Prison escapee on FBI list surrenders
A Yemeni American who was on the FBI’s list of 26 most wanted terrorism suspects has surrendered after tunneling out of a Yemeni prison with other convicted Al Qaeda members last year, authorities said.
Jaber Elbaneh, 40, and another escapee turned themselves in recently, said Interior Minister Rashid Alimi. Elbaneh, a U.S. citizen of Yemeni origin, is wanted on a 2002 charge of providing material support to a terrorist organization -- a suspected Al Qaeda cell based in Lackawanna, N.Y., outside Buffalo. The State Department in 2003 offered a reward of up to $5 million for his capture.
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