Buffalo Six

Buffalo, NY shown in orange. Lackawanna is a small city, adjacent to Buffalo to the south. On the west are Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Niagara River, and the Province of Ontario, Canada.

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]

  1. ^ https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R41333 [bare URL]
  2. ^ Temple-Raston, Dina. The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror, 2007