An associate of the Lackawanna Six, the secularized Yemeni Muslims in Lackawanna, New York who were convinced through Qur'an studies led by an Al-Qaeda recruiter to try to journey to Afghanistan to join the jihad. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinpolitan Irredentist:
BUFFALO, N.Y. - An American wanted for allegedly training with the "Lackawanna Six" at an al-Qaida camp was among the 23 men who tunneled out of a Yemeni prison last week, the FBI confirmed Friday.Authorities earlier said they believed Jaber Elbaneh, 39, was probably among the escapees, but were not certain because of conflicting information, including a posting by the international police organization Interpol that pictured Elbaneh but described someone else.
Elbaneh is charged in Buffalo with providing material support to al-Qaida by attending the al-Farooq training camp run by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Six other men who attended the camp — dubbed the Lackawanna Six after the city near Buffalo where they lived — are serving sentences ranging from seven to 10 years after pleading guilty in 2003 to providing support to a terrorist organization.
ot: heard on radio - danish diplomats are leaving syria, because the syrian government has refused to guarantee them protection.
no links yet.
this is O.T. but you gotta watch this video on google video. It's called "It's in the Koran"
funny as hell....
Canuck
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8442014088728649932
The pieces in the chessboard are moving. Preparing for checkmate soon, methinks.
Word is that one aircraft carrier group has set sail for the persian gulf last month (from some base in N Carolina) and at least 1 is already in the Arabian Sea. This is in addition to a British carrier group, and boots on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Lackawana six deserved far worse than merely some yrs in prison. The Yemenis are allies too in the GWOT? (Like Pak and Saudi?)
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"An American wanted for allegedly training with "
No doubt this man has been oppressed by the USA. Staved into poverty by his evil dictatorial leader who is nothing more than a lapdog of the imperialist USA. No doubt he has a low level of education and cannot read himself, emulating Mohammed himself.
What's that you say? He's an American??? Oh...
-/sarcasim off!
The U.S. had requested that Yemen hand over the American but no official response ever came,sounds like a bunch of "tomfoolery" to me.
Our Allie's seem to be inadequate.