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A search for answers in the case against the Lackawanna SixBy Mark Sommer NEWS BOOK REVIEWER Updated: 09/09/07 6:29 AM The arraignment of the Lackawanna Six attracted national attention. Derek Gee/Buffalo News It was five years ago today that police apprehended the first member of what was quickly dubbed the Lackawanna Six. Headlines blared far beyond Western New York, as news stories raised the specter of homegrown terrorists training with al-Qaida in southern Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden, it would later be revealed, was present, too. President Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller quickly proclaimed the Lackawanna...

FBI Charges 7th N.Y. Terror Cell Suspect Email this Story May 21, 3:55 PM (ET) (AP) Jaber A. Elbaneh, 36, of Lackawanna, N.Y., is shown in these two photos released by the FBI... Full Image BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A seventh man was charged Wednesday with participating in a terrorist "sleeper" cell based in upstate New York by attending an al-Qaida training camp run by Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks. An FBI criminal complaint charged Jaber Elbaneh, 36, with conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. Elbaneh is believed to be abroad,...

<p>BUFFALO (AP) — A New York man accused of attending an al-Qaeda training camp recounted his one-on-one meeting with Osama bin Laden in court documents defense attorneys hope will fend off prosecutors' attempts to keep him jailed for failing to disclose the encounter earlier.</p>

John Walker Lindh John Walker Lindh had a key role in busting an alleged Buffalo-area terror cell, helping the FBI connect its members to an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, the Daily News has learned. A source told The News that Lindh - who agreed to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a lighter sentence on terror-related charges - was asked about the alleged terrorist cell in upstate Lackawanna after authorities ran into a dead end. The FBI had gotten a letter in June 2001 from a "concerned Yemenite" alleging that eight U.S. citizens of Yemeni descent were...

ACKAWANNA, N.Y., Sept 15 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a sixth man of Yemeni descent, family and friends said here tonight, in addition to the five young American citizens charged Saturday with providing "material support" for Qaeda terrorists.The new suspect, whose family said he was arrested in the Gulf emirate of Bahrain as he prepared for his arranged marriage there, was identified as Mukhtar al-Bakri, who lived near the other young men in the Yemeni community of this fading steel town. A federal official confirmed that a sixth arrest had been made and said it was...

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