To express the sense of Congress that the United States Armed Forces, the intelligence community, and other agencies, as well as the coalition partners of the United States and the Iraqi Security Forces should be commended for their actions that resulted in the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist organization and the most wanted terrorist in Iraq.

SA 4208. Mr. WARNER (for Mr. Frist (for himself, Mr. Reid, Mr.
Warner, and Mr. Levin)) proposed an amendment to the bill S. 2766, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other
purposes; as follows:

At the end of subtitle I of title X, insert the following:

SEC. 1084. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE COMMENDABLE ACTIONS OF
THE ARMED FORCES.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) on June 7, 2006, the United States Armed Forces
conducted an air raid near the City of Baquba, northeast of
Baghdad, Iraq, that resulted in the death of Ahmad Fadeel al-
Nazal al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
leader of the al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist organization and the
most wanted terrorist in Iraq;
(2) Zarqawi, as the operational commander of al-Qaeda in
Iraq, led a brutal campaign of suicide bombings, car
bombings, assassinations, and abductions that caused the
deaths of many members of the United States Armed Forces,
civilian officials of the United States Government, thousands
of innocent Iraqi civilians, and innocent civilians of other
nations;
(3) Zarqawi publicly swore his allegiance to Osama bin
Laden and al-Qaeda in 2004, and changed the name of his
terrorist organization from the ``Monotheism and Holy War
Group'' to ``al-Qaeda in Iraq'';
(4) in an audiotape broadcast in December 2004, Osama bin
Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda's worldwide terrorist
organization, called Zarqawi ``the prince of al-Qaeda in
Iraq'';
(5) 3 perpetrators confessed to being paid by Zarqawi to
carry out the October 2002 assassination of the United States
diplomat, Lawrence Foley, in Amman, Jordan;
(6) the Monotheism and Holy War Group claimed
responsibility for--
(A) the August 2003 suicide attack that destroyed the
United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and killed the United
Nations envoy to Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello along with 21
other people; and
(B) the suicide attack on the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf that
occurred less than 2 weeks later, which killed at least 85
people, including the Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim,
and wounded dozens more;
(7) Zarqawi is believed to have personally beheaded
American hostage Nicholas Berg in May 2004;
(8) in May 2004, Zarqawi was implicated in a car bombing
that killed Izzadine Salim, the rotating president of the
Iraqi Governing Council;
(9) in November 2005, al-Qaeda in Iraq attacked 3 hotels in
Amman, Jordan, killing at least 67 innocent civilians;
(10) Zarqawi and his terrorist organization were directly
responsible for numerous other brutal terrorist attacks
against the American and coalition troops, Iraqi security
forces and recruits, and innocent Iraqi civilians;
(11) Zarqawi sought to turn Iraq into a safe haven for al-
Qaeda;
(12) to achieve that end, Zarqawi stated his opposition to
the democratically elected government of Iraq and worked to
divide the Iraqi people, foment sectarian violence, and
incite a civil war in Iraq; and
(13) the men and women of the United States Armed Forces,
the intelligence community, and other agencies, along with
coalition partners and the Iraqi Security Forces, should be
commended for their courage and extraordinary efforts to
track down the most wanted terrorist in Iraq and to secure a
free and prosperous future for the people of Iraq.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
Congress--
(1) commends the United States Armed Forces, the
intelligence community, and other agencies, along with
coalition partners, for the actions taken through June 7,
2006, that resulted in the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
leader of the al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist organization and the
most wanted terrorist in Iraq;
(2) commends the United States Armed Forces, the
intelligence community, and other agencies for this action
and their exemplary performance in striving to bring freedom,
democracy, and security to the people of Iraq;
(3) commends the coalition partners of the United States,
the new government of Iraq, and members of the Iraqi Security
Forces for their invaluable assistance in that operation and
their extraordinary efforts to secure a free and prosperous
Iraq;
(4) commends our civilian and military leadership for their
continuing efforts to eliminate the leadership of al-Qaeda in
Iraq, and also commends the new government of Iraq, led by
Prime Minister Jawad al-Maliki, for its contribution to that
achievement;
(5) recognizes that the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is a
victory for American and coalition forces in the global war
on terror and a blow to the al-Qaeda terrorist organization;
(6) commends the Iraqi Prime Minister Jawad al-Maliki on
the finalization of the new Iraqi cabinet;
(7) urges the democratically elected government in Iraq to
use this opportunity to defeat the terrorist enemy, to put an
end to ethnic and sectarian violence, and to achieve a free,
prosperous, and secure future for Iraq; and
(8) affirms that the Senate will continue to support the
United States Armed Forces, the democratically elected unity
government of Iraq, and the people of Iraq in their quest to
secure a free, prosperous, and democratic Iraq.

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