September 7, 2000 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7349 many occasions to talk about the most they do not want to cover prescription nese regime has shut down a U.N. hu- important quality-of-life issue for sen- drugs? And they do not intend to cover manitarian relief Operation Lifeline iors in my State and around the coun- prescription drugs, saying instead it is Sudan that feeds millions of people in try, and that is the issue of prescrip- a hollow promise to go that direction. southern Sudan, by repeatedly bomb- tion drugs and the high costs that they I would urge, Mr. Speaker, that this ing and attacking and killing workers are having to pay. Not only do we know House come together and recognize and and planes. that seniors who have no insurance are celebrate Medicare, which is a 35-year Chinese troops are now supposedly paying twice as much as others when success story for our country, 35 years present in Sudan, most likely guarding they go to the drug store and get their of health care for seniors, for the dis- the precious oil fields that are now medications, but we have a health care abled in this country, that only does generating hard cash for the govern- system that has been in place now for not work now because we do not cover ment. 35 years, a very successful health care the new way that health care has pro- Now, Mr. Speaker, every Member system called Medicare that simply vided today, which is simply prescrip- should know that we have just learned needs to be modernized to cover pre- tion drugs. If we simply modernize that , a terrorist who scription drugs so that our seniors can Medicare, we will be able to continue killed American citizens and bombed continue to get the promise of health to keep the promise. two of our embassies, one of the most care that we made to them 35 years It seems to me in these great eco- wanted international terrorists, is re- ago. nomic times, we have two important portedly a major investor in Gum Ara- I have been asking people in my dis- challenges: we need to pay our bills and bic Company Limited. This company is trict and around the State of Michigan we need to keep our promises. The a Khartoum-based firm that has a vir- to write letters that I will share on the promise of Medicare is something that tual monopoly over this issue. The new floor of the House of Representatives. our seniors are counting on. We need to book out called by Once again this evening, I wish to do pass a comprehensive, voluntary pre- Simon Reeve says the following: that, to read a letter from Annabelle scription drug plan now. Perhaps most crucially, bin Laden cannily Lewis from Hillsdale, Michigan, who f invested in Gum Arabic Company Limited, a writes about her own struggles to pay Khartoum-based firm which has a virtual for her prescriptions. CALLING ON CONGRESS TO monopoly over most of Sudan’s exports of She says: STRIKE LANGUAGE IN TRADE gum arabic, which in turn comprises about I stopped taking the Provachol 20 milli- BILL IN REGARD TO SUDAN 80 percent of the world’s supply. Gum arabic grams for high cholesterol in January 1999, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a comes from the sap of the Sudanese acacia tree, a colorless, tasteless gum that makes having previously cut pills in half. In Decem- previous order of the House, the gen- ber 1999, a year later, my cholesterol was 339. newspaper ink stick to printing presses, tleman from Virginia (Mr. WOLF) is Having received some free samples, my cho- keeps ingredients in drinks from settling at lesterol came down to 198. Presently this recognized for 5 minutes. the bottom of a can, and forms a film around medication is $122.99 per month, not includ- Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I am ap- sweets and medical pills, keeping them fresh. ing $30.58 for Estrogen replacement. Medi- palled and outraged that language was It is a crucial ingredient in dozens of western care part B deductible this month has re- included in a recent bill that unani- products. duced my Social Security to $505. This cov- mously passed the House that will lift Then he goes on to say that bin ers house expenses with little left over. Hav- the embargo on gum arabic from Laden is believed to have secured an ef- ing this medication available certainly Sudan. fective monopoly over the entire Suda- would be less expensive than a nursing home Language was included in H.R. 4868, nese output that this Congress has should I have a stroke. I am able to continue working as a nurse but I find it very difficult the Miscellaneous Trade and Correc- voted to help. due to my depressed state. I hope this infor- tions Act of 2000, which does not even Even now the State Department in mation is useful and you will be blessed in mention the word