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Lackawanna, NY ?good boy? in custody in Yemen

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By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director 22 January 2010: Jaber A. ELBANEH, 43 year-old former resident of the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna ,NY and one of the leaders of the ?Lackawanna Six? group of young Yemeni terrorists is reportedly in custody again in Yemen, according to officials. In the spirit of cooperation with the Holder Justice Department and the Obama administration, he now wants to ?lawyer up,? perhaps taking cues from 23-year-old Nigerian native Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Muslim terrorist who attempted to blow Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from the sky on Christmas Day. Abdulmutallab, who was reportedly trained in Yemen by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was read his rights and granted access to a lawyer. ELABNEH was indicted in absentia in a federal criminal complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Buffalo, New York, charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization and conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).