Jaber A. Elbaneh
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Jaber Albaneh is wanted by the FBI for Providing Material Support to a Terrorist Organization; Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Terrorist Organization. | |
| Born | 6 September 1966 Yemen |
| Disappeared | 2008 Yemen |
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| Citizenship | Yemeni |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
Jaber A. Elbaneh, also known as Gabr al-Bana (Arabic: جبر البنا; born 9 September 1966) is a Yemeni-American who was labeled a suspected terrorist by the United States after it emerged that he had attended the Al Farouq training camp alongside the Lackawanna Six, and remained on at the camp after they returned home. He fled to Yemen, where he worked as a cab driver before turning himself in to authorities.
As Yemeni officials squabbled over his $US5 million reward, he escaped in a mass breakout along with a number of other high-profile prisoners, and was added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. When Yemen convicted him in absentia for conspiracy in a plot against oil facilities, he again turned himself in to the police, and served a 5-year sentence. He is related to Susan Elbaneh, the only American victim of a terrorist attack against the U.S. Embassy in Yemen in September 2008.