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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Do I get to count wins against both of you, because the statute he quotes doesn't help except against the people supplying the bomber/hijacker?

Uh, not quite. Providing "material support" includes providing personnel to the terrorist group -- including yourself. In your post, you asked what Atta could have been arrested for. He provided himself to a terrorist organization.

From the statute that I partially quoted:

• a) Prohibited Activities.—
  (1) Unlawful conduct.— Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ht...9---B000-.html

• 4) the term “material support or resources” has the same meaning given that term in section 2339A (including the definitions of “training” and “expert advice or assistance” in that section);

Which takes us here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ht...9---A000-.html

• (b) Definitions.— As used in this section—
  (1) the term “material support or resources” means any property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (1 or more individuals who may be or include oneself), and transportation, except medicine or religious materials

Please let me know why we can't arrest a member of a terrorist organization under this statute.