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  • Appeals court overturns 1996 ban on providing aid to groups considered terrorist (9th Circus)

    12/03/2003 8:24:41 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 39 replies · 213+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 12/3/03 | David Kravets - AP
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court Wednesday overturned part of a sweeping 1996 anti-terror law that prohibits financial assistance or "material support" to organizations classified as terrorist by the State Department. The government has increasingly used the law to prosecute suspected terrorists, and the ruling could be a blow to the Bush administration's legal strategy in the war on terror.The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that it is unconstitutional to punish people - sometimes with life in prison - for providing "training" or "personnel" to a terror group, categories the judges called overbroad. The...