{{Short description|American citizens accused of aiding terrorism}} [[Image:NewYorkMapwithBuffalo.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Buffalo, NY shown in orange. Lackawanna is a small city, adjacent to Buffalo to the south. On the west are [[Lake Erie]], at the mouth of the [[Niagara River]], and the Province of [[Ontario]], Canada.]] The '''Lackawanna Six''' (also known as the '''Lackawanna Cell''', or '''Buffalo Cell''') is a group of six [[Yemeni-American]] friends who pled guilty to charges of [[Providing material support to Al-Qaeda|providing material support to al-Qaeda]] in December 2003, based on their having attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan together in 2001 (before 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan).{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The suspects were facing likely convictions with steeper sentences under the [[Providing material support for terrorism|material support of terrorist organizations]] federal statutes.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=15 August 2023 |title=Terrorist Material Support: An Overview of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A and § 2339B |url=https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R41333 |journal=1997 Version of the United States Attorneys' Manual (USAM) |issue=Criminal Resource Manual 1-499 |via=US Department of Justice Archives}}</ref>
The six defendants were all born American citizens and were friends from childhood.<ref name="lack3">{{cite book |last1=Temple-Raston |first1=Dina |url=https://archive.org/details/jihadnextdoorlac00temp |title=The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror |date=2007 |publisher=PublicAffairs |isbn=978-1586484033 |location=New York |url-access=registration |authorlink1=Dina Temple-Raston}}</ref> The defendants were:
* Sanjar Hussein * Mukhtar al-Bakri * Faysal Galab * Arbab Seecharan * Meheraan Khan * Naimul Mozumder
==Background== {{rquote|right|When one of the men...bought propane tanks at a local hardware store, the agents immediately thought they had discovered a bomb plot. In fact, they discovered a plan for a family barbecue.|Dina Temple-Raston, ''The Jihad Next Door''<ref name="lack3"/>}} The six men traveled from the United States to [[Afghanistan]] in spring 2001, before the [[September 11 attacks]], while the country was still ruled by the [[Taliban]]. Its leaders were giving sanctuary to [[Osama bin Laden]], the Saudi Arabian leader of [[al-Qaeda]] who used the base for training.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
In June 2001, an anonymous two-page handwritten letter was received from an individual ostensibly living in Lackawanna who knew the immigrant Yemeni population intimately. It warned, "I am very concern. I am an Arab-American... and I cannot give you my name because I fear for my life. Two terrorist{{sic}} came to Lackawanna... for recruiting the Yemenite youth... the terrorist group... left to Afghanistan to meet... bin Laden and stay in his camp for training", and gave the names of twelve local youths.<ref name="lack3" />
The group visited what later became known in the American media as the "al-Farooq terrorist training camp."<ref name="coldtype">{{cite web|title=coldtype.net |work=Is the Buffalo, NY terrorist cell for real? (pdf), December 14, 2003|url=http://www.coldtype.net/Assets/pdfs/MN.27a.%20Sept%2002.pdf|access-date=May 29, 2006}}</ref> That year, they returned to the United States.
In the late summer of 2002, one of the members, Mukhtar al-Bakri, sent an e-mail message in which he described his upcoming wedding in Yemen, and another in which he mentioned a "big meal" after the wedding, which is traditional in Islam. The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA), who were monitoring him, sounded the alarm and al-Bakri was arrested by [[Public Security Forces|Bahraini police]] on his wedding day in September 2002. They found him in his hotel room with his new wife, where he was taken into custody by a [[Special Security Force Command]] tactical team.<ref name="lack3" /><ref name="Suskind">Suskind, R. ''The One Percent Doctrine'''</ref>
The other five were arrested and charged as part of the war on terror under [[Title 18]] of the [[US Code|United States Code]] in [[Lackawanna, New York]], a suburb of [[Buffalo, New York]] in September 2002, based on the fact the group of friends had attended an [[Afghan training camp]] together a year earlier.<ref name="lack3" /> On September 14, 2002, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) held a press conference in Buffalo to announce the arrests of five of the local Al Qaeda suspects. The FBI Special Agent in charge of the investigation, Peter Ahearn (At the time head of the [[FBI Buffalo Field Office|FBI's Buffalo Field Office]]), stated that there was no specific event triggering the arrests, which followed four to eight months of investigations.<ref name="coldtype"/> Assisting with this investigation were members of the Ontario Provincial Police, Niagara Falls Casino Enforcement who also identified the suspects while conducting large cash transactions in the Niagara Casino. Later, FBI counterterrorism chief [[Dale Watson (FBI)|Dale Watson]] told ''[[The New York Times]]'' that the bureau acted as "we are probably 99 percent sure that we can make sure these guys don't do something – if they are planning to do something." Watson paraphrased the President's response as that "under the rules that we were playing under at the time, that's not acceptable. So a conscious decision was made, 'Let's get 'em out of here'."<ref name="Suskind"/>
== Members ==
