U.S. Terrorism Suspect May Be Among Escapees
From Times Wire Reports
An American charged with being part of an Al Qaeda cell in New York was probably among 23 men who escaped from a Yemeni prison last week, an FBI official said.
Jaber Elbaneh, 39, was charged in 2002 with participating in a sleeper cell based in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb of Lackawanna and attending an Al Qaeda training camp before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Elbaneh, who was born in Yemen, was arrested there in 2003.
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