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Posted on 09/15/2001 5:46:23 AM PDT by angkor

FYI, the U.S. Senate spoke directly to the matter of aircraft terrorism in a "sense of the Senate" declaration inserted in H.R.3539, the Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act of 1996 (Engrossed Senate Amendment).

H.R.3539

SEC. 414. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING ACTS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.

(a) FINDINGS- The Senate finds that--

(1) there has been an intensification in the oppression and disregard for human life among nations that are willing to export terrorism;

(2) there has been an increase in attempts by criminal terrorists to murder airline passengers through the destruction of civilian airliners and the deliberate fear and death inflicted through bombings of buildings and the kidnapping of tourists and Americans residing abroad; and

(3) information widely available demonstrates that a significant portion of international terrorist activity is state-sponsored, -organized, -condoned, or -directed.

(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE- It is the sense of the Senate that if evidence establishes beyond a clear and reasonable doubt that any act of hostility towards any United States citizen was an act of international terrorism sponsored, organized, condoned, or directed by any nation, a state of war should be considered to exist or to have existed between the United States of America and that nation, beginning as of the moment that the act of aggression occurs.

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