110 STAT. 1255PUBLIC LAW 104–132—APR. 24, 1996
SEC. 323. MODIFICATION OF MATERIAL SUPPORT PROVISION.
Section 2339A of title 18, United States Code, is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘§ 2339A. Providing material support to terrorists
‘‘(a) O
FFENSE
.—Whoever, within the United States, provides
material support or resources or conceals or disguises the nature,
location, source, or ownership of material support or resources,
knowing or intending that they are to be used in preparation
for, or in carrying out, a violation of section 32, 37, 81, 175, 351,
831, 842 (m) or (n), 844 (f) or (i), 956, 1114, 1116, 1203, 1361,
1362, 1363, 1366, 1751, 2155, 2156, 2280, 2281, 2332, 2332a, 2332b,
or 2340A of this title or section 46502 of title 49, or in preparation
for, or in carrying out, the concealment from the commission of
any such violation, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not
more than 10 years, or both.
‘‘(b) D
EFINITION
.—In this section, the term ‘material support
or resources’ means currency or other financial securities, financial
services, lodging, training, safehouses, false documentation or
identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal
substances, explosives, personnel, transportation, and other physical
assets, except medicine or religious materials.’’.
SEC. 324. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that—
(1) international terrorism is among the most serious
transnational threats faced by the United States and its allies,
far eclipsing the dangers posed by population growth or pollu-
tion;
(2) the President should continue to make efforts to counter
international terrorism a national security priority;
(3) because the United Nations has been an inadequate
forum for the discussion of cooperative, multilateral responses
to the threat of international terrorism, the President should
undertake immediate efforts to develop effective multilateral
responses to international terrorism as a complement to
national counter terrorist efforts;
(4) the President should use all necessary means, including
covert action and military force, to disrupt, dismantle, and
destroy international infrastructure used by international
terrorists, including overseas terrorist training facilities and
safe havens;
(5) the Congress deplores decisions to ease, evade, or end
international sanctions on state sponsors of terrorism, including
the recent decision by the United Nations Sanctions Committee
to allow airline flights to and from Libya despite Libya’s non-
compliance with United Nations resolutions; and
(6) the President should continue to undertake efforts to
increase the international isolation of state sponsors of inter-
national terrorism, including efforts to strengthen international
sanctions, and should oppose any future initiatives to ease
sanctions on Libya or other state sponsors of terrorism.
22 USC 2377
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