He is awaiting trial in Canada, the first suspect to be tried under Canada's 2001 Antiterrorism Act.
Our bill would repeal the Antiterrorism Act, which mandated the P.L.O. office closing.
The Antiterrorism Act of 1996 and a supplemental appropriation to the act a year later provided some strengthened measures.
Before the Antiterrorism Act of 1996, Americans could sue only individuals, not governments, for terrorist acts committed beyond American soil.
Happily, the Antiterrorism Act presents a simpler problem.
The mission will remain, yet Congress need not (it is doubtful if it would) repeal the Antiterrorism Act.
In 2000, the former hostages sued the Iranian government for state sponsored terrorism under the 1996 Antiterrorism Act.
The Antiterrorism Act is, as Professor Reisman says, a silly statute.
The Antiterrorism Act may be "bad."
In 2000, the hostages and their families tried to sue Iran, unsuccessfully, under the Antiterrorism Act.