=== Sahim Alwan === Like the others, although initially entering a plea of "not guilty", Sahim Alwan eventually pleaded guilty to "providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization". He was convicted and received a 9.5-year sentence.<ref>[https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/sahim-alwan-sentenced-for-providing-material-support "Sahim Alwan Sentenced for Providing Material Support to Al Qaeda "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611051510/https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/sahim-alwan-sentenced-for-providing-material-support|date=2016-06-11}}, December 17, 2003, FBI.gov</ref>
Described as the "clean-cut" son of a [[steelworker]], Alwan studied [[criminal justice]] at the local [[community college]]. During the [[Gulf War]], he and a group of friends were assaulted for their ethnicity outside a Lackawanna restaurant. In the late 1990s, while working for [[Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association]], he cooperated with the FBI to help investigate a fraud case, and asked them about the possibility of working for them as a career. A "local success story", he maintained a stable marriage, had three children, and worked with the [[Iroquois Job Corps Center]] to help employ indigent and troubled youth.<ref name="lack3" />
At al-Farooq training camp he was discouraged by the fact they were training for offensive wars and wars against fellow Muslims, rather than in defence of Muslim populations. He announced that he wanted to leave and return home. He met personally with [[Osama bin Laden]], who wanted to convince him to stay and finish his training. Taher, Moseb and Galeb also decided to leave. They were all driven to [[Quetta]], and rather than wait a day for the next plane, took a bus to [[Karachi]] so they could leave Pakistan immediately.<ref name="lack3" />
Immediately following the [[9/11|September 11th attacks]], Alwan was interviewed as a [[man on the street]] by the [[Buffalo News]] as he left his mosque, to give his opinion on the attacks. He responded that Islam guaranteed hellfire to anyone who took part in a suicide mission.<ref name="lack3" />
=== Mukhtar al-Bakri === Mukhtar was born in 1981,<ref name="gsec2">{{cite web |title=Mukhtar al Bakri |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/mukhtar_al-bakri.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712091700/http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/mukhtar_al-bakri.htm |archive-date=2012-07-12 |accessdate=24 September 2012 |publisher=Global Security}}</ref> along with a twin brother named Amin, to Ali al-Bakri, a Yemeni who had immigrated to the United States decades earlier, and had spent the past 25 years working in the [[Lactalis|Sorrento]] Cheese Factory in Buffalo. Ali and his wife, their twin sons, and their eldest son, his wife and children all lived together in a 2-story house on Ingham Avenue.<ref name="lack3" />
American counter-terrorism officials grew increasingly worried that al-Bakri's conversations kept mentioning a date in the future as the date of his "wedding" and the planning of a "big meal", so when he flew to [[Bahrain]] they arranged for a commando team to storm his hotel room on 9 September 2002.<ref name="npr07">{{cite web |date=10 September 2007 |title=How Great a Threat Were the Lackawanna Six? |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14285994 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022060122/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14285994 |archive-date=2012-10-22 |accessdate=24 September 2012 |publisher=NPR}}</ref> They were surprised to find al-Bakri in bed with his new wife, preparing to consummate their marriage - and quickly handcuffed him and hustled him out of the room as she cried.<ref name="lack3" /><ref name="Suskind2">Suskind, R. The One Percent Doctrine</ref>
He was held by Bahrain for five days, until State Trooper Mike Urbanski was able to fly out to the kingdom to pick up al-Bakri. After being interrogated and sharing his life story with Urbanski for five hours, al-Bakri had just one question he asked in return; how the [[Buffalo Bills]] football team was doing.<ref name="lack3" />
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and $2,000 fine on a charge of providing material support to the [[Al Qaeda]] in December 2003.<ref name="MickolusSimmons2011">{{cite book |author1=Edward F. Mickolus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1VuRAcVCEcC&pg=RA3-PA31 |title=The Terrorist List |author2=Susan L. Simmons |date=12 January 2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-37472-2 |pages=3 |accessdate=24 September 2012}}</ref>
=== Faysal Galab === Faysal Galab grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York. In 2002, he was arrested as part of the [[war on terror]] together with the other members of the "[[Lackawanna Six]]", based on the fact the group of friends had attended an Afghan training camp together a year earlier.<ref name="lack3" /> Along with the others he was convicted of "providing support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization", and received a seven-year sentence.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90235086 "Member of 'Lackawanna Six' Released from Prison"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611033917/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90235086|date=2016-06-11}}, May 6, 2008, NPR.org</ref>
Galab was born to James Galab, a [[steelworker]] at [[Bethlehem Steel]] in Lackawanna, NY. Galab graduated from high school, married, and worked as a car salesman. Taher, Moseb and Galeb all decided to leave together after Sahim Alwan made it clear he wanted to return home and was unhappy with the tone of the camp.<ref name="lack3" />
