updated with indictment attached United States v. Yusuf (S.D. Cal.)

[Updated: indictment attached] United States v. Yusuf (S.D. Cal.)

I posted yesterday about the new al-Shabaab indictment, United States v. Yusuf. I’m reposting now in order to circulate the indictment. Not a great deal of additional information here. The 2339A charge is predicated on support for a violation of 18 USC 956(a), which is in turn the standard charge for conspiring to commit unlawful acts of violence outside the United States; 2339A charges frequently are predicated on 956(a). As to both the 2339A and 2339B charges, the nature of the “material support or resources” in question is specified as money and personnel.

YusufIndict.pdf

By Robert M. Chesney

Robert M. Chesney is Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at UT-Austin School of Law. Chesney is a national security law specialist, with a particular interest in problems associated with terrorism. Professor Chesney recently served in the Justice Department in connection with the Detainee Policy Task Force created by Executive Order 13493. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board, a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Chesney has published extensively on topics ranging from detention and prosecution in the counterterrorism context to the states secrets privilege. He served previously as chair of the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools and as editor of the National Security Law Report (published by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security). His upcoming projects include two books under contract with Oxford University Press, one concerning the evolution of detention law and policy and the other examining the judicial role in national security affairs.

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