(2) The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks 
were planned, financed, and executed by al Qaeda, 
a terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden. 
(3) Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan 
throughout the period leading up to the attacks, and 
the three previous attacks against United States tar-
gets, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 
1998 East Africa bombings, and the 2000 attack on 
the USS Cole, were planned by al Qaeda central. 
(4) From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban govern-
ment of Afghanistan knowingly harbored al Qaeda, 
and was complicit in its plots against the United 
States, and that al Qaeda, in turn, supported the 
Taliban, including sponsoring and training the elite 
Arab 55th Brigade of the Taliban Army. 
(5) Following the September 11, 2001, attacks 
Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Mili-
tary Force (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 
note) to provide the President with requisite author-
ization to use ‘‘force against those nations, organiza-
tions, or persons he determines planned, authorized, 
committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that oc-
curred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such or-
ganizations or persons, in order to prevent any fu-
ture acts of international terrorism against the 
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United States by such nations, organizations or per-
sons’’. 
(6) Following passage of Public Law 107–40, 
and consistent with its purpose, the United States 
invaded Afghanistan, resulting in the toppling of the 
Taliban government and the routing of al Qaeda 
forces in the country. 
(7) Osama bin Laden and other senior al Qaeda 
leaders left Afghanistan in the wake of the United 
States invasion, with many fleeing to neighboring 
Pakistan. 
(8) Many of al Qaeda’s senior leaders, including 
Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu 
Yahya al-Libi, and Abu Hamza Rabia have either 
been killed or captured by United States forces in 
the years since the 2001 terrorist attacks. 
(9) Intelligence experts now describe al Qaeda’s 
core as largely decimated, and Director of National 
Intelligence James Clapper told Congress in early 
2013, that al Qaeda’s core had been so ‘‘degraded’’ 
that it is ‘‘probably unable to carry out complex, 
large-scale attacks in the West’’. 
(10) Congress never intended and did not au-
thorize a perpetual war. 
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(11) With the withdrawal of United States com-
bat troops from Afghanistan and the transition to 
Afghan national security forces at the end of 2014, 
Public Law 107–40, which was focused on the Sep-
tember 11th attacks and those directly responsible, 
will have largely served its purpose. 
(12) The homeland and the American people 
face new threats from individuals, entities, and orga-
nizations that may affiliate with al Qaeda, or share 
its ideology and its determination to attack Ameri-
cans, but which may not be connected to the Sep-
tember 11, 2001, attacks or those who carried them 
out to a degree sufficient to be covered by Public 
Law 107–40. 
(13) Even after the expiration of Public Law 
107–40, there is likely to remain the need to defend 
against specific networks of violent extremists, in-
cluding al Qaeda and its affiliates, that threaten the 
United States, and the Congress urges the President 
to work with the legislative branch to secure what-
ever new authorities may be required to meet the 
threat and comply with the Constitution, the War 
Powers Resolution, and the law of war. 
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SEC. 3. REPEAL OF AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY 
FORCE. 
Effective on December 31, 2014, the Authorization 
for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 
1541 note) is hereby repealed. 
Æ 
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