=== Yahya Goba === '''Yahya Goba''' grew up in [[Lackawanna, New York|the suburbs of Buffalo, New York]]. In 2002, he was arrested and charged as part of the [[war on terror]] together with the other members of the "[[Lackawanna Six]]", based on the fact that he and a group of friends had attended an [[Afghan training camp]] together a year earlier.<ref name="lack3" />
When [[Kamal Derwish]] moved back to Lackawanna in 2000, he lived with his uncle until Goba volunteered to split an apartment with him. Derwish then began holding regular get-togethers at the apartment, where a group of upwards to 25 young Muslim men would get together to discuss religion and eat pizza. Goba and [[Jaber Elbaneh]] tended to "compete" for the attention and favour of Derwish, who spoke of his travels abroad and ostensible history fighting in Palestine. He applied for a new passport, noting that his old one had been destroyed after being thrown in the washing machine in a shirt pocket. Authorities believe and have averred that he was trying to erase incriminating visa stamps marking his overseas visits.<ref name="lack3" />
=== Shafal Mosed === Shafal Mosed who grew up in the suburbs of [[Buffalo, New York]]. In 2002, he was arrested and charged as part of the [[war on terror]] together with the other members of the "[[Lackawanna Six]]", based on the fact the group of friends had attended an Afghan training camp together a year earlier.<ref name="lack3" />
Born in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]], Mosed moved to Lackawanna as a child when his father's automotive job with [[Ford Motor Company]] was relocated to the Buffalo plant. When his father died of a heart attack, Mosed was left in charge of caring for his sickly mother and three younger siblings. The family lived in poverty, as Mosed worked as a [[telemarketer]] and took computer courses at the local [[community college]].Taher, Moseb and Galeb all decided to leave together after [[Sahim Alwan]] made it clear he wanted to return home and was unhappy with the tone of the camp. They were driven to [[Quetta]], and rather than wait a day for the next plane, took a bus to [[Karachi]] so they could leave Pakistan immediately.<ref name="lack3" />
=== Yaseinn Taher === '''Yaseinn Taher''' grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York. In 2002, he was arrested and charged under Title 18 of the US Code, together with the other members of the Lackawanna Six, based on the fact the group of friends had attended an Afghan training camp together a year earlier.<ref name="lack3" />
The Taher household was not considered devoutly Muslim, although they forbade their children to date, they also exchanged gifts for [[Christmas]] and weren't "regulars" at [[mosque]] worship services.<ref name="lack3" /> Taher was captain of the Lackawanna Steelers soccer team, and dated the cheerleader Nicole Frick, whose Catholic parents approved of him since he seemed "more white" than most Muslim-Americans living in the area.<ref name="lack3" />
In 1998, when Nicole informed him she was pregnant, the 18-year-old Taher arranged a hasty Islamic wedding in his parents' living room. Since Catholicism and Islam both allowed the marriage, on the basis that any children born to the union must be raised in ''their'' faith, Nicole and Taher argued over whether to raise "Noah" in the Catholic or Muslim faith. Taher subsequently became more religious, and began attending communal prayers every day, and discouraged provocative clothing and television. Nicole ostensibly converted to Islam after the birth of Noah, but still fought with Taher for increasing secularism.<ref name="lack3" />
Like his friends, Taher began attending regular get-togethers at the [[Wilkes Barre]] apartment of [[Kamal Derwish]], who had also grown up in the area, but had traveled overseas and spoke of fighting with the insurgency in [[Palestine]] and encouraged the friends to consider a Muslim's duty to defend the weak and innocent.<ref name="lack3" /> At one point, he disagreed with Derwish, noting that although [[jihad]] may be the correct path in Muslim nations attacked by outsiders, he could not support something like the [[USS Cole bombing]] which took place in Yemen, a country that had not been invaded.<ref name="lack3" />
Taher and six others traveled to Al Farooq training camp in [[Afghanistan]] in the spring and summer of 2001,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last1=Azia |first1=Roya |last2=Lam |first2=Monica |title=Sleeper Cell - Profiles - The Lackawanna Cell {{!}} Chasing The Sleeper Cell {{!}} FRONTLINE |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sleeper/inside/profiles.html |access-date=2019-05-14 |website=www.pbs.org}}</ref> weeks before the [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001]] terrorist attacks.<ref name="Staba">{{Cite news |last=Staba |first=David |date=2003-12-05 |title=Qaeda Trainee Is Sentenced To 8-Year Term |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/us/qaeda-trainee-is-sentenced-to-8-year-term.html |access-date=2019-05-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Six of the seven returned to the US<ref name=":0" /> including Taher, Moseb and Galeb. They decided to leave together after Sahim Alwan made it clear he wanted to return home and was unhappy with the tone of the camp. During questioning upon their return four of the six men said they were coming back to the US from attending religious seminars in Pakistan. None mentioned the trip to Afghanistan until Mukhtar al-Bakri was arrested in Bahrain and questioned by FBI agents on September 11, 2002.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=CNN.com - Sixth man charged in Buffalo terror probe - September 17, 2002 |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2002/LAW/09/16/buffalo.terror.arrests/index.html |access-date=2019-05-14 |website=CNN}}</ref>
