[HN Gopher] Dutch Citizen Sentenced in the US For $300 Payment t...
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Dutch Citizen Sentenced in the US For $300 Payment to Al-Shabaab
Author : boeingUH60
Score : 13 points
Date : 2022-08-02 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (apnews.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (apnews.com)
| boeingUH60 wrote:
| " They said it was overreach for the U.S. to charge a Dutch woman
| for supporting Somali militants when she had no connection
| whatsoever to the U.S."
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| This is why I found the article interesting and submitted it. I
| get that sending money to terrorists, no matter how little, is
| bad, but I also found it baffling that the US can successfully
| extradite and prosecute a non-citizen for a relatively meager
| payment, especially when Al-shabaab wasn't even formally
| designated a terrorist group in her country.
| lsaferite wrote:
| I didn't see any justification on jurisdiction in the article.
| That seems like a massive journalistic miss to me.
| badrabbit wrote:
| Providing material aid to a group known to carry out terrorist
| attacks explicitly against americans(among others) is within
| the jurisdiction of the US because the US is the group's
| target. Dutch law is not what the US is prosecuting. Even if
| the group was named a terrorist group in her country, if it did
| not attack americans the US has no claim to make but that isn't
| the case. Similarly, if a person in europe gave aid to snowden
| they can be charged in the US for aiding a fugitive.
| hyperman1 wrote:
| That's only 1 side of the coin. How did they convince the
| Dutch governement to extradite her?
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