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CITE

    21 USC Sec. 960a                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
    CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
    SUBCHAPTER II - IMPORT AND EXPORT

HEAD

    Sec. 960a. Foreign terrorist organizations, terrorist persons and
      groups

STATUTE

    (a) Prohibited acts
      Whoever engages in conduct that would be punishable under section
    841(a) (!1) of this title if committed within the jurisdiction of
    the United States, or attempts or conspires to do so, knowing or
    intending to provide, directly or indirectly, anything of pecuniary
    value to any person or organization that has engaged or engages in
    terrorist activity (as defined in section 1182(a)(3)(B) of title 8)
    or terrorism (as defined in section 2656f(d)(2) of title 22), shall
    be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than twice the
    minimum punishment under section 841(b)(1),(!1) and not more than
    life, a fine in accordance with the provisions of title 18, or
    both. Notwithstanding section 3583 of title 18, any sentence
    imposed under this subsection shall include a term of supervised
    release of at least 5 years in addition to such term of
    imprisonment.
    (b) Jurisdiction
      There is jurisdiction over an offense under this section if -
        (1) the prohibited drug activity or the terrorist offense is in
      violation of the criminal laws of the United States;
        (2) the offense, the prohibited drug activity, or the terrorist
      offense occurs in or affects interstate or foreign commerce;
        (3) an offender provides anything of pecuniary value for a
      terrorist offense that causes or is designed to cause death or
      serious bodily injury to a national of the United States while
      that national is outside the United States, or substantial damage
      to the property of a legal entity organized under the laws of the
      United States (including any of its States, districts,
      commonwealths, territories, or possessions) while that property
      is outside of the United States;
        (4) the offense or the prohibited drug activity occurs in whole
      or in part outside of the United States (including on the high
      seas), and a perpetrator of the offense or the prohibited drug
      activity is a national of the United States or a legal entity
      organized under the laws of the United States (including any of
      its States, districts, commonwealths, territories, or
      possessions); or
        (5) after the conduct required for the offense occurs an
      offender is brought into or found in the United States, even if
      the conduct required for the offense occurs outside the United
      States.
    (c) Proof requirements
      To violate subsection (a), a person must have knowledge that the
    person or organization has engaged or engages in terrorist activity
    (as defined in section 1182(a)(3)(B) of title 8) or terrorism (as
    defined in section 2656f(d)(2) of title 22).
    (d) Definition
      As used in this section, the term "anything of pecuniary value"
    has the meaning given the term in section 1958(b)(1) of title 18.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 91-513, title III, Sec. 1010A, as added Pub. L. 109-177,
    title I, Sec. 122, Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 225.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

      Section 841, referred to in the original in subsec. (a), probably
    should have been a reference to section 401 of Pub. L. 91-513,
    which is classified to section 841 of this title. Pub. L. 91-513
    does not contain a section 841.

FOOTNOTE

    (!1) See References in Text note below.
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