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(23) On February 15, 2002, United States cit-
izen Lee Akunis, was shot and killed near Ramallah. 
(24) On February 16, 2002, Keren Shatsky, 
14, of New York City and Maine, and Rachel 
Thaler, 16, of Baltimore, Maryland, were killed in a 
bombing in Karnei Shomron. 
(25) On March 24, 2002, Esther Kleinman, 23, 
formerly of Chicago, was shot and killed near Ofra. 
(26) On March 27, 2002, United States citizen 
Hannah Rogen, 90, was killed in a bombing at a 
hotel Passover seder in Netanya. 
(27) On June 18, 2002, Moshe Gottlieb, 70, of 
Los Angeles, was killed in a bus bombing in Jeru-
salem. 
(28) On June 19, 2002, United States citizen 
Gila Sara Kessler, 19, was killed in a bombing at a 
Jerusalem bus stop. 
(29) On July 31, 2002, five United States citi-
zens were killed in a bombing of a Hebrew Univer-
sity cafeteria: Marla Bennett, 24, of San Diego, 
Benjamin Blutstein, 25, of Susquehanna Township, 
Pennsylvania, Janis Ruth Coulter, 36, of Massachu-
setts, David Gritz, 24, of Peru, Massachusetts (and 
of dual French-United States citizenship), and Dina 
Carter, 37, of North Carolina.
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(30) On March 5, 2003, Abigail Leitel, 14, who 
was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, died in a bus 
bombing in Haifa. 
(31) On March 7, 2003, a shooting occurred in 
the home of United States citizens Rabbi Eli Horo-
witz, 52, who grew up in Chicago, and Dina Horo-
witz, 50, who grew up in Florida, and both were 
killed. 
(32) On June 11, 2003, Alan Beer, 47, who 
grew up in Cleveland, was killed in a bus bombing 
in Jerusalem. 
(33) On June 20, 2003, a shooting attack on 
a car driving through the West Bank killed United 
States citizen Tzvi Goldstein, 47, who grew up in 
the State of New York. 
(34) On August 19, 2003, Mordechai Reinitz, 
49, Yitzhak Reinitz, 9, Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of 
Monsey, New York, Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, of New 
Square, New York, and Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 
months, of New Square, New York, were killed in a 
homicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem. 
(35) On September 9, 2003, a homicide bomber 
killed United States citizens David Applebaum, 51, 
originally of Cleveland, and Nava Applebaum, 20, 
originally of Cleveland, in a cafe in Jerusalem.
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(36) On October 15, 2003, United States citi-
zens John Branchizio, 36, of San Antonio, Texas, 
John Martin Linde, Jr., 30, of Washington, Mis-
souri, and Mark T. Parson, 31, of the State of New 
York were killed in a car bombing in Gaza. 
(37) On September 24, 2004, a mortar strike 
on a housing community killed Tiferet Tratner, 24, 
a dual United States-Israeli citizen. 
(38) At least another 83 United States citizens 
have been injured in Palestinian terrorist attacks. 
(39) Palestinian terrorism continues to happen 
as demonstrated by the bombing in Tel Aviv on Feb-
ruary 25, 2005, despite the recent elections and a 
new sense of optimism in the region. 
(40) The United States is willing to continue to 
work with Palestinian leaders under the condition 
that the newly elected Palestinian leadership reject 
and take verifiable steps to prevent terrorism. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—Congress—
(1) condemns the attacks on United States citi-
zens by Palestinian terrorists and demands that the 
Palestinian Authority work with Israel to protect all 
innocent individuals, regardless of citizenship, from 
terrorist atrocities; and
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(2) offers its condolences to the families and 
loved ones of United States citizens who were killed 
by Palestinian terrorist attacks. 
SEC. 1416. STATEMENT OF POLICY REGARDING TRANSFER 
OF CHARLES TAYLOR FOR TRIAL FOR WAR 
CRIMES. 
It shall be the policy of the United States Govern-
ment to seek the expeditious transfer of Charles Ghankay 
Taylor, former President of the Republic of Liberia, to the 
jurisdiction of the Special Court for Sierra Leone to un-
dergo a fair and open trial for war crimes, crimes against 
humanity, and other serious violations of international hu-
manitarian law. 
SEC. 1417. UNITED STATES COMMITMENT TO IRAQ. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The men and women of the United States 
Armed Forces fighting in Iraq are serving with brav-
ery, distinction, and high morale. 
