Sentences with phrase «foreign terrorist organization»

The law makes it a crime to for anyone to knowingly provide material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations.

At issue in this case are provisions of an anti-terrorism statute that prevent lawyers from offering advice to groups designated as foreign terrorist organizations, even if the advice is for lawful and humanitarian peace - making endeavors.

For example, countries obviously don't want members of foreign terrorist organizations, drug runners, or hostile foreign spies entering their country.

By pledging allegiance to ISIL, these defendants allegedly conspired to fight for a designated foreign terrorist organization, either in Syria or even New York.»

Akayed Ullah, 27, faces charges that include supporting a foreign terrorist organization, using a weapon of mass destruction and carrying out a terrorist attack against a mass transit system, according to an indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan.

Yesterday's decision to officially label Boko Haram as a «foreign terrorist organization» drew strong praise from Christian Solidarity Worldwide and other observers of religious freedom in Nigeria.

The tangled case of alleged Islamic State supporter Arafat Nagi has moved another step forward in the criminal justice process, with his indictment on two counts, including attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

However, as Andrew March of The Atlantic points out, Dairieh's actions may have actually been illegal under 18 U.S. Code § 2339B for «providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations,»

The Court rejected the claim that the statute «should be interpreted to require proof that a defendant intended to further a foreign terrorist organization's illegal activities.»

In enacting this law, Congress recognized «that some foreign terrorist organizations, acting through affiliated groups or individuals, raise significant funds within the United States, or use the United States as a conduit for the receipt of funds raised in other nations.»

Specifically, the bill called on the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis to examine «the threat posed by individuals using virtual currency to carry out activities in furtherance of an act of terrorism, including the provision of material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.»