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PUBLIC LAW 109–364—OCT. 17, 2006 (A) federalism; (B) the equitable distribution of oil revenues; (C) the demobilization and reintegration of armed militias

(D) the inducement of the armed opposition to lay down their arms and join the political process, and (E) the building of a renewed international partnership with Iraq aimed at encouraging the economic recovery and reconstruction of Iraq. (b) SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS.—A summit convened for the purpose stated in subsection (a) should include the following participants (as well as other appropriate participants): (1) Representatives of Iraq’s neighbors. (2) Representatives of the Arab League. (3) The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (4) Representatives of the European Union. (5) Leaders of the governments of each permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. SEC. 1230. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE COMMENDABLE ACTIONS OF THE ARMED FORCES IN IRAQ.

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: (1) On June 7, 2006, the United States Armed Forces carried out an air strike 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) Three 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 two weeks later, which killed at least 85 people, including the Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, and wounded dozens more.

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