Here is an article about the 4 US residents in question: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/20/us/afghanistan-taliban/index.html Here is the indictment PDF: http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2070.pdf According to the PDF, defendants "conspired to provide material support and resources, including but not limited to property, services, and personnel, including themselves, knowing and intending that they be used in preparation for, and in carrying out, crimes of terrorism in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339A." The indictment uses (among other things) social media likes/shares as evidence that there is "probable cause to believe" defendants violated the law, but, from what I can discern, does not say the likes/shares themselves constituted material support per se. From my inexpert reading of the indictment, it suggests that (there is probable cause to believe that) the defendants themselves constituted the material support. Sort of a strange existential distinction there... Somebody who has more legal knowledge than I might be able to comment on this more usefully. On 11/28/2012 01:40 PM, Mohammad Shublaq wrote:

Facebook blikesb used as evidence of material support for terrorism

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