The feds can tack on enhanced penalties for domestic terrorism, but federal statutes target terrorists who are linked to, or inspired by, foreign terrorist organizations and ideologies.
They are tolerated much more than the terrorists to whom they are linked.
Ethnic Somalis tend to be disliked; the Nairobi police have swept up hundreds of them on the suspicion that they are linked to terrorists.
In several dozen cases both high profile and little noticed, the law has become the Justice Department's main weapon in pursuing people it contends are linked to terrorists.
The German government has frozen 214 bank accounts it believes are linked to terrorists as part of an effort by allies of the United States to comply with a request by the Bush administration, the Economics Ministry said today.
"The car had black windows and still we cannot say if they are linked with terrorist groups, but whoever they are they are the enemies of peace and stability in Afghanistan and they are people who do not see benefit for themselves in peace," he said.
"Obama... will emphasize Syria's growing status as a haven for terrorist groups, some of which are linked to Al Qaeda, officials said.
As has been reported in the Western press, the "rebels" who The New York Times says may be getting "greater American support... including heavier weapons" are closely tied to the "terrorist groups, some of which are linked to Al Qaeda" who unnamed Administration officials say are increasingly finding haven in Syria.
It's not good P.R. for our war on terrorism that Islamic terrorists have been linked to eight attacks abroad since Daniel Pearl's murder in January, including the assassination of the Afghan vice president in Kabul and the slaughter of an American diplomat, among others, at a church in Islamabad.
The police here have detained an accused terrorist who is linked to the network of Osama bin Laden and to an Islamic fundamentalist cell in Canada that plotted to bomb American buildings, an investigator said.
