| The United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday enacted an anti-terror law which lays down capital punishment or a life term in jail for setting up or heading a terrorist organization. The legislation, decreed by President Sheikh Zayed ibn Sultan Al-Nahayan, also stipulates a life sentence or lesser jail terms for members or bankrollers of terrorist groups, the official WAM news agency reported. Anyone who carries out a fatal terror attack stands to be sentenced to death. People convicted of undergoing military training with a terrorist organization are liable to life sentences or jail terms of at least 10 years. The UAE, from where most of the cash spent by terrorists on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States was reportedly transferred, has launched a crackdown on suspect money. The Emirati central bank said in April it had frozen $3.1 million in funds linked to terrorism. |