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  CNN.com - Al Qaeda trainee gets 10-year sentence - Dec. 3, 2003
The six are shown in a courtroom sketch from a court appearance in September 2002.
The first of the six Yemeni-Americans from upstate New York who attended an al Qaeda training camp in 2001 was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for providing material support to a terrorist organization.
The main recruiter of the Lackawanna Six, a Saudi born in Buffalo named Kamal Derwish, was killed in November 2002 by a CIA-launched Predator missile attack on al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.
www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/12/03/buffalo.six   (592 words)

  
  CNN.com - Six men in Buffalo plead not guilty to terror charges - Oct. 22, 2002
The six suspects appear in sketch of previous court proceedings.
The six men were arraigned a day after a federal grand jury indicted them on two counts each of conspiracy to provide and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization.
The six are Muslims of Yemeni descent from Lackawanna, New York, near Buffalo.
archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/10/22/buffalo.terror.suspects   (569 words)

  
 BUFFALO SIX : Encyclopedia Entry
The Buffalo Six (also known as Lackawanna Six, Lakawanna Cell, or Buffalo Cell) is a group of six Yemeni-Americans who were convicted of providing material support to al-Qaeda.
They traveled to Afghanistan in spring 2001, before the September 11, 2001 attacks, while the country was still ruled by the Taliban, who were then giving sanctuary to Osama bin Laden, who in turn used it as a base for al-Qaeda training.
On September 14, 2002, the FBI held a press conference in Buffalo to announce the arrests of five of the local al-Qaeda suspects.
www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Buffalo_Six   (738 words)

  
 CNN.com - Fifth guilty plea expected in Buffalo terror case - May. 7, 2003
The six defendants are shown in a courtroom sketch from a September, 2002 court appearance.
Taher is part of a group that has come to be known as the "Lackawanna Six" or "Buffalo Six." Last September, they were charged with providing material support to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network by attending a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors suggest the Buffalo Six might have constituted a so-called "sleeper cell," possibly waiting for orders to carry out some future attack in the United States, though they concede there was no evidence of any such plan.
cnn.com /2003/LAW/05/07/buffalo.terror.cell   (366 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Where the buffalo fall: Montana resumes hunts
The state confines the buffalo to a narrow slice of land, and chases them back to the park by helicopter and snowmobile should they venture too close to the few nearby ranches with cattle.
His group shadows buffalo hunters, carrying recruiting brochures and objections — they oppose the hunt, arguing that it is "canned" because the buffalo in Montana are treated like domestic animals, confined to a few thousand acres.
Buffalo, also known as the American bison, are found throughout the West but mostly live on ranches and are largely descended from cross-breeding with cattle.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002810746_buffalo17.html   (1326 words)

  
 SI.com - 2005 NFL Football Preview - Buffalo Bills
Buffalo’s six-game win streak in 2004 was its longest since winning eight in a row in 1990, its first Super Bowl year.
During the second half of last season, the Buffalo Bills were scoring points in record numbers, shutting down opponents, and getting big plays from their special teams.
Buffalo's front office swallowed very hard, coming to the conclusion that its roster still wasn't good enough to contend with the likes of Super Bowl champ New England, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis in the rugged AFC.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/nfl/specials/preview/2005/teams/afce/buffalo_bills.html   (1733 words)

  
 Buffalo
Dense masses of buffalo still continued to darken the plains, and numerous bands of wolves hovered round the outskirts of the vast herds, singling out the sick and wounded animals, and preying upon the calves whom the rifles and arrows of the hunters had bereaved of their mothers.
The buffalo supplies the Indians with the necessities of life; with habitations, food, clothing, beds and fuel, strings for their bows, glue, thread, cordage, trail ropes for their horses, covering for their saddles, vessels to hold water, boats to cross streams, and the means of purchasing all they want from the traders.
The principal article of fuel found on the frontier for cooking the meat of the buffalo was the dried excrement of the animal, known in early Kansas and Nebraska parlance as "buffalo chips." The buffalo was one of the noblest of all animals.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWbuffalo.htm   (5727 words)

