The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
amended 18 U.S.C.
§ 2339A to expand its list of terrorist type offenses.
See Pub. L.
104-132, § 323, 110 Stat. 1214, 1255. Section 2339A,
originally enacted on
September 13, 1994, is primarily a statute aimed at reaching those
persons who
provide material support to terrorists knowing that such support
will be used to
commit one of the offenses specified in the statute. (The offenses
specified in
the statute are: 18 U.S.C. §§ 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 and 49 U.S.C. §
46502.) The section
requires only that the supplier of the material support have
knowledge of its
intended use. Section 2339A, unlike the aiding and abetting statute
(18 U.S.C.
§ 2), does not require that the supplier also have whatever
specific intent
the perpetrator of the actual terrorist act must have to commit one
of the
specified offenses. The 1996 amendment also eliminated former
subsection 2339A(c)
which had imposed unworkable investigative restrictions upon the
statute's
utilization.