The phrase "assisting terrorist" is not correct as it lacks an article and should be "assisting a terrorist" or "assisting terrorists." You can use it when discussing actions that support or aid individuals involved in terrorism.
Example: "The authorities arrested several individuals for assisting a terrorist organization."
Alternatives: "aiding a terrorist" or "supporting terrorists."
They are suspected of having both the intention and capability of planning or assisting terrorist activity in the UK.
Ms. Slovinsky said that immigration officials have told her that they have Israeli records showing he was convicted of assisting terrorist organizations for referring Palestinian students arriving in Jordan to join the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist group, and Hamas.
In 2003, the then head of MI5, Eliza Manningham Buller, claimed the danger was posed by people in the UK assisting terrorist networks run overseas, not the other way round.
Mr. Letter said it would be a crime for a lawyer to file a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of a designated organization in Mr. Fertig's case or "to be assisting terrorist organizations in making presentations to the U.N., to television, to a newspaper".
There certainly is mounting evidence that Pyongyang is assisting terrorist entities such as Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.
But being accused of assisting terrorists is not.
So I guess that makes me guilty of assisting terrorists in the eyes of Lebanon, Israel and the US.
A Staten Island businessman pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Manhattan to a single federal count of assisting terrorists by providing satellite television services to Hezbollah's television station, Al Manar.
But it also argued that Iraq would refrain from "the extreme step" of assisting terrorists in attacking the United States with weapons of mass destruction if Washington did not invade.
It is unfortunate that Lou Dobbs and certain New York politicians equate the restoration of undocumented immigrants' access to driver's licenses to assisting terrorists ("Lou Dobbs Crusades Against Spitzer's Driver's License Plan for Illegal Immigrants," news article, Oct. 17).
The justice ministers did succeed in agreeing on a definition of terrorism, and agreed to standardize penalties across the European Union: at least 15 years in prison as a maximum sentence for being a leader of a terrorist group, and a minimum of eight years for anyone threatening to conduct terrorist acts or assisting terrorists.
