Under federal criminal statutes, for example, conspiring to commit terrorist acts is a crime.
During the investigation we found this group was about to commit terrorist attacks in Belgium".
"The accused was aware of the group's aim to commit terrorist acts and supported it logistically".
Mr. Abdel Rahman is serving a life sentence for conspiring to commit terrorist attacks in New York City.
He denied knowing that his friends, including three of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots, had intended to commit terrorist acts.
Mr. Sattar, who worked as a paralegal with Ms. Stewart, is accused of conspiring to commit terrorist murder and kidnapping.
The authorities have arrested five people suspected of intending to "commit terrorist acts" in France, said Agnès Labrégère, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office.
He said more needed to be known before judging whether extremists planned to commit terrorist acts in the US any time soon.
A Whitehall source told The Daily Telegraph: "People want to know that those who commit, or try to commit, terrorist offences face the toughest punishments.
Another Republican representative, Joe Walsh of Illinois, used a campaign rally to suggest that Muslims in the Chicago suburbs were plotting to commit terrorist attacks.
But that does not necessarily mean the end of Isis, which retains its capacity to commit terrorist atrocities throughout the country.
