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Lackawanna Six

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Three members of the Lackawanna 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]].

The Lackawanna Six (alternately the Buffalo Six) were six Muslim men from Lackawanna, New York, who decided to travel together to a camp where there could get some paramilitary training. They testified that they only intended to get trained to honor the obligation some Muslims feel to be able to defend Islam, and that this was not due to their being dangerous militants.

However, the camp they ended up at was the now famous farouq training camp, run by Al Qaeda. They described the actual training as unpleasant, and being subjected to anti-American propaganda, also unpleasant.

The six men decided not to tell the FBI about their trip, and pretend it never happened.

However, when one of the men went to Yeemen, to get married, and sent his friends a message about the "big feast", at his wedding, American counter-terrorism officials leaped to the conclusion this was a coded message, signalling a terrorist attack. They had Yemeni counter-terrorism officials arrest him, -- at his wedding, as there was no hidden meaning. He was, in fact getting married.

The groom, and his friends, were widely characterized as a "sleeper cell". They were arrested, and charged with providing material support for terrorism. They were tried and convicted, based on their attendance at the camp.

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  1. ↑ "Terrorist Material Support: An Overview of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A and § 2339B". 1997 Version of the United States Attorneys' Manual (USAM) (Criminal Resource Manual 1-499). 15 August 2023 – via US Department of Justice Archives.
  2. ↑ Temple-Raston, Dina (2007). The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1586484033.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Edward F. Mickolus; Susan L. Simmons (12 January 2011). The Terrorist List. ABC-CLIO. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-313-37472-2. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "coldtype.net" (PDF). Is the Buffalo, NY terrorist cell for real? (pdf), December 14, 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2006.
  5. ↑ Suskind, R. The One Percent Doctrine'
  6. ↑ "Sahim Alwan Sentenced for Providing Material Support to Al Qaeda " Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine, December 17, 2003, FBI.gov
  7. ↑ "Mukhtar al Bakri". Global Security. Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  8. ↑ "How Great a Threat Were the Lackawanna Six?". NPR. 10 September 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  9. ↑ "Member of 'Lackawanna Six' Released from Prison" Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine, May 6, 2008, NPR.org
  10. ↑ Azia, Roya; Lam, Monica. "Sleeper Cell - Profiles - The Lackawanna Cell | Chasing The Sleeper Cell | FRONTLINE". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  11. ↑ Staba, David (2003-12-05). "Qaeda Trainee Is Sentenced To 8-Year Term". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  12. ↑ "CNN.com - Sixth man charged in Buffalo terror probe - September 17, 2002". CNN. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  13. ↑ "FBI.gov". FBI national Press Release, Recent Escapees from Yemen prison added to Most Wanted Terrorists and Seeking Information – War On Terrorism Lists, February 23, 2006. Archived from the original on May 24, 2006. Retrieved May 29, 2006.
  14. ↑ "U.S. confirms death of man linked to alleged Buffalo terror cell". CNN. November 12, 2002. Archived from the original on February 5, 2008. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
  15. ↑ Pincus, Walter (November 6, 2002). "US missiles kill al Qaeda suspects". Washington Post. The Age. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  16. ↑ Cole, David. "As Sentencing in the Lackawanna 6 Case Begins, A U.S. Court Rejects Law That Criminalizes Unknowingly Supporting a Terrorist Organization". Democracy Now. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  17. ↑ Carol Rosenberg (October 30, 2008). "Ex-U.S. jihadists testify at Guantánamo terror trial". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on October 8, 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2008.
  18. ↑ Michel, Lou (July 26, 2009). "Lackawanna officials say troops in city was bad idea". The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on July 29, 2009. Retrieved July 27, 2009.
  19. ↑ James Bovard (July 29, 2009). "Martial Law and the War on Terrorism". Media with Conscience. Archived from the original on July 29, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2009.
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