Expressing the sense of the Congress that the President should pursue a multilateral initiative designed to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) continue his efforts to pursue all those responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; (2) take appropriate steps in the United Nations (UN) Security Council to secure UN support in enforcing economic sanctions against Libya if the Libyan Government refuses to comply fully with UN Security Council Resolution 731; (3) consider specified sanctions against Libya, to be implemented on a multilateral basis, such as banning the sale of all equipment and related technology used by the Libyan oil industry; (4) direct all appropriate U.S. agencies to continue to investigate the bombing to identify all individuals and governments responsible, bring responsible parties to justice, and seek compensation for the families of the victims; and (5) take necessary steps to fully implement the requirements of the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990.

 
HCON 284 IH
102d CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 284
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should pursue a
multilateral initiative designed to bring to justice those responsible for the
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 27, 1992
Mr. FEIGHAN submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should pursue a
multilateral initiative designed to bring to justice those responsible for the
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988.
Whereas on December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb
which killed all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground;
Whereas investigators believe that the bomb was concealed in a radio-cassette
player and planted in a forward luggage compartment of Flight 103;
Whereas an international investigation of the bombing initially focused on
the activities of Iran, Syria, and the terrorist group known as the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), headed by
a Syrian intelligence officer named Ahmed Jabril;
Whereas investigators originally believed that the attack was planned by Iran
as retaliation for the accidental downing by the United States of an Iranian
airliner in 1988 and that Iran had paid Ahmed Jabril to carry out this plan;
Whereas in October of 1988, West German police conducted a number of raids
against PFLP-GC cells in West Germany, seizing a large cache of weapons,
explosives, and a radio cassette player, and days after the raids, West
German officials discovered in the car of a PFLP-GC member a second radio
cassette player rigged as a bomb and equipped with a barometric trigger;
Whereas the discovery in Scotland of a microchip from the timing device
of the bomb shifted the focus of the international investigation to the
Libyan intelligence service which had purchased 20 such timers from a Swiss
manufacturer in 1985 and 1986;
Whereas investigators first theorized that Libyan intelligence operatives
carried out the attack after taking control of the operation from the PFLP-GC,
they later concluded that the bombing was an operation backed by elements
of the Libyan Government seeking retaliation for the 1986 United States
military attack against Libya;
Whereas these agents used the knowledge and access gained from their official
Libyan government status as representatives of Libyan Arab Airlines to
facilitate the bombing of Flight 103;
Whereas on November 13, 1991, the United States issued 193-count indictments
against two Libyan intelligence operatives, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and
Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, in connection with the bombing of Flight 103;
Whereas on January 21, 1992, the United Nations Security Council passed
a resolution urging Libya to provide a full and effective response to the
requests of the governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, and
France to surrender those individuals indicted for the bombing of Flight 103
and the bombing of Union des Transports Airiens Flight 772, which exploded
over Niger in September 1989, killing 177 passengers; and
Whereas in 1979 and for each year thereafter Libya has been identified by
the Secretary of State as a country that has repeatedly provided support
for acts of international terrorism and has been the subject of bilateral
sanctions imposed by the United States Government: Now, therefore, be it
  Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it
  is the sense of the Congress that--
  (1) the President should continue his efforts to pursue all those responsible
  for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, including the parties responsible
  for financing, planning, and carrying out the bombing;
  (2) the President should take appropriate steps in the United Nations
  Security Council to secure the support of the United Nations in enforcing
  economic sanctions against Libya if the Libyan government refuses to comply
  fully with United Nations Security Council Resolution 731 (1991);
  (3) the President should consider the following sanctions against Libya,
  to be implemented on a multilateral basis: cutting civilian air links with
  Libya; banning aircraft spare parts sales to Libya; banning government and
  commercial contracts with the government of Libya; ending oil purchases
  from Libyan sources; and banning the sale of all equipment and related
  technology used by the Libyan oil industry;
  (4) the President should direct all appropriate United States agencies to
  continue to investigate the bombing of Flight 103 in order to identify all
  individuals and all governments in any way responsible for the bombing,
  to bring all such parties to justice, and to seek compensation for the
  families of the victims of the bombing; and
  (5) the President should take all necessary steps to implement fully the
  requirements of the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990, which was
  based on the recommendations of the President's Commission on Aviation
  Security and Terrorism.