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“I too want to congratulate the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman) for bringing this legislation forward. He has worked in a bipartisan fashion with the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) and others in the Committee on International Relations including the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) in making sure that the antiterrorism legislation moves forward in this Congress. We owe a great debt of gratitude to the gentleman from New York for his leadership in this area. We just have to look to the fact that the program that Chairman Gilman referred to relates back to the August 7, 1998 reward and poster which he spoke of earlier where two explosions rocked the U.S. embassies in Kenya and in Tanzania killing over 200 innocent people. This particular reward calls for a reward to those individuals who will bring information against Haroun Fazil who is a member of an international terrorist group dedicated to opposing select governments with force and violence. The fact is this legislation, H.R. 4660, Mr. Speaker, will amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to provide rewards of an increase from $2 million to $5 million for the arrest and conviction of any individual for the commission of an act, or conspiracy to act, of international terrorism, narcotics related offenses, or for serious violations of international humanitarian law.”