Twenty-three suspected
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremism, Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arab, Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military ta ...
members escaped from a Yemen prison in 2006.
[
][
][
] The escape is notable because the escapees included several individuals imprisoned for their participation in the
USS ''Cole'' bombing.
Gaber Al-Bana’a was believed to be an American citizen, who traveled to an
Afghan training camp with some friends who became known as the ''
Lackawanna Six
The Buffalo Six (known primarily as Lackawanna Six, but also 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 havin ...
'' or ''Buffalo Six'', when they were rounded up as a "
sleeper cell".
The prisoners escaped through a 140-metre tunnel.
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]
Escapees
According to the ''Yemen Times
The ''Yemen Times'' was an independent English-language newspaper in Yemen. The paper was published twice weekly.
History and profile
''Yemen Times'' was founded in 1991 by Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, a leading economist and human rights activist, who ...
'' the escapees were:[
# Yaser Naser Al-Homikani
# Mohammed Sa’eed Al-Omda
# Fawzi Mohammed Al-Wajeh
# Zakria Hasen Al-Baihani
# Abudlrahman Ahmed Basora
# Abdullah Ahmed Al-Remi
# Fawaz Yahya Al-Rabe ai
# Hizam Saleh Mugli
# Gamal Mohammed Al-Badwi
#]Nasir al-Wuhayshi
Nasir Abdel Karim al-Wuhayshi ( ar, ناصر عبد الكريم الوحيشي'; also transliterated as Naser al-Wahishi, Nasser al-Wuhayshi) alias Abu Basir, (1 October 1976 – 12 June 2015) was a Yemeni Islamist, who served as the leader o ...
# Abdulrahman Ahmed Basurah
# Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Hoidi
# Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Mukri
# Aref Saleh Mugli
# Shafik Ahmed Zaid
# Gaber Al-Bana’a
# Hamza Salem Al-Kuaiti
# Omer Sa’eed Gar Allah
# Abdullah Yahya Al-Wa’adi
# Khaled Mohammed Al-Batati
# Kasem Yahya Al-Remi
# Mohammed Ahmed Al-Remi
# Mansour Naser al-Bahani
References
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Crime in Yemen
Law of Yemen
2006 crimes in Yemen
National security in Yemen
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...