A provision in next year’s federal spending bill requires the Justice Department to pursue terrorists who have killed Americans overseas. The omnibus spending bill, which passed Congress late last month, includes provisions commonly known as the Koby Mandell Act, which transfer responsibility for tracking terrorists who have killed U.S. citizens from the State Department to the Justice Department. The bill, named in memory of a 13-year-old Israeli-American who was killed by a Palestinian mob in the West Bank in 2001, has been strongly backed by several Jewish groups.
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