or country of Sudan Washington and analysts at the CIA re- your efforts. or gum arabic. Yet the passing of this main unsure whether bin Laden is still Sincerely, thank you, Annabelle Lewis. language is a significant foreign policy profiting from his investment. Thirty Under the plan that I am supporting issue for the U.S. The language was percent of the shares in Gum Arabic for Medicare coverage, a voluntary, op- known about by very few Members of Company Limited are held by the Su- tional, comprehensive Medicare benefit the House. This is very cryptic lan- danese government, who tried to assas- we would add to Medicare, Annabelle guage that was used to describe a sinate Mubarak who did not support Lewis would be saving $438, important major foreign policy issue for the U.S., American troops in Desert Storm and dollars, the difference between eating whether to lift significant sanctions Desert Shield. breakfast, lunch or dinner, paying the against one of the worst regimes in the Then he goes on to say and end that utility bill, having the quality of life world. it is still possible that every time that I am sure as a nurse she has The regime in Khartoum harbors someone buys an American soft drink, worked hard all these years to acquire gobs of terrorists. Abu Nidal, Hamas, they are helping fill Osama bin Laden’s and now finds herself having to strug- and all of the terrorists who are doing coffers, his coffers whereby he can go gle with issues of cholesterol, whether so much to disrupt the Middle East out and kill American men and women or not she will be healthy or have a have training camps in Sudan. Vir- and children. I have a description of stroke. tually every major terrorist group in Osama bin Laden as described by the Seniors in our country deserve bet- the world passes through Khartoum, Anti-Defamation League which I will ter. I know right now with all the con- many under the tutelage and sponsor- include for the RECORD. fusion and all the numbers and all the ship of the government of Sudan. The Gum arabic is an important Sudanese private plans and proposals that are government of Sudan was implicated primary export. The administration out there, the real bottom line that all and behind the assassination attempt has prohibited and put it on a list of of this is about is the fact that the pre- on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. sanctions, a comprehensive list of sanc- scription drug companies do not want The government of Sudan condones tions against the government of Sudan. the 39 million seniors of this country slavery. Slavery exists in the 21st cen- The executive order was issued as a di- to be organized under Medicare and tury. Yet the Congress voted to help a rect consequence of the Sudanese re- have the clout to get a reduced price, country that has slavery. Over 2 mil- gime’s sponsorship of international ter- just like anybody else in any other in- lion people have died because of the rorism, its effort to destabilize neigh- surance plan. Coming together they war conducted and generated by the boring countries, and its abysmal would have the combined clout to get a northern-led government. human rights record, including the de- group discount of great magnitude. The government of Sudan indiscrimi- nial of religious freedom. That is the real fight about Medicare. nately and repeatedly bombs and kills Mr. Speaker, why would the Con- That is the fight we are in right now. innocent civilians. They are killing gress, why would the House pass a bill Do we just simply modernize Medicare, hundreds of Catholics in Bishop Max without telling anyone what was in the or do we set up some complicated sys- Gassis’ diocese in the Nuba Mountains. bill and every Member that voted for tem with insurance companies that say Just over the past few weeks, the Suda- that bill did this and did not know to

VerDate 11-MAY-2000 02:33 Sep 08, 2000 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07SE7.122 pfrm02 PsN: H07PT1 H7350 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE September 7, 2000 lift the sanctions on Sudan also in the ing to The News, an , THE NEW JACKALS: RAMZI YOUSEF, OSAMA BIN gum arabic area that is controlled per- daily. (The International Policy Institute for LADEN AND THE FUTURE OF haps by Osama bin Laden, who has Counter-Terrorism web site, www.ict.org.il) A PORTRAYAL OF THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF bombed two American embassies, who March 1998—Bin Laden faxes messages to RAMZI YOUSEF AHMED, THE TERRORIST WHO we have watches out for with regard to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and U.S. con- BOMBED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER the Canadian border over New Year’s sulates in , Lahore, and Karachi IN 1998 