United States v. Al Kassar

How courts have described this case

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• permitting United States prosecution as long as defendants “would reasonably understand that their conduct was criminal and would subject them to prosecution somewhere”
• identifying “two express scienter requirements: that the aid be intentional and that the defendant know the organization he is aiding is a terrorist organization or engages in acts of terrorism”
• explaining that extraterritoriality principles differ for criminal statutes
• supplying weapons to a designated terrorist organization with the knowledge they would be used to attack U.S. personnel was “self-evidently criminal” and “their deliberate attempts to avoid detection suggested the defendants so understood”
• “[Cjonspiracy offenses ... often result in no palpable harm. Jurisdictional nexus is determined by the aims of the conspiracy, not by its effects.”
• same where foreign defendants supplied weapons to known terrorist organization overseas for use against U.S. citizens and property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).