(2) The men and women of the United States 
Armed Forces fighting in Iraq need and deserve the 
full support of the American people. 
(3) The men and women of the United States 
Armed Forces fighting in Iraq are part of a large, 
multinational coalition, and are serving side-by-side
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with Iraqi national forces who have been trained by 
that coalition. 
(4) Coalition and Iraqi forces, Iraqi civilians, 
foreign diplomats, and individuals from around the 
world who have come to the aid of the Iraqi people 
are under attack from terrorists who deliberately at-
tack children, worshippers, and law enforcement fig-
ures, attack civilians at random, sabotage essential 
services, and otherwise attempt to terrorize the Iraqi 
people, the American people, and the citizens of 
other coalition countries. 
(5) The terrorists will be emboldened to ‘‘wait 
out’’ the United States if a target date for with-
drawal is established and announced, especially if 
the terrorists perceive such withdrawal date has 
been established and announced as a result of their 
terrorist campaign against the coalition and the 
Iraqi people. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.— It is the sense of Con-
gress that—
(1) given the nature of the adversary the 
United States and its coalition partners face in Iraq 
and the difficult conditions under which the United 
States Armed Forces, coalition forces, and Iraqi 
forces find themselves, calls for an early withdrawal
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of United States and coalition forces are counter-
productive to security aims of the United States and 
the hopes of the Iraqi people; and 
(2) such calls for an early withdrawal embolden 
the terrorists and undermine the morale of the 
United States Armed Forces, coalition forces, and 
Iraqi forces, and put their security at risk. 
(c) POLICY.—It shall be the policy of the United 
States—
(1) to pursue a transfer of responsibility for 
Iraqi security to Iraqi forces; and 
(2) not to withdraw prematurely the United 
States Armed Forces from Iraq, but to do so only 
when it is clear that United States national security 
and foreign policy goals relating to a free and stable 
Iraq have been or are about to be achieved. 
Subtitle B—Sense of Congress 
Provisions 
SEC. 1421. KOREAN FULBRIGHT PROGRAMS. 
It is the sense of Congress that Fulbright program 
activities for the Republic of Korea (commonly referred 
to as ‘‘South Korea’’) should—
(1) include participation by students from 
throughout South Korea, including proportional rep-
resentation from areas outside of Seoul;
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(2) attempt to include Korean students from a 
broad range of educational institutions, including 
schools other than elite universities; 
(3) broaden the Korean student emphasis be-
yond degree-seeking graduate students to include op-
portunities for one-year nondegree study at United 
States colleges and universities by pre-doctoral Ko-
rean students; and 
(4) include a significant number of Korean stu-
dents planning to work or practice in areas other 
than advanced research and university teaching, 
such as in government service, media, law, and busi-
ness. 
SEC. 1422. UNITED STATES RELATIONS WITH TAIWAN. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) it is in the national interests of the United 
States to communicate directly with democratically 
elected and appointed officials of Taiwan, including 
the President of Taiwan, the Vice-President of Tai-
wan, the Foreign Minister of Taiwan, and the De-
fense Minister of Taiwan; 
(2) the Department of State should, in accord-
ance with Public Law 103–416, admit such high 
level officials of Taiwan to the United States to dis-
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cuss issues of mutual concern with United States of-
ficials; and 
(3) the Department of State should, in coopera-
tion with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, 
facilitate high level meetings between such high level 
officials of Taiwan and their counterparts in the 
United States. 
SEC. 1423. NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND A. Q. KHAN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, former director of 
the A.Q. Khan Research Laboratory in Pakistan and 
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on the Stra-
tegic Programme, had the status of a federal min-
ister and established and operated an illegal inter-
national network which sold nuclear weapons and re-
lated technologies to a variety of countries. 
(2) China provided Dr. Khan with nuclear 
weapons designs, and the illegal international nu-
clear proliferation network established by Dr. Khan 
may have provided other countries with these de-
signs. 
(3) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan assisted Iran 
with its nuclear program by supplying Iran with
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uranium-enrichment technology, including centrifuge 
equipment and designs. 
(4) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan assisted North 
Korea with its nuclear weapons program by pro-
viding centrifuge technology, including designs and 
complete centrifuges. 
(5) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan assisted Libya 
with its nuclear program by providing blueprints of 
centrifuge parts and thousands of assembled cen-
trifuge parts. 