Eve and many other times? Why would threatening to attack U.S. facilities and citi- (By Simon Reeve) the Congress do that? I am concerned zens. (The International Policy Institute for On 26 February 1993 a massive bomb dev- that this money will help Osama bin Counter-Terrorism web site, www.ict.org.il) astated New York’s World Trade Center, cre- ating more hospital casualties than any February 1998—Bin Laden uses a fatwa, re- Laden continue his terrorism. event in American history since the Civil ligious decree, to call for the liberation of I call on the Congress to strike this War. Ramzi Yousef, the young British-edu- Muslim holy places in Saudi Arabia and provision and do as the administration cated terrorist who masterminded the at- requested, whereby they can have the Israel, as well as the death of Americans and tack, had been seeking to topple the twin opportunity to deal with this issue. their allies. The decree says, ‘‘These crimes towers and cause tens of thousands of fatali- Mr. Speaker, I submit the following and sins committed by the Americans are a ties. clear declaration of war on God, his mes- material on Osama bin Laden. An intensive FBI investigation into the senger and .’’ (The Washington Post, crime quickly developed into a man-hunt OSAMA BIN LADEN 2/25/98) that took top FBI agents across the globe. Osama Bin Laden is a 41 year-old ‘‘busi- May 1997—During an interview with CNN, But even with the FBI on his trail, Yousef nessman’’ and son of one of Saudi Arabia’s continued with his campaign of terror. He wealthiest families, who has been linked to a Bin Laden reaffirms his call for a holy war against Americans. ‘‘We have focused our bombed an aeroplane and an Iranian shrine. number of Islamic extremist groups and indi- He tried to kill , the former viduals with vehement anti-American and declaration of jihad on the U.S. soldiers in- side Arabia . . . The U.S. government has Pakistani Prime Minister, and planned to as- anti-Israel ideologies. He is a mysterious fig- sassinate the Pope, President Clinton and si- committed acts that are extremely unjust, ure whose exact involvement with terrorists multaneously destroy 11 airliners over the hideous and criminal through its support of and terrorist incidents remains elusive. Yet Pacific Ocean using tiny undetectable the Israeli occupation of Palestine.’’ (Reu- his name has surrounded many of the world’s bombs. He also plotted an attack on the CIA ters, 5/11/97) most deadly terrorist operations and he is headquarters with a plan loaded with chem- named by the United States State Depart- February 1997—Bin Laden threatens holy ical weapons. His pursuers dubbed Yousef ment as having financial and operational war against the U.S. in an interview on the ‘‘an evil genius’’. connections with terrorism. Most recently British documentary program, Dispatches. During their huge investigation FBI agents Bin Laden formed the ‘‘International Islamic ‘‘This war will not only be between the peo- discovered that Yousef was funded and sent Front for Jihad against America and Israel.’’ ple of the two sacred mosques and the Amer- on some of his attacks by Osama bin Laden, In 1994 when Bin Laden returned to Saudi icans, but it will be between the Islamic a mysterious Saudi millionaire. By the mid- Arabia after having spent the two previous 1990’s they realized bin Laden had become years in Khartoum, Sudan allegedly financ- world and the Americans and their allies be- cause this war is a new crusade led by Amer- the most influential sponsor of terrorism in ing such militant Islamic causes as terrorist the world, and agents now conclude that training camps, he was stripped of his citi- ica against the Islamic nations.’’ (Reuters, 2/ 20/97) since the early 1990s a small group of terror- zenship by Saudi authorities who cited his ists supported by bin Laden have dominated opposition to the Saudi King and leadership November 1996—Bin Laden issues an ulti- international terrorism. (who enjoy warm relations with the U.S. and matum to the U.S. and Western countries These ‘‘Afghan Arabs’’ helped defeat the the western world). In 1996 it was reported with troops stationed in Arab countries and Soviets in Afghanistan before killing thou- that Bin Laden had relocated to Afghani- declares a holy war against the ‘‘enemy.’’ sands of people in campaigns against govern- stan, where he had financed and organized Had we wanted to carry out small operations ments in the West, Africa, the Middle East training camps for young Muslim extremists after our threat statement, we would have and Asia. When bin Laden’s followers at- during the Afghan War of the 1980’s. been able to . . . We thought that the two tacked American embassies in Kenya and Bin Laden has been thought to finance, in- bombings in Riyadh and Dhahran would be Tanzania on 7 August 1998, killing 224 people, spire or directly organize various terrorist enough (sic.) a signal to the wise U.S. deci- the U.S. finally launched cruise missile attacks. In one way or another his name has sion-makers to avoid the real confrontation strikes in an attempt to destroy his secret been linked to the killings of Western tour- with the Islamic nation, but it seems they organization. ists by militant Islamic groups in Egypt, did not understand it.’’ (The Washington Drawing on unpublished reports, interroga- bombings in France by Islamic extremist Al- Times, 11/28/96) tion files, interviews with senior FBI agents gerians, the maintenance of a safe-house in who hunted Yousef, intelligence sources and Pakistan for Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the con- November 1996—Bin Laden warns U.S. government figures including Benazir victed mastermind of the 1993 World Trade forces in Saudi Arabia to expect more ‘‘effec- Bhutto, Simon Reeve gives a harrowing ac- Center bombing, and sheltering Sheikh Omar tive, qualitative’’ attacks and advises West- count of Yousef’s bombings, offers a reveal- Abd Al-Rahman (the Blind Sheikh), who was ern forces to speed their ‘‘departure’’ from ing insight into his background, and details also convicted in the World Trade Center the Middle East. (UPI, 11/27/96) the FBI’s man-hunt to catch him. bombing. He has also been linked to the 1992 August 1996—Bin Laden says to the Lon- Reeve explains how Yousef was one of bin bombings of a hotel in Yemen, which killed Laden’s first operatives and documents bin two Australians, but was supposedly tar- don-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper that the Saudis have a ‘‘legitimate right’’ to at- Laden’s life and emergence as the leader of a geted against American soldiers stationed potent terrorist organisation, giving fas- there; the 1995 detonation of a in tack the 5,000 American military personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia. ‘‘The presence of cinating insights into the man President Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; the 1995 truck bomb in Clinton has called ‘‘the pre-eminent orga- the American crusader armed forces in the Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. nizer and financier of international ter- countries of the Islamic Gulf is the greatest servicemen; and the 1995 assassination at- rorism in the world today’’. tempt on Egyptian President Hosni Muba- danger and the biggest harm that threatens Highly detailed and yet immensely read- rak. the world’s largest oil reserves . . . The able, The New Jackals sheds new light on Osama Bin Laden has made no secret of his infidels must be thrown out of the Arabian two of the world’s most notorious terrorists. anti-American, anti-Western and anti-Israel Peninsula.’’ (The Washington Post, 8/31/96) Reeve warns that Yousef and bin Laden are sentiments. In fact, he has been outspoken August 1996—In an interview with The just the first of a new breed of terrorist, men on these topics, issuing theological rulings Independent, a London daily, Bin Laden calls with no restrictions on mass killing. He also calling for Muslims to attack Americans and the June 1995 truck bomb in Dhahran, Saudi offers evidence that bin Laden’s organization threatening terrorism against related tar- Arabia ‘‘the beginning of war between Mus- may already have chemical and nuclear gets: lims and the United States.’’ (New York weapons and explains why the world could OSAMA BIN LADEN’S THREATS OF TERRORISM Daily News, 8/11/96) soon face attacks by terrorists with weapons August 1998—The ‘‘International Islamic of mass destruction. Front for Jihad against America and Israel,’’ July 1996—Bin Laden warns that the ter- Simon Reeve is a journalist and writer. He a group sponsored by Bin Laden, issues a rorist who bombed American soldiers in worked for The Sunday Times for five years warning in the London-based newspaper al- Saudi Arabia will also attack British and before leaving to finish co-writing The Mil- Hayat that, ‘‘strikes will continue from ev- French military personnel. He said ‘‘[the lennium Bomb, published in 1996. He has erywhere’’ against the United States. (CNN bomb in Dhahran] was the result of Amer- since contributed to books on corruption, or- Interactive, 8/20/98) ican behavior against Muslims, its support of ganized crime and terrorism, and has written May 1998—Bin Laden announces the forma- Jews in Palestine, and the massacre of Mus- investigative feature articles for publica- tion of an ‘‘International Islamic Front for lims in Palestine and Lebanon.’’ (New York tions ranging from Time magazine to Es- Jihad against America and Israel,’’ accord- Times, 7/11/96) quire. He lives in London.

VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:39 Sep 08, 2000 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07SE7.123 pfrm02 PsN: H07PT1 September 7, 2000 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7351 During research for The New Jackals keeps ingredients in drinks from settling at history of the United States of Amer- Reeve has eaten ice cream sorbet with the bottom of a can, and forms a film around ica. It is estimated that more than Benazir Bhutto, spent hours sitting in a sweets and medical pills, keeping them fresh. 6,000 people lost their lives in a matter stairwell on a London housing estate waiting It is a crucial ingredient in dozens of prod- of a few hours. Prior to the storm, Gal- for a former Lebanese smuggler, met Amer- ucts Western consumers use every day, and ican intelligence officials in a suburban within two years in arriving in Sudan, bin veston was a thriving port community burger bar and a Chinese restaurant, and Laden is believed to have secured an effec- of 37,000 people and was dubbed the been followed by agents from two different tive monopoly over the entire Sudanese out- Wall Street of the West. countries during meetings with a renegade put. Stories from the survivors of the spy. Even now the State Department in Wash- storm are filled with displays of cour- Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the ington and analysts at the CIA remain un- age and self-sacrifice in the face of ‘‘Afghan Arabs’’ have ‘‘dominated inter- sure whether bin Laden is still profiting grave danger. One of the most famous national terrorism as it relates to the United from his investment. Thirty per cent of the is the one about the nuns who ran the States and Europe [in the 1990s]. At the shares in Gum Arabic Company Limited are international level the only terrorist appa- held by the Sudanese government, who may orphanage. As the winds and storm ratus that the United States has had to deal or may not be siphoning profits into bin tides got higher, it became obvious with over the past several years has been Laden accounts. The other 70 per cent is held that the last building would collapse. Osama bin Laden and before that Ramzi by individual shareholders and banks, any or The nuns tied the children to them- Yousef.’’ Oliver ‘‘Buck’’ Revell, former Dep- all of whom may be acting as fronts for bin selves with clothesline, eight or nine uty Director of the FBI. Laden. It is still possible that every time kids to each nun, in a sad, brave effort ‘‘Ramzi Yousef is an evil genius.’’ Senior someone buys an American soft drink they to try to save them. Three little boys Pakistani intelligence officer. are helping to fill Osama bin Laden’s coffers. survived the night by camping in a ‘‘Yousef was a pretty unique person. He liked the bar scene, he liked women, he liked August 11, 2000. tree. All the rest died. Galveston never lost that resilient moving around. Yousef was very good. He Hon. FRANK R. WOLF, was well trained, very clever. He’ll certainly U.S. House of Representatives, spirit and went on to build a 17-foot be ranked right up there with the all-timers. Washington, DC. seawall that staved off other fierce Even to this day, he is a very shadowy figure DEAR CONGRESSMAN WOLF: Thank you for hurricanes. The city also pumped in that we really don’t know that much about, your recent letter expressing your concern millions of tons of sand from the Gulf even after all that’s been done and all that’s about Section 1439 of H.R. 4868. The humani- of Mexico in order to raise the level of been investigated on him.’’ Neil Herman, the tarian situation in Sudan is a tragic one, and the city and its buildings to a safer FBI Supervisory Special Agent who led the every effort should be made to bring an end height. New York Joint Terrorist Task Force during to the unnecessary suffering of the Sudanese This weekend, Galveston will be the hunt for Yousef. people. ‘‘Yes, I am a terrorist, and I’m proud of The Administration agrees with you that holding a ceremony commemorating it.’’ Ramzi Yousef. the sanctions on the government of Sudan’s the hurricane, honoring the memories ‘‘In the past, we were fighting terrorists exportation of gum arabic should not be lift- of those who died, launching education with an organisational structure and some ed. The government of Sudan has not made efforts, and celebrating the rebirth of attainable goal like land or the release of po- progress in rectifying the human rights Galveston after the storm. My resolu- litical prisoners. But Ramzi Yousef is the abuses for which those sanctions were im- tion extends those efforts to our Na- new breed, who are more difficult and haz- posed, and we should not consider perma- tion’s Capital and to all the people of ardous. They want nothing less than the nently lifting sanctions until satisfactory overthrow of the West, and since that’s not progress has been made. the United States. We should honor going to happen, they just want to punish— The crisis in the Sudan is an important those who died in the storm and use the more casualties the better.’’ Oliver issue to me. I recently shared my concerns the anniversary to continue improving ‘‘Buck’’ Revell, former Deputy Director of with Secretary General Annan, and re- hurricane forecasting and to make life the FBI. quested that he and his staff continue to safer and more secure along our coasts. ‘‘He’s a cold-blooded terrorist. He doesn’t work to ensure that humanitarian organiza- My resolution recognizes the histor- care who he kills. He may be the most dan- tions like Operation Lifeline Sudan are able ical significance of the 100th anniver- gerous man in the world.’’ Superintendent to effectively carry out their desperately- sary of the hurricane, it remembers the Samuel Pagdilao of the National needed work. victims, and it urges the President to Defense Police describing Yousef. I share your hope for and commitment to ‘‘One man said to me ‘remember there will an end to this humanitarian disaster. issue a proclamation in memory of the only be those who believe and those who will Sincerely, thousands of Galvestonians who lost die. There will only be the dead and the be- RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE. their lives and the survivors who re- lievers’.’’ Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Min- f built the city. ister of Pakistan. f ‘‘If Russia can be destroyed, the United 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF States can also be beheaded.’’ Osama bin GALVESTON HURRICANE b 1745 Laden. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a FEDERAL BUDGET ‘‘In my personal view [Osama bin Laden’ is very much interested in obtaining weapons previous order of the House, the gen- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. of mass destruction and he has the money to tleman from Texas (Mr. LAMPSON) is LAHOOD). Under the Speaker’s an- pay for them. It’s certainly a credible recognized for 5 minutes. nounced policy of January 6, 1999, the threat.’’ Peter Probst, Pentagon terrorism Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, today I gentleman from Texas (Mr. STENHOLM) expert. introduced a concurrent resolution in is recognized for 60 minutes as the des- ‘‘We don’t consider it a crime if we tried to memory of the 100th anniversary of the ignee of the minority leader. have nuclear, chemical, biological weapons. devastating hurricane which struck Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I want If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. I thank God for enabling me to do so.’’ to thank those making this period of Osama bin Laden. The residents of Galveston showed time available today to further the dis- ‘‘Terrorism is changing. We expect biologi- great courage and sacrifice during that cussion of the bill that was vetoed and cal attacks in the future.’’ Marvin Cetron, terrible storm, and I thought it was then sustained earlier today. author of the Pentagon’s secret Terror 2000 important for Congress to recognize I would gather that anyone listening investigation. that that same spirit is still present in to the debate today was rather con- the people who live there today; and I fused about what was in the bills or ‘‘THE NEW JACKALS’’ BY SIMON REEVE wanted to join them as they honor the what was not in the bills or what the AL QAEDA memories of those who lost their lives effect would be. But to do this, to set Perhaps most crucially, bin Laden cannily on that historic day 100 years ago. the stage for this, I think it is impor- invested in Gum Arabic Company Limited, a In an era without radar, satellites or tant for us to go back and to review the Khartoum-based firm which has a virtual modern radio, the island of Galveston budget debates earlier this year. monopoly over most of Sudan’s exports of was quickly overtaken by vast waves, And I want to speak on behalf again gum Arabic, which in turn comprises around 80 per cent of the world’s supply. Gum Arabic surging flood waters and powerful of the Blue Dog budget, the Blue Dog comes from the sap of the Sudanese acacia winds of more than 120 miles per hour. Coalition, that proposed a budget that tree. A colourless, tasteless gum, it makes The hurricane that struck Galveston is got 171 votes, a majority of the Demo- newspaper ink stick to printing presses, the deadliest natural disaster in the crats, and 33 Republicans, joined with

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