Word: lackawanna
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...Saturday night screening of the HBO film Lackawanna Blues served as a springboard for a discussion on how to pursue one’s passions at Harvard Law School’s (HLS) first-ever “Live Your Dream” event...
...Lackawanna Six Sept. 13, 2002 From upstate New York, these men were accused of traveling to Afghanistan in May 2001 to train with al-Qaeda Afraid of being designated enemy combatants, all six pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists and were given prison sentences ranging from seven to 10 years...
Love makes the world go round, but it can also send drama spiraling right down the drain. The recollection of someone loved too well and too uncritically can bury a filmed memoir in Hallmark emotion. Writer-actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson courts this danger in the autobiographical Lackawanna Blues (HBO, Feb. 12, 8 p.m. E.T.) and escapes--barely...
...arrests of six members of an alleged al Qaeda cell in Lackawanna, NY in Sept. 2002 indicates that bin Laden’s organization maintained clandestine operatives in the country after the Sept. 11 attacks. Furthermore, the Associated Press reported that the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—an important al Qaeda operational planner captured in March—produced evidence that bin Laden himself was responsible for managing the tactical scale of the attacks. Taken together, this information suggests that al Qaeda had the operational sophistication, the opportunity and the in-place assets to plan and execute broader...
...thought to be riding along with five other people, including an American citizen. The American, believed to be Kamal Derwish, was later described by Administration officials as the leader of an alleged al- Qaeda sleeper cell in New York State. The officials said he persuaded young men from Lackawanna, N.Y., a Buffalo suburb, to travel to Afghanistan for religious studies at locations that turned out to be terrorist training camps. Six members of the group were arrested last September and charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist group...