  
 NATURE: American Buffalo - Buffalo Nation
"When the buffalo roamed the plains in multitudes, he slaughtered only what he could eat and these he used to the hair and bones." Indeed, for thousands of years the huge bison herds were able to accommodate the loss of the relatively few animals taken by Native Americans.
Train companies offered tourists the chance to shoot buffalo from the windows of their coaches, pausing only when they ran out of ammunition or the gun's barrel became too hot.
One general believed that buffalo hunters "did more to defeat the Indian nations in a few years than soldiers did in 50." By 1880, the slaughter was almost over.
www.pbs.org /wnet/nature/buffalo/nation.html   (904 words)

  
 Buffalo Field Campaign Weekly Updates from the Field 2006/2007
Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers were in the field to witness all of these activities, as we are every day of the year when buffalo are outside the park.
If all goes according to plans, buffalo that survive the quarantine experiment, after four years of captivity, repeated testing, controlled breeding, vaccination, supplemental feed, and other tools of domestication would be touted as wild buffalo restored to their native range.
The solutions to restoring wild buffalo to their native range are rooted in the restoration of migratory corridors where buffalo can re-inhabit the ancient lands of their ancestors at their own time and pace.
www.buffalofieldcampaign.org /media/update0405/032405.html   (2174 words)

  
 Buffalo Nickel. Roadside Pet Cemetery
The Big Bull was killed and stuffed in 1886 (along with five lesser buffalo) by William T. Hornaday, "America's first taxidermist," so that he could preserve the species that had roamed the Plains by the hundreds of thousands until the white man killed and stuffed them.
In 1887, the six buffalo were put on exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution.
After 70 years (and, apparently, an influx of fresher buffalo), the six were shipped off to the University of Montana.
www.roadsideamerica.com /pet/nickel.html   (355 words)

  
 DefendAmerica News - Buffalo Joins Brigade Combat Team Arsenal
The 23-ton Buffalo is the most recent piece of equipment Operation Iraqi Freedom solders have to defeat improvised explosive devices.
The Buffalo is the most recent equipment to defeat improvised explosive devices and just like its name suggests, the 23-ton machine is made of monstrous proportions, and appears to be virtually unstoppable.
The Buffalo seats six, with the driver and operator at the front and the four remaining soldiers behind them designated for “eyes.” The crew is seated about 10 to 12 feet off of the ground and will also have access to an extra set of searchlights that are maneuvered from inside the vehicle.
www.defendamerica.mil /articles/mar2005/a032405cm1.html   (686 words)

  
 CNN.com - Buffalo terror suspect admits al Qaeda training - May. 20, 2003
And like the other members of the so-called "Buffalo Six," al-Bakri acknowledged he had known in advance where he was going and that, once he arrived, he heard Osama bin Laden speak and met privately with the al Qaeda leader.
At 23, al-Bakri is the youngest of the six Yemeni-Americans.
It has previously been revealed that the six men watched a movie at the guest house about the bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 U.S. sailors in a Yemeni port in October 2000.
www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/05/20/buffalo.terror   (947 words)

  
 Buffalo Soldiers - Who are the Buffalo Soldiers? African American Soldiers in American History. African Americans Who ...
However, the Buffalo Soldiers, comprised of former slaves, freemen and Black Civil War soldiers, were the first to serve during peacetime.
Buffalo Soldiers participated in many other military campaigns: The Spanish American War, The Philippine Insurrection, The Mexican Expedition, World War I, World War II, and the Korean Police Action.
However, the story of the Buffalo Soldiers remain one of unsurpassed courage and patriotism, and will be forever a significant part of the history of America.
www.buffalosoldiers.com   (995 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Six al-Qaeda suspects in Buffalo denied bail
BUFFALOSix suspected members of an al-Qaeda-trained terror cell in western New York are a danger to the community and should be held without bail, a prosecutor argued Wednesday.
Defense attorneys, claiming a lack of probable cause, moved to dismiss the charges and dismiss the government's request to detain the defendants.
Five of the men were arrested after a series of weekend raids in Lackawanna, five miles south of Buffalo.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002-09-17-buffalo_x.htm   (495 words)

