[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 140 Introduced in House (IH)]
112th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 140
Expressing the disappointment and concern of the Congress on the
failure of the United States to properly investigate the Pan Am 103
bombing and the failure of Libya to grant permission for United States
Pan Am 103 criminal investigators to investigate and gather evidence in
Libya regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 21, 2012
Ms. Buerkle submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the disappointment and concern of the Congress on the
failure of the United States to properly investigate the Pan Am 103
bombing and the failure of Libya to grant permission for United States
Pan Am 103 criminal investigators to investigate and gather evidence in
Libya regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing.
Whereas since 1989, hundreds of Pan Am 103 victims' family members have pursued
civil and criminal justice against those responsible for the murder of
their loved ones in what remains the second worst terrorist attack on
Americans in history;
Whereas there has been no known progress or active criminal investigation since
the 1991 indictments of two Libyan intelligence agents and conviction of
one over 11 years ago, notwithstanding formal written promises to the
U.N. in 2003 to fully cooperate with U.S. criminal investigations, and
notwithstanding renewed promises by the Libyan Transitional Council in
2011;
Whereas Libya has recently granted permission to the United Kingdom for
investigation within Libya by United Kingdom criminal investigators of a
London police woman's murder outside the Libyan embassy;
Whereas Libya has promised repeatedly (in 2003, 2011, and 2012) to cooperate
with the United States in the Pan Am 103 criminal investigation;
Whereas the United States has provided essential support in protecting those now
in the Libyan government and the Libyan people from being killed en
masse by Qaddafi forces;
Whereas the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) have been claiming for over 20 years that this is ``the largest
murder investigation in U.S. history'' but with no visible results since
2000;
Whereas Senussi, former head of Qaddafi's infamous External Security
Organization that sponsored and carried out Qaddafi regime terrorism
against the U.S. and other Western nationals and assassinations of
exiled Qaddafi opponents, has now been sent back to Libya by Mauritania;
and
Whereas there is still no indication that the United States has sought to use
its many tools of witness protection, terrorist reward programs,
interrogation of Senussi in Mauritania or Musa Kusa in Qattar, and has
not responded to the United Kingdom critics who claim the evidence
convicting Megrahi was flawed and/or fabricated by the United States DOJ
and FBI: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That the Congress--
(1) requests that the FBI and the Department of Justice
report to Congress on the status of the criminal investigation
into the Pan Am 103 bombing, including by explaining--
(A) why since 2000 it has apparently failed to
gather any evidence or interview witnesses (including
the former Justice Minister Mustapha M. A. Jalil and
now chairman of the Libyan transitional council who has
publicly claimed to have proof of Qaddafi and others
direct involvement), regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing;
(B) why the Office of Foreign Assets Control has
removed all travel and financial sanctions on Musa
Kusa, former Qaddafi intelligence chief, stated by
former U.S. CIA Director George Tenet to be responsible
for American bloodshed;
(C) why the Department of Justice and the
Department of State did not seek extradition from
Mauritania of Sinussi, former chief of the Libyan
External Security Organization who was named in the
United States indictments and convicted by France of
the 1989 UTA bombing that murdered 170 people,
including six United States residents and Bonnie Pew,
the wife of the United States Ambassador to Chad;
(D) why the Department of Justice apparently never
sought nor obtained access to Megrahi, the only person
convicted of the mass murder who was imprisoned in the
United Kingdom for 9 years, prior to his death in
Tripoli;
(E) why, in over 20 years of what it often claimed
was the biggest murder investigation in its history,
the FBI has not named any of the terrorists, except two
lower ranking Libyan intelligence agents, who conspired
to murder 270 innocents, including 189 Americans, in
the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie
Scotland, in route to New York City and Detroit on
December 21, 1988; and
(F) what resources the Department of Justice has
devoted to the Pan Am 103 bombing criminal
investigation, including how many persons were assigned
to the investigation, the person hours by year and
costs of this investigation incurred by the United
States Government; and
(2) requests that Libya grant the United States permission
to investigate Libya regarding the Pan Am 103 bombing.
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