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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