(6) There is concern that the illegal inter-
national nuclear proliferation network created by Dr. 
Khan may be still in existence and its work still on-
going. 
(7) Defense cooperation and technology transfer 
between China and Pakistan have been recently 
strengthened, including the codevelopment and man-
ufacturing of a minimum of 400 J–17 ‘‘Thunder’’ 
fighter aircraft, with a minimum of 250 going to 
China. This and other Chinese-Pakistani technology 
sharing provides an expanded basis for further Paki-
stani proliferation of advanced military technology.
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(8) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan is a threat to 
United States national security. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the United States—
(1) should continue efforts to—
(A) dismantle the illegal international nu-
clear proliferation network created by Dr. 
Abdul Qadeer Khan; and 
(B) counter, through diplomacy and nego-
tiation, the proliferation of weapons of mass de-
struction from Pakistan to other countries; 
(2) should request and Pakistan should grant 
access to interview Dr. Khan and his top associates 
to determine in greater detail what technology his 
network provided or received from Iran, North 
Korea, Libya, and China; and 
(3) should take the steps necessary to ensure 
that Pakistan has verifiably halted any cooperation 
with any country in the development of nuclear or 
missile technology, material, or equipment, or any 
other technology, material, or equipment that is use-
ful for the development of weapons of mass destruc-
tion, including exports of such technology, material, 
or equipment.
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SEC. 1424. PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Since 1993, the United States has provided 
more than $1,400,000,000 to assist the Palestinian 
people, including to assist with the process of 
strengthening the Palestinian education system. 
(2) Since 1950, the United States has provided 
more than $3,200,000,000 in assistance to United 
Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which 
operates schools in camps housing Palestinians. 
(3) The Palestinian Authority has undertaken a 
reform of its textbooks, a process which will be com-
pleted in 2006. 
(4) These new textbooks, while an improvement 
over past texts, fail in many respects to foster atti-
tudes amongst the Palestinian people conducive to 
peace with Israel, including references to the infa-
mous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, failure to ac-
knowledge the State of Israel, and failure to discuss 
Jews in sections dealing with religious tolerance. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Secretary of State should express in the 
strongest possible terms United States opposition to the 
inclusion in Palestinian textbooks of materials which fos-
ter anti-Semitism and rejection of peace with Israel, and 
to express the unwillingness of the United States to con-
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tinue to support educational programs of the Palestinian 
Authority, whether directly or indirectly, should the Pales-
tinian Authority continue to include material which does 
not foster tolerance and peace. 
SEC. 1425. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AFFIRMING THE 
HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF PERSONS 
WITH DISABILITIES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) There are more than 600,000,000 people 
who have a disability and more than two-thirds of all 
persons with disabilities live in developing countries. 
(2) Only two percent of children with disabil-
ities in developing countries receive any education or 
rehabilitation. 
(3) A substantial shift has occurred globally 
from an approach of charity toward persons with 
disabilities to the recognition of the inherent uni-
versal human rights of persons with disabilities. 
(4) A clearly defined international standard ad-
dressing the rights of persons with disabilities would 
assist developing countries in the creation and imple-
mentation of national laws protecting those rights. 
(5) To better protect and promote the rights of 
persons with disabilities and to establish inter-
national norms, the United Nations General Assem-
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bly adopted Resolution 56/168 (December 19, 2001) 
which established an ad hoc committee to consider 
proposals for a comprehensive and integral inter-
national convention that affirms the human rights 
and dignity of persons with disabilities. 
(6) With the strong commitment and leadership 
of the United States and the vast domestic experi-
ence of the United States in the advancement of dis-
ability rights, the world community can benefit from 
United States participation in the drafting of an 
international convention that affirms the human 
rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that—
(1) the United States should play a leading role 
in the drafting of an international convention that 
affirms the human rights and dignity of persons 
with disabilities and which is consistent with the 
Constitution of the United States, the Americans 
with Disabilities Act of 1990, and other rights en-
joyed by United States citizens with disabilities; 
(2) for this purpose, the President should au-
thorize the Secretary of State to send to the Sixth 
Session of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on 
a Comprehensive and Integral International Conven-
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tion on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights 
and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities to be held 
in August 2005 and to subsequent sessions of the 
Ad Hoc Committee a United States delegation which 
includes individuals with disabilities who are recog-
nized leaders in the United States disability rights 
movement; and 
(3) the United States delegation referred to in 
paragraph (2) should seek the input and advice of 
the Department of State’s Advisory Committee on 
Persons with Disabilities with respect to matters 
considered at the Sixth Session of the United Na-
tions Ad Hoc Committee and subsequent sessions. 
