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Considering the several escapes and releases from Yemeni prisons, it might be a good thing to hand him over to the US, or keep him in hight security detention. I guess he is full of intel.
"Elbaneh's escape
A member of the Lackawanna Cell, Jaber A. Elbaneh, is still at large after joining a successful group prison break in Yemen. He was believed to have fled the United States, and become imprisoned in Yemen. Elbaneh was then named as one of 23 people, 12 of them Al-Qaeda members, who escaped from a Yemeni jail on February 3, 2006.
On February 23, 2006 the U.S. FBI confirmed the escape, as they issued a national Press Release naming Elbaneh as one of the first new additions, since inception in 2001, to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list.[3]"
Until and IF he ever gets to a US Jail this news does not mean much.
Now who is a better candidate for anthrax mailer? Elbaneh? Jdey? Elzahabi? Mohammed Junaid Babar? Can any of them be excluded? They all seem like fine candidates, each interesting for different reasons — connections to different players.
Elbaneh, as I recall, was connected to Khallad Attash, Bin Laden’s bodyguard who attended the January 2000 planning meeting. Also Derwish. He did not need to be present at the real estate closing on September 17, 2001 on his Buffalo home.
Jdey was part of KSM’s “second wave” and disappeared from Montreal about the time of the mailng. Is he in Turkey with his homely friend? Did he know El-Shukrijumah?
Elzahabi (the guy in Minneapolis) was coming from Ibn Khattab (Arab Chechen leader) in mid-August 2001 when he inexplicably beelined for Minneapolis and had not started his school bus job yet. He filled out the application on September 11, 2001. Ibn Khattab was killed by a poison letter in 2002. Elzahabi’s trial, I believe, has been greatly delayed and he’s pretty much been incomunicado.
Babar knew the folks in London , such as the one-eyed sheik Abu Hamza, and had arrived from Queens to Lahore by October 30, 2001. He later met Ayman’s chief aide al-Hadi. But the feds may even offer him witness protection and a new identity, and so they perhaps can exclude him based on his outbound flight. (He was the fellow from Queens filmed in Lahore on October 30 talking about killing Americans and noting that his mom had barely escaped from the 9th floor of the WTC, but hey, business is business.
Can any of these folks be excluded based on their known whereabouts on or about September 18, 2001 and about October 6-9, 2001?
The fact that the hijackers were “dead, dead, dead” to borrow Ed’s phrase has never been an impediment to an Al Qaeda theory. There has always been a wealth of Al Qaeda operatives going to and fro. The fact that the FBI was not talking about them at the time — or did not know of them yet — which is what Ed relied on rejecting an Al Qaeda theory.. .is to be expected.
The FBI kept quiet about Mohammed Junaid Babar meeting with al-Hadi, Zawahiri’s chief aide, until recently. (Al-Hadi was captured late last year and now is in Guantanamo).
But, more basic to the thread, why was there a $5 million reward offered for Elzahabi?
http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com
Being known as part of a group called the “Lackawanna Six” is punishment enough, I would reckon. How embarrassing.
yeah,
our elected officials probably should have sent him and his buddies home months ago......