WHEREAS, Al Qaeda is a militant Islamist group that advocates | 13 |
global jihad against the West and the destruction of the state of | 14 |
Israel. Al Qaeda has been linked to multiple terrorist attacks | 15 |
against the United States and our allies, including the 1993 World | 16 |
Trade Center bombing, the United States Embassy bombings in Kenya | 17 |
and Tanzania, the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, and the September | 18 |
11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as | 19 |
well as numerous other attacks around the world; and | 20 |
WHEREAS, The death of Osama bin Laden represents the | 30 |
culmination of nearly ten years of efforts by the United States | 31 |
Armed Forces and intelligence agencies as well as efforts of our | 32 |
allies to bring Osama bin Laden to justice for the death and | 33 |
destruction that he and his organization have wrought throughout | 34 |
the world. Those efforts, most of which are not known or | 35 |
recognized, are indicative of the courage, skill, determination, | 36 |
and honor of the men and women who have undertaken them on behalf | 37 |
of the citizens of the United States and freedom-loving people | 38 |
throughout the world; now therefore be it | 39 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the House of | 40 |
Representatives of the 129th General Assembly of the state of | 41 |
Ohio, commend and honor the members of the United States Armed | 42 |
Forces, including the United States Special Operations Forces, the | 43 |
United States national security agencies, and the United States | 44 |
intelligence community in conducting the successful operation | 45 |
against Osama bin Laden on Sunday May 1, 2011; and be it further | 46 |