I 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3725
To prohibit United States military assistance for Egypt and to express the 
sense of Congress that the amount of military assistance that would 
have been provided for Egypt for a fiscal year should be provided in 
the form of economic support fund assistance. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 21, 2004
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations 
A BILL 
To prohibit United States military assistance for Egypt and 
to express the sense of Congress that the amount of 
military assistance that would have been provided for 
Egypt for a fiscal year should be provided in the form 
of economic support fund assistance.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This 
Act 
may 
be 
cited 
as 
the 
‘‘Egyptian 
Counterterrorism and Political Reform Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following:
(1) Egypt is not a reliable ally in the war on 
terrorism. 
(2) The Middle East Media Research Institute 
(MEMRI) reports that only two weeks before the 
September 11, 2001, attacks, the Egyptian Govern-
ment daily newspaper Al-Akhbar published a column 
that stated: ‘‘The Statue of Liberty, in New York 
Harbor, must be destroyed because of following the 
idiotic American policy that goes from disgrace to 
disgrace in the swamp of bias and blind fanati-
cism.’’. 
(3) According to the Middle East Media Re-
search Institute, the Egyptian Government weekly 
newspaper Al-Ahram Al-Arabi published on Sep-
tember 22, 2001, an op-ed article that stated: ‘‘For 
many long years, America made many peoples in the 
world cry. It was always [America] that carried out 
the acts; now, acts are being carried out [against] it. 
A cook who concocts poison must one day also taste 
that poison!’’. 
(4) In the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt 
and Israel, signed after the Camp David Accords, 
each party agreed ‘‘to ensure that acts or threats of 
belligerency, hostility or violence do not originate 
from and are not committed from within its territory
. . . against the population, citizens, or property of 
the other party.’’. 
(5) The Israeli Defense Forces have repeatedly 
found arms smuggling tunnels between Egypt and 
the Gaza Strip. More than 40 tunnels were discov-
ered in 2003. Some of these tunnels originate in 
Egyptian army and police outposts. 
(6) Egyptian President Mubarak publicly stated 
that Hezbollah had a ‘‘right’’ to attack Israelis in 
Southern Lebanon. 
(7) The Middle East Media Research Institute 
reports that Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, recently ap-
pointed by the Egyptian Government to be the Mufti 
of Egypt, told a conference at the University of 
Cairo in March 2003 that ‘‘martyrdom operations, 
in which the Palestinians blow up targets of the 
Israeli occupation, are actions that are 100 percent 
permitted according to Islamic religious law, and it 
is forbidden to facilitate attack of a Muslim country 
. . . Any attempt to invade Iraq is forbidden by Is-
lamic religious law and by morality, and Islam for-
bids it, and even commands its believers to resist at-
tempts at invasion and occupation.’’. 
(8) According to the Middle East Media Re-
search Institute, on August 17, 2001, the Egyptian
Government daily newspaper Al-Akhbar contained 
an editorial that stated: ‘‘All that we have left to say 
to the sons of Palestine . . . Kill your enemies wher-
ever you may find them. This is a life and death 
conflict between you and them and it will not be 
over through calming attempts. The only thing that 
will force your enemy to surrender and to accept 
your demands is force, whatever the sacrifices may 
be.’’. 
(9) On May 9, 2003, President Bush stated: 
‘‘Over time, the expansion of liberty throughout the 
world is the best guarantee of security throughout 
the world. Freedom is the way to peace. . . . We’re 
determined to help build a Middle East that grows 
in hope, instead of resentment. Because of the ideals 
and resolve of this Nation, you and I will not live 
in an age of terror. We will live in an age of lib-
erty.’’. 
(10) In November 2003 President Bush stated: 
‘‘The great and proud nation Egypt . . . should show 
the way toward democracy in the Middle East.’’. 
(11) The United States Government’s Middle 
East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) ‘‘champions an 
expanded public space where democratic voices can