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 118 STAT. 3815 PUBLIC LAW 108–458—DEC. 17, 2004 1993, the attack on the embassies of the United States in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, the attack on the USS Cole on October 12, 2000, and the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, traveled across international borders to plan and carry out these attacks. (3) The international terrorists who planned other attacks on the United States, including the plot to bomb New York City landmarks in 1993, the plot to bomb the New York City subway in 1997, and the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on December 31, 1999, traveled across international borders to plan and carry out these attacks. (4) Many of the international terrorists who planned and carried out large-scale attacks against foreign targets, including the attack in Bali, Indonesia, on October 11, 2002, and the attack in Madrid, Spain, on March 11, 2004, traveled across international borders to plan and carry out these attacks. (5) Throughout the 1990s, international terrorists, including those involved in the attack on the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, the plot to bomb New York City landmarks in 1993, and the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on December 31, 1999, trav- eled on fraudulent passports and often had more than 1 pass- port. (6) Two of the September 11, 2001, hijackers were carrying passports that had been manipulated in a fraudulent manner. (7) The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, (commonly referred to as the 9/11 Commis- sion), stated that ‘‘Targeting travel is at least as powerful a weapon against terrorists as targeting their money.’’. (b) INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS TO TRACK AND CURTAIL TER- RORIST TRAVEL.— (1) INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ON LOST, STOLEN, OR FAL- SIFIED DOCUMENTS.—The President should lead efforts to track and curtail the travel of terrorists by supporting the drafting, adoption, and implementation of international agreements, and relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions to track and stop international travel by terrorists and other criminals through the use of lost, stolen, or falsified documents to aug- ment United Nations and other international anti-terrorism efforts. (2) CONTENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.—The Presi- dent should seek, as appropriate, the adoption or full implementation of effective international measures to— (A) share information on lost, stolen, and fraudulent passports and other travel documents for the purposes of preventing the undetected travel of persons using such passports and other travel documents that were obtained improperly; (B) establish and implement a real-time verification system of passports and other travel documents with issuing authorities; (C) share with officials at ports of entry in any such country information relating to lost, stolen, and fraudulent passports and other travel documents; (D) encourage countries— (i) to criminalize— VerDate 11-MAY-2000 13:54 Nov 10, 2005 Jkt 029194 PO 00000 Frm 00349 Fmt 6580 Sfmt 6581 C:\STATUTES\2004\29194PT4.001 APPS10 PsN: 29194PT4

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