LEADING AMERICAN TERRORIST ARRESTED IN YEMEN

Posted on January 27, 2010 thelastcrusade

Plotter of the American Hiroshima

Leader of the “Lackawanna Six”

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An American Muslim accused of helping recruit men known as the “Lackawanna Six” to train at an al-Qaeda terrorist camp and of planning a massive attack on U.S. soil has been taken into custody again in his native Yemen.

Jaber Elbaneh has asked for a lawyer to defend him against charges he’s faced in Western New York since 2002. Federal authorities accuse Elbaneh of recruiting the Lackawanna Six, and bringing them to an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 2001. They also maintain that he was engaged with Adnan el-Shukrijumah in planning a nuclear attack on American soil.

According to The Washington Times and other news sources, Mr. Elbaneh was on the campus of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and may have gained access to the University’s nuclear reactor, which is one of the largest reactors for educational purposes in the western hemisphere.

Scott Wheeler and other reputable reporters have claimed that Mr. Elbaneh and four other Muslim men on the McMaster campus allegedly stole 180 pounds of nuclear material from McMaster.

The 43-year-old Yemeni-American is on the FBI’s list of most-wanted terrorism suspects. He had been held several times by Yemeni officials since being charged in the U.S.

The two countries do not share an extradition treaty.

“We would like to get him back here in the United States for prosecution,” said James Robertson, the Special Agent-in-Charge of Buffalo’s F.B.I. Office. “He’s on our top 28 Most Wanted Terrorists Lists. I think there’s a five million dollar reward out for him. It’s a matter of high interest to the United States Government.”

Elbaneh was previously in custody in Yemen before escaping from a prison with nearly two dozen suspected terrorists in February of 2006.

The U.S. has ramped up anti-terrorism efforts in Yemen since before a Nigerian man, with ties to al-Qaeda, allegedly trained there to bomb a jetliner near Detroit on Christmas day.