The Lackawanna Six (also known as the Lackawanna Cell, or Buffalo Cell) is a group of six Yemeni-American friends who pled guilty to charges of providing material support to al-Qaeda in December 2003, based on their having attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan together in the Spring of 2001 (before 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan).[citation needed] The suspects were facing likely convictions with steeper sentences under the "material support law".[1]
Friends from childhood, all six were born American citizens.[2]