SEC. 1426. FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS FOR EAST ASIA AND 
THE PACIFIC. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) From 1949–2003, the Department of State 
awarded 13,176 Fulbright Scholarships to students 
from East Asia and the Pacific, but only 31 went to 
Pacific Island students. 
(2) In 2003–2004, the Department of State 
awarded 315 scholarships to students from East 
Asia and the Pacific, but none were awarded to Pa-
cific Island students.
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(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Department of State should conduct a re-
view and submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a report regarding the marginalization of Pacific Is-
lands students in the awarding of Fulbright Scholarships. 
SEC. 1427. BAKU-TBILISI-CEYHAN ENERGY PIPELINE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) It has been the long-standing policy of the 
United States to support the independence, security, 
and economic development of the newly independent 
states of the Caspian Sea region. 
(2) The growth and stability of the newly inde-
pendent states of the Caspian Sea region will be 
greatly enhanced by the development of their exten-
sive oil and natural gas resources and the export of 
these resources unhindered along an east-west en-
ergy transportation corridor. 
(3) The establishment of an east-west energy 
transportation corridor would enhance the energy se-
curity of the United States, Turkey, and other 
United States allies by ensuring an unhindered flow 
of energy from the Caspian Sea region to world mar-
kets. 
(4) The centerpiece of the proposed east-west 
energy transportation corridor is the Baku-Tbilisi-
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Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which was first endorsed by 
the relevant regional governments in 1998 and 
which will carry one million barrels of Caspian Sea 
oil per day from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Ceyhan, Tur-
key, via a route that passes through Tbilisi, Georgia. 
(5) The BTC pipeline was inaugurated on May 
25, 2005, and Caspian Sea oil exports from the port 
of Ceyhan, Turkey, will begin later this year. 
(6) The BTC pipeline project has received 
strong bipartisan support during the administrations 
of both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that—
(1) the governments and peoples of Turkey and 
the newly independent states of the Caspian Sea re-
gion should be congratulated for the successful com-
pletion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline; 
(2) the policy of the United States to support 
the independence, security, and economic develop-
ment of the newly independent states of the Caspian 
Sea region should be reaffirmed; and 
(3) projects should be encouraged that would 
further develop the east-west energy transportation 
corridor between the newly independent states of the 
Caspian Sea region and Europe and that advance
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the strategic goals of the United States, especially 
the promotion of appropriate multiple routes for the 
transportation to world markets of oil and gas from 
the Caspian Sea region. 
SEC. 1428. LEGISLATION REQUIRING THE FAIR, COM-
PREHENSIVE, 
AND 
NONDISCRIMINATORY 
RESTITUTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY CON-
FISCATED IN POLAND. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress find the following: 
(1) The protection of and respect for property 
rights is a basic tenet for all democratic govern-
ments that operate according to the rule of law. 
(2) Private properties were seized and con-
fiscated by the Nazis in occupied Poland or by the 
Communist Polish government after World War II. 
(3) Some post-Communist countries in Europe 
have taken steps toward compensating individuals 
whose property was seized and confiscated by the 
Nazis during World War II and by Communist gov-
ernments after World War II. 
(4) Poland has continuously failed to enact leg-
islation that requires realistically achievable restitu-
tion or compensation for those individuals who had 
their private property seized and confiscated.
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(5) 
Although 
President 
Aleksander 
Kwasniewski of Poland later exercised his veto 
power, in March 2001 the Polish Parliament passed 
a bill that would have provided compensation for 
seized and confiscated property, but only to individ-
uals who were registered as Polish citizens as of De-
cember 31, 1999, thereby excluding all those individ-
uals who emigrated from Poland during and after 
World War II. 
(6) President Kwasniewski met in 2002 with 
congressional leaders of the United States Helsinki 
Commission and stated that he intended to draft a 
new law requiring the restitution of previously seized 
and confiscated private property that would not dis-
criminate based on the residency or citizenship of an 
individual, and which would be ready to take effect 
by the beginning of 2003. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that—
(1) Poland should develop a final and complete 
settlement for those individuals who had their pri-
vate property seized and confiscated by the Nazis 
during World War II or by the Communist Polish 
government after the war;