A Ticking Time Bomb in Anti-Terrorism Law

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed down an opinion that will probably fail to receive much coverage, but it should.

The case concerns a would-be suicide terrorist by the name of Akayed Ullah, who, just six years after arriving in the United States from Bangladesh in 2011, set off a pipe bomb at the Times Square subway station. The device only partially detonated, leaving himself and five others injured. After the attack, Ullah told investigators that he had done so on behalf of ISIS.