The "Material Support" Test for Terrorism

"In his speech on Iraq last night, President Bush describing Iran as providing "material support for attacks on U.S. troops," and identified Syria and Iran as providing terrorists with staging areas. The phrase "material support" is an interesting one, as the "material support" language comes straight from legislation pertaining to terrorism that makes it a federal crime to provide "material support" to terrorists.

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act defines “material support” for terrorists as providing “currency or monetary instruments of financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safe houses, false documentation or identification, communications, equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel transportation, and other physical assets, except medicine or religious materials.""
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