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U.S. Response I: House Moves to Implement Anti-Terrorism Treaties The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved measures, 381-36, to implement the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism. The anti-bombing treaty requires parties to prosecute or extradite suspects in bombing attacks. The United States initiated the act after the 1996 attack on U.S. military personnel in Saudi Arabia. The U.S. Senate approved the convention in 1999, and it entered into force in May 2001. The financing treaty requires parties to prosecute or extradite people suspected of providing or collecting funds for terrorist attacks. The Senate has approved the treaty, but it has not entered into force internationally. Several House Democrats who supported the treaties expressed concern that provisions included in the implementation legislation allowing the death penalty for some bombing crimes could make it more difficult to persuade anti-capital punishment countries to send suspects to the United States. “It’s become a serious problem in terms of our legal relationships with our most steadfast allies,” said Representative William Delahunt (D-Mass.). The Senate has yet to consider the House legislation (Jim Abrams, Associated Press Worldstream, Dec. 19).
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