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are accused of involvement in the bombing of Pan Am
flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, in which
269 individuals, including many American citizens, lost
their lives, and the United Nations Security Council has
voted to impose international sanctions against Libya for
its failure to hand over for trial these accused individuals;
Libya has attempted to subvert and destabilize Arab and
African countries by supporting coups, funding and train-
ing opposition forces and guerrilla groups, and Libya has,
at one time or another, invaded, occupied, or claimed ter-
ritory in the countries of Niger, Chad, Tunisia, and Alge-
ria; Libya has developed the capability to produce chemi-
cal weapons, maintains stocks of chemical weapons, and
is seeking ballistic missiles capable of delivering such
weapons; Libya has been identified as a state supporter
of terrorism, the Abu Nidal terrorist organization main-
tains a presence in Libya, terrorist organizations have re-
peatedly been invited to Libya, and the Libyan Leader
Muammar Qadhafi praised as ‘‘heroic’’ the October 1994
suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv bus that killed and injured
dozens of innocent people;
Whereas Louis Farrakhan visited Libya and met with Leader
Qadhafi, and, according to reports from the Libyan news
agency JANA, wrote in the visitors’ book at a monument
to perpetuate anti-American sentiment in connection with
the United States bombing of Libya in 1986: ‘‘I implore
God to 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 50 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
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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, includ-
ing Hizbollah, which has been involved in the deaths of
American citizens in Lebanon and elsewhere;
Whereas Mr. Farrakhan was a guest of honor at a rally in
Tehran celebrating the 17th anniversary of the Islamic
Revolution in Iran 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 Mos-
lems;’’ according to Agence France Presse, he ‘‘paid trib-
ute . . . to Iran on the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic
revolution as a crowd of tens of thousands chanted
‘Death to America’ ’’; 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-
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
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many of its own citizens, in particular against its Kurd-
ish population and its Shi’a Arab population; and Iraq
has refused 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 the Iraqi government has used
the suffering of its own people to generate international
sympathy; and, in the midst of this humanitarian crisis,
the President Saddam Hussein of Iraq has squandered
national resources for the building of additional luxury
palaces for himself and other government leaders;
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 Muammar Qadhafi pledged to Mr.
Farrakhan to spend $1,000,000,000 on Muslim causes in
the United States, Mr. Farrakhan and Mr. Qadhafi
agreed to work together to influence elections in the
United States, and Mr. Qadhafi said ‘‘Today we have
found a gap in this fortress [meaning the United States]
and a way to confront it from the inside’’: Now, there-
fore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) condemns the visit of Louis Farrakhan to
Libya, Iran, and Iraq;
(2) 
condemns 
statements 
made 
by 
Mr.
Farrakhan during those visits which are derogatory
of the foreign policy of the United States and which
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support the governments of these countries, all of
which are on the list of countries which support ter-
rorism; 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 in statements made by
him during these visits or in actions which result
from agreements or understandings reached during
these visits, and, if so, actively to prosecute any such
violations of United States law.
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