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      "id": 104093,
      "date": "2001-10-03",
      "retrieved": "2016-05-24T20:20:26.043941",
      "title": "Terrorism Abroad: A Quick Look at Applicable Federal and State Laws",
      "summary": "Terrorists' attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the Murrah Federal Building in\nOklahoma City and the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania have stimulated demands that\nthe terrorists responsible and those like them be brought to justice. American criminal law already\nproscribes many of these acts of terrorism and there have been proposals to expand that coverage. \n  Ordinarily, crime is proscribed by the law of the place where it occurs, but more than a few\nAmerican criminal laws apply to terrorism committed outside the United States. The power to enact\nsuch laws flows from the Constitution and is usually limited by little more than due process notice. \nPracticality and reluctance to offend other nations have traditionally limited American exercise of\nsuch authority to instances where there is a discernible nexus to the United States. Yet where there\nis a clear connection to the United States, American criminal law, primarily federal law generally\npermits prosecution of terrorism committed overseas.\n  This report and a companion,  CRS Report RS21033(pdf) ,  Terrorism At Home: A Quick Look\n at\nApplicable Federal and State Criminal Law , are abbreviated from portions of  CRS Report 95-1050(pdf) ,\n Terrorism At Home and Abroad: Applicable Federal and State Criminal Laws , stripped\nof its\nfootnotes and appendices.",
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