadhaffi has oppressed the people of Libya and 
squandered their wealth; 
Whereas, on March 3, 2011, President Barack Obama said 
about the situation in Libya, ‘‘The violence must stop; 
Mu’ammar Qadhaffi has lost the legitimacy to lead and 
he must leave’’, a position he reaffirmed on March 21, 
2011; 
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Whereas, on March 17, 2011, Qadhaffi threatened a civilian 
massacre by claiming in a radio address, ‘‘We are coming 
tonight . . . We will have no mercy and no pity with 
them’’; 
Whereas Qadhaffi has shown himself to be an enemy of the 
United States and a threat to international security, in-
cluding— 
(1) the April 5, 1986, bombing by Libyan agents of 
the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, which killed 2 
United States soldiers and wounded 50 others, among 
some 200 total victims of the blast; 
(2) the December 21, 1988, destruction of Pan Am 
flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb planted 
by a Libyan agent, killing 190 United States citizens out 
of the total loss of 243 passengers, 16 crew members, 
and 11 civilians on the ground; and 
(3) a clandestine nuclear weapons program, which 
was only ended after the seizure by the United States 
Navy of a shipment of uranium-enrichment components 
bound for Libya in October 2003; and 
Whereas the Libyan people have not asked for United States 
ground troops to do their fighting for them, and Presi-
dent Barack Obama has pledged not to deploy ground 
troops: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that— 
(A) the regime of Mu’ammar al-Qadhaffi is 
no longer the legitimate government of Libya; 
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(B) the Transitional National Council, 
based in eastern Libya at Benghazi and headed 
by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, consisting of those 
Libyans who have declared their intentions to 
establish a constitutional, multi-party democ-
racy, should be considered the legitimate rep-
resentatives of the Libyan people and nation; 
(C) the United States should encourage 
the post-Qadhaffi government to repay the ex-
penses incurred by the United States Armed 
Forces during military operations undertaken to 
protect the Libyan people; and 
(D) as Speaker of the House of Represent-
atives John Boehner wrote in his letter to 
President Obama on March 23, 2011, ‘‘a UN 
Security Council resolution does not substitute 
for a U.S. political and military strategy’’, the 
United States course in Libya must be deter-
mined in accord with United States interests 
and values and in consultation with allies; and 
(2) the House of Representatives— 
(A) supports President Barack Obama’s 
strategy of protecting the Libyan people in their 
struggle for freedom from the Qadhaffi tyranny 
without risking the direct intervention of 
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United States ground forces in the Libyan civil 
war; 
(B) supports the freezing of the assets of 
Qadhaffi and his regime wherever they can be 
found, with the understanding that these assets 
will be made available to the legitimate rep-
resentatives of the Libyan people once they 
have been duly recognized by the United States 
Government; and 
(C) calls for the United States in coopera-
tion with its allies to provide the Libyan free-
dom fighters with the arms, supplies, and other 
materials needed to oust the Qadhaffi regime 
from power and liberate the entire country. 
Æ 
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