Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit August 15, 1986, 85-3538 (United States v. Gurpartap Singh Birk, Sukhvinder Singh, Virinder Singh, Jasbir Sandhu and Jatinder Singh Ahluwalia)

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Defendants, a group of Sikhs, were charged with conspiring to assassinate the Chief Minister of an Indian state while he was in New Orleans last spring. The district court dismissed the indictment, ruling that it failed to state a federal offense because the Chief Minister was not a “foreign official, official guest, or internationally protected person” as required under 18 U.