(a) FindingsThe Congress finds that—
(2)
the Palestine Liberation Organization (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the “PLO”) was directly responsible for the murder of an American citizen on the Achille Lauro cruise liner in 1985, and a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee is under indictment in the United States for the murder of that American citizen;
(4)
the PLO and its constituent groups have taken credit for, and been implicated in, the murders of dozens of American citizens abroad;
(5)
the PLO covenant specifically states that “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine, thus it is an overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase”;