Jaber A. Elbaneh
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Jaber A. Elbaneh (Arabic: جابر البانة) (born: September 9, 1966) is a Yemeni who was added as a fugitive to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list, having been indicted with a federal criminal complaint unsealed on May 21, 2003, in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Buffalo, New York. He is charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization and conspiring to provide material support, specifically to al-Qaeda. [1]
He has worked as a salesman and a taxi driver.
He has been associated with the Buffalo Six domestic terrorist cell (also known as the Lackawanna Six, Lakawanna Cell, or Buffalo Cell), a group of six Yemeni-Americans from Lackawanna, New York (near Buffalo) who were convicted of providing material support to al-Qaeda. The six are American citizens by birth.
The Lackawanna Six had traveled to Afghanistan to what later became known in the American media as the "al-Farooq terrorist training camp." [2]
The six were arrested in Lackawanna, New York, near Buffalo, New York in September 2002 after four to eight months of investigations. Investigators found a cassette tape that when played, "asks Allah to give Jews and their enablers (U.S.) a black day." [2]
The located six pleaded guilty in court to terrorism related charges. Elbaneh was believed to have fled the United States and is still thought to be outside the country.
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[edit] Escape and Most Wanted Terrorist fugitive
He next seems to have become imprisoned in Yemen. By June 2003, Elbaneh had been added to the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list [3]
Elbaneh was named as one of 23 people, 12 of them al-Qaeda members, who escaped from a Yemeni jail on February 3, 2006, according to a BBC report. [4]
On February 23, 2006 the U.S. FBI confirmed the escape, as they issued a national Press Release naming Elbaneh as one of the escapees, and also as one of the first new additions, since inception in 2001, to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. [5]
He appeared on the FBI list with three photos on his wanted poster under the name Jaber A. Elbaneh.
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[edit] References
- ^ FBI Most Wanted Terrorists wanted poster for Elbaneh
- ^ a b coldtype.net. Is the Buffalo, NY terrorist cell for real? (pdf), December 14, 2003. Retrieved on May 29, 2006.
- ^ FBI Seeking Information, War on Terrorism list archive, Internet Archive Wayback Machine, June 3, 2003
- ^ Hunt on for Yemeni jailbreakers, BBC, February 4, 2006
- ^ RECENT ESCAPEES FROM YEMEN PRISON ADDED TO MOST WANTED TERRORISTS AND SEEKING INFORMATION - WAR ON TERRORISM LISTS, FBI national Press Release, February 23, 2006
[edit] External links
- 'Lackawanna Six' Plead Not Guilty, CBS, October 22, 2002
- Final 'Buffalo Six' Member Pleads Guilty, FOX News, May 19, 2003
- Buffalo terror suspect admits al Qaeda training, CNN, May 20, 2003
- Terror-Cell Bail Hearing Continues, FOX News, May 20, 2003
- Frontline: Chasing the Sleeper Cell, PBS
- An interview with Sahim Alwan, PBS, July 24, 2003
- Profiles of members, PBS, October 16, 2003
- 2nd member sentenced