Five of the Lackawanna Six were arrested in September 2002 and held in a federal detention center after several FBI raids in the Buffalo, New York suburb of Lackawanna. The five were Yahya Goba, Sahim Alwan, Shafal Mosed, Yasein Taher, and Faysal Galab. Mukhtar al-Bakri was arrested in Bahrain, brought to the US and charged with providing material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations, known as Title 18 of the US Code. The others were charged with the same violation of US law.<ref name=":1" />
In December 2003 Taher was sentenced to eight years in prison for supporting a terrorist organization. Taher, who was 25 years old at the time, pleaded guilty, admitting to attending the Farooq training camp run by Al Qaeda in the months leading up to the September 11 attacks. Taher and the other men admitted to training with weapons and explosives and doing guard duty at the camp. Each guilty plea could lead to a maximum ten-year sentence, but Taher's sentence was reduced for cooperating with federal officials, and for presenting letters of support from family members, as well as showing remorse.<ref name="Staba" />
==Associates== [[Jaber A. Elbaneh]], a close associate of the Lackawanna Six, never returned to the U.S. after his trip to Afghanistan. In September 2003, the FBI announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest. He escaped from a Yemeni prison, one of 23 people, 12 of them al-Qaeda members, who escaped on February 3, 2006. A few days later he was added to the [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists]] list.<ref name="fbi">{{cite web|title=FBI.gov |work=FBI national Press Release, Recent Escapees from Yemen prison added to Most Wanted Terrorists and Seeking Information – War On Terrorism Lists, February 23, 2006 |url=https://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel06/mwtl_yemen022306.htm |access-date=May 29, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524115116/http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel06/mwtl_yemen022306.htm |archive-date=May 24, 2006 }}</ref> On May 20, 2007, Elbaneh turned himself in to Yemen authorities on the condition that his prison sentence would not be extended.
[[Ahmed Hijazi (terrorist)|Ahmed Hijazi]] ''aka'' Jalal ''aka'' Kamal Derwish may have been the ringleader/recruiter of the Lackawanna Six,<ref name="cnn">{{cite news |work=CNN |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/11/12/yemen.blast.us |access-date=April 27, 2010 |date=November 12, 2002 |title=U.S. confirms death of man linked to alleged Buffalo terror cell |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205170319/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/11/12/yemen.blast.us/ |archive-date=February 5, 2008 }}</ref> and was sought after because investigators believed he could clarify the severity of the threat posed by them.<ref name="Suskind"/> Although not born in the U.S., he held U.S. citizenship. He was killed by a CIA [[RQ-1 Predator|Predator]] [[Unmanned combat aerial vehicle|drone]] in [[Yemen]] on November 3, 2002. The [[AGM-114 Hellfire|Hellfire]] [[targeted killing]] also killed five others in the same car - including a senior al-Qaeda leader, [[Abu Ali al-Harithi]] who is suspected of being involved in the planning of the October 2000 attack on the destroyer {{USS|Cole|DDG-67|6}}.<ref name=TheAge20021106> {{cite news | url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/05/1036308311314.html | title=US missiles kill al Qaeda suspects | date=November 6, 2002 | access-date=June 25, 2013 | first=Walter | last=Pincus | author-link=Walter Pincus | publisher=[[The Age]] | newspaper=Washington Post }}</ref>
==Trials== An anonymous voice message was being sent to households across Lackawanna, ostensibly from "BioFend", noting that "we believe that the goal of this [[terrorist cell]] was to detonate briefcase-sized [[dirty bomb]]s right here in [[Western New York]]". When then-Governor [[Eliot Spitzer]] had the company dissolved, it was still unclear whether the recordings were meant to lay the groundwork for a financial scam, or were an attempt to "taint the [[jury pool]]" by spreading untrue rumors suggesting there had been a violent plan in the works.<ref name="lack3" />
Though all six initially entered pleas of "not guilty", they all eventually pleaded guilty to "providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization." One of their defense lawyers suggested that they had been intimidated by threats of being declared [[enemy combatants]]. None of the six had been accused of planning or engaging in [[terrorist]] acts.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cole|first=David|title=As Sentencing in the Lackawanna 6 Case Begins, A U.S. Court Rejects Law That Criminalizes Unknowingly Supporting a Terrorist Organization|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2003/12/4/as_sentencing_in_the_lackawanna_6|publisher=Democracy Now|access-date=30 November 2012}}</ref>
==Guantanamo testimony== [[Image:Screenshot from the video of the USS Cole bombing.jpg|thumb|Three members of the Buffalo Six testified at Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul's Guantanamo military commission that they were shown this al-Qaeda produced video of the USS ''Cole'' bombing.]]
