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> In some countries just conspiring to commit a terrorist act can lead to a conviction Like the US

• ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
  To actually get this type of conviction there has to be TONS of hard evidence to the point where in layman terms things are beyond what is typically considered 'conspiring'. For example, this dude got convicted for 'conspiracy and other offences' after his buddies were 'firing assault rifles at security personnel and law enforcement officers' and ended up getting killed. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/phoenix-man-convicted-conspiracy-support-isil-and-other-terrorism-related-offenses https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/phoenix-man-convicted-conspir...
  • reptation 10y ago
    Not true, look at the Mehanna case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Mehanna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Mehanna or the Al-Arian case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-Arian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-Arian
    • ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
      Both cases involved deliberate actions by the defendants classified as illegal, hence the conviction. Not to mention things like '...20,000 hours of dialogue from 472,000 wiretapped telephone conversations on 18 tapped lines gathered from 1994 to 2003', multiple court appearances etc etc. This just goes to demonstrate exactly why FBI is doing things the way the article describes.