Lackawanna Six

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 2001 (before 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan). The suspects were facing likely convictions with steeper sentences under the material support of terrorist organizations federal statutes.

The six defendants were all born American citizens and were friends from childhood. The defendants were:

  • Sanjar Hussein
  • Mukhtar al-Bakri
  • Faysal Galab
  • Arbab Seecharan
  • Meheraan Khan
  • Naimul Mozumder
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