How It's Used

“Mr. Alwan returned home, and three months later, on Sept. 11, all Mr. bin Laden's hints came clear, when 19 hijackers carried their souls in their hands. In the aftermath, the case of 'The Lackawanna Six' became a showpiece for the Bush administration's war on terror.
“‘We've broken Al Qaeda cells in Hamburg, London, Paris, as well as Buffalo, N.Y.,' President Bush declared in his State of the Union address last January. And in July, the team that cracked the case won the Justice Department's top award from Attorney General John Ashcroft, who has said the arrests 'sent an unambiguous message that we will track down terrorists wherever they hide.’”

—Matthew Purdy and Lowell Bergman, “Unclear Danger:  Inside the Lackawanna Terror Case,” The New York Times, October 12, 2003.

Also Known As (AKA)

The Buffalo Six, the Lackawanna Cell, or the Buffalo Cell)

Links

Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on the Lackawanna Six