Word: lackawanna
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...level of cooperation is much better," says a U.S. intelligence official. The swapping of tips helped the FBI pull off two of the year's biggest arrests: the capture of dirty-bomb suspect Jose Padilla in May and the September bust of five suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Lackawanna...
...Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen. He was not just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., outside Buffalo. The putative American in al-Harethi's entourage traveled under the name Ahmed Hijazi, an alias used by Derwish. A positive identification may be difficult: the 5-ft.-long Hellfire turned the six people in the car into a mass of carbonized body parts. "They never knew they...
...revealing that most of the Lackawanna Six, accused of being al-Qaeda members, are unemployed underachievers whose loyalty to their country is ambiguous at best, given their religious extremism. Like these disaffected alleged terrorists, many people who live in the Arab world have been on the unemployment line for years. Arab jealousy of Western success and power is the root of the recent terrorism. RICHARD L. JOHNSON College Station, Texas...
...cops notified the Buffalo FBI, and Peter Ahearn, special agent in charge, put the entire Buffalo Joint Terrorism Task Force on the case. By analyzing travel and Customs records, conducting interviews and doing old-fashioned surveillance, investigators zeroed in on five young Muslims in the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna--all U.S.-born Yemenis--and three Yemeni-American men outside the U.S., identified only as co-conspirators...
...assault and long-range rifles and handguns, and A received heavy-artillery training. Osama bin Laden allegedly spoke to the campers. (John Walker Lindh was at al-Farooq at the same time, but officials declined to say whether he assisted with the investigation.) Once C cracked, agents in Lackawanna confronted Alwan, who confessed and said the five Buffalo suspects had traveled to Afghanistan in two separate groups that spring...