Future uncertain for terror law used in Hezbollah case

Tuesday, July 9, 2002

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The same day last month that Mohamad Hammoud became the first person convicted under a 1996 law that bans aid to terrorist groups, a federal judge in California declared the statute unconstitutional.

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