In late October 2008, three of the six men testified at the [[Guantanamo military commission]]'s review of [[Ali Hamza al Bahlul]] actions.<ref name=MiamiHerald2008-10-30> {{cite news |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/748638.html |title=Ex-U.S. jihadists testify at Guantánamo terror trial |publisher=[[Miami Herald]] |author=Carol Rosenberg |author-link=Carol Rosenberg |date=October 30, 2008 |access-date=October 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201008174032/https://www.webcitation.org/5byADB58u?url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/748638.html |archive-date=October 8, 2020 }} </ref>
==Proposed capture by United States Army troops== In July 2009, the media reported that local officials had suggested that [[United States Army|federal troops]] be used to capture the suspects, rather than sending in 130 federal and local members of the Western New York Joint Terrorism Task Force.<ref name="buffalo">{{cite news | last = Michel| first = Lou| title = Lackawanna officials say troops in city was bad idea| publisher = The Buffalo News| date = July 26, 2009| url =http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/744712.html| access-date =July 27, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729052135/http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/744712.html | url-status = dead| archive-date=July 29, 2009 }}</ref><ref name=Mwc2009-07-29> {{cite news | url=http://mwcnews.net/content/view/32179&Itemid=1 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20090729234208/http://mwcnews.net/content/view/32179&Itemid=1 | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 29, 2009 | title=Martial Law and the War on Terrorism | date=July 29, 2009 | author=James Bovard | publisher=[[Media with Conscience]] | access-date=July 29, 2009 }}</ref> At the time, Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] and Defense Secretary [[Donald Rumsfeld]] believed that the men should be declared [[enemy combatants]] and tried by a [[military tribunal]]. [[George W. Bush|President Bush]] rejected this proposal, and the arrests proceeded without incident; they were tried in criminal court.<ref name="buffalo" />
==See also== {{Portal|New York (state)}} *[[Detroit Sleeper Cell]] *[[2007 Fort Dix attack plot]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lackawanna-six-plead-not-guilty/ 'Lackawanna Six' Plead Not Guilty], ''[[CBS]]'', October 22, 2002 *[https://www.foxnews.com/story/final-buffalo-six-member-pleads-guilty Final 'Buffalo Six' Member Pleads Guilty], ''[[Fox News]]'', May 19, 2003 *[http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/20/buffalo.terror/ Buffalo terror suspect admits al Qaeda training], ''[[CNN]]'', May 20, 2003 *[https://www.foxnews.com/story/terror-cell-bail-hearing-continues Terror-Cell Bail Hearing Continues], ''[[Fox News]]'', May 20, 2003 *[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sleeper/ Frontline: Chasing the Sleeper Cell], ''[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]'' *[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sleeper/interviews/alwan.html An interview with Sahim Alwan], ''[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]'', July 24, 2003 *[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sleeper/inside/profiles.html Profiles of members], ''[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]'', October 16, 2003 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050206191027/http://www.myafghan.com/news2.asp?id=1947862795&search=12%2F5%2F2003 2nd member sentenced] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080708223340/http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terelbaneh.htm FBI Most Wanted Terrorists wanted poster for Elbaneh] *[http://sirianniart.com/ Courtroom drawings by Buffalo artist Ralph Sirianni]
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