They have been arrested for acts of terrorism.

Recent Examples on the Web

Scores of congressional and state-level candidates for office around the country have expressed varying degrees of support for a movement that the FBI has warned could inspire domestic terrorism or violence. Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune, "Minnesota GOP lawmaker speaks out against QAnon supporters on ballot," 26 Sep. 2020

In his conference speech, Mr. Xi made no reference to these programs or his 2014 demands for eradicating separatism and terrorism in Xinjiang. Chun Han Wong, WSJ, "Xi Says China Will Continue Efforts to Assimilate Muslims in Xinjiang," 26 Sep. 2020

Murmurs broke at the terrorism trial of 14 people, including 3 fugitives, accused of helping the attackers in the January 2015 killings, as the news filtered through. Bloomberg.com, "Terror Probe Opened After 2 Stabbed in Paris; 2 Arrests," 25 Sep. 2020

French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation. New York Times, "2 Wounded in Paris Knife Attack Near Charlie Hebdo’s Former Office," 25 Sep. 2020

Murmurs broke at the terrorism trial of 14 people, including 3 fugitives, accused of helping the attackers in the January 2015 killings, as the news filtered through. Angela Charlton And Oleg Cetinic, chicagotribune.com, "4 wounded in Paris knife attack near former Charlie Hebdo offices," 25 Sep. 2020

In 2001, following the the 9/11 attacks, another form of bio-terrorism shook the country when letters containing anthrax were sent to congressional and media offices. Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, "Canadian woman charged with threatening Trump after letter with ricin mailed to White House," 23 Sep. 2020

In 2017, other Sunni Arab countries in the region imposed an embargo on Qatar for its alleged role in financing international radical Islamic terrorism. Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, "Fear grows for jailed Qatari royal amid health decline as wife pleads at UN for release," 21 Sep. 2020

He was eventually put on the FBI’s Security Index, a list of potentially dangerous subversives that is the forerunner to today’s terrorism watchlists. Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, "Inside the FBI’s File on Soviet Poet-Dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko," 21 Sep. 2020

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