  
 Six Sigma Companies.com - The Six Sigma Scoop on the Fortune 500 and Global 500
Proclaiming the desire to be a Six Sigma county as candidate Collins has done, only implied that he’ll start looking at processes from a business improvement perspective, using Six Sigma tools to do it.
A team of Raytheon Six Sigma(TM) experts used the Raytheon Six Sigma process to validate and prioritize issues, determine root causes of barriers and identify and document optimal system changes and implementation actions required to truly remove barriers for people with disabilities to be competitively employed.
Six Sigma Guy learns the eight wastes of lean from his co-worker as TO WISDOM and an article from the Lean Mining Network suggests WORMPIT as a way to remember the wastes.
www.sixsigmacompanies.com   (1738 words)

  
 Civil Liberties -- Post-9/11, CBSNews.com Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen On the 'Buffalo 6' - CBS News
If the men and women who ultimately judge the Buffalo Six rule likewise, the men very well could be found guilty of the crimes with which they have been charged.
Because the Buffalo Six, like Lindh, may have been at the wrong place at the wrong time, dancing the wrong dance with the wrong people.
Now, you can argue, as the Buffalo defendants already have or will, that Judge Ellis' interpretation of the law is too broad; that the statute never was intended by Congress to include "training" or even a defendant's mere presence at a terror training camp.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/09/20/opinion/courtwatch/printable522847.shtml   (1117 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - First of 'Buffalo Six' Sentenced to 10 Years - U.S. & World
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Yemeni-American man who attended an Al Qaeda (search) training camp and met with Usama bin Laden (search) shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday.
Mukhtar al-Bakri (search), 23, was the first defendant to be sentenced in the Lackawanna Six case that has been held up by the Bush administration as a model in pursuing and prosecuting terrorism suspects.
Unlike his co-defendants, who were arrested in Lackawanna and Buffalo, al-Bakri was taken into custody in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain on Sept. 10, 2002, a day after his wedding.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,104729,00.html   (1047 words)

  
 WNYMedia.net :: Buffalo Geek
The New Millennium Group, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, Congress for New Urbanism and other civic groups are advocating for an alternative to the currently approved NYSDOT plan to improve Route 5 along Buffalo’s Outer Harbor.
Let us dispense with what Six Sigma is and what it is not…and we’ll move on to the implementation of business principles in government.
Gabe has written an excellent analysis as to the multitude of reasons that retail in Downtown Buffalo has essentially ceased to exist and will not be on its way back any time soon.
buffalogeek.wnymedia.net   (2071 words)

  
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the Buffalo Six) was a cell of al Qaeda terrorists of Yemeni heritage arrested in Lackawanna, New York, near Buffalo, in September 2002.
American citizens by birth, all six are natives of Lackawanna and its community of approximately 3,000 Yemeni Muslims.
The members of the Lackawanna Six were Muktar Al-Bakri, Sahim A. Alwan, Faysal Galab, Yahya A. Goba, Shafal Mosed, and Yasein Taher.
www.discoverthenetworks.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6266   (234 words)

  
 Six Flags - Investor Relations - Financial Release
The properties are: Six Flags Darien Lake (outside Buffalo, New York); Six Flags Waterworld (Concord, California); Six Flags Elitch Gardens (Denver, Colorado); Wild Waves and Enchanted Village (outside Seattle, Washington); Six Flags Splashtown (Houston, Texas); and Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor (near Los Angeles, California).
Although Six Flags believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct.
SIX FLAGS and all related indicia are trademarks of Six Flags Theme Parks Inc. ®, T and © 2007.
investors.sixflags.com /phoenix.zhtml?c=61629&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=875468&highlight=   (1186 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Who's Who among American Terrorists by Henry Mark Holzer
Six men in Lackawanna, New York (the “Buffalo Six”) were arrested in the United States.
Although there is an understandable tendency to apply the Padilla analysis to the Buffalo Six and the Portland Six (neither Walker nor Hamdi are applicable because the Six were not captured abroad fighting for our enemy), the dirty bomber and the latter two cases are quite different.
At most, as in the Portland Six case, even without the terrorist training the Buffalo Six underwent in Afghanistan, if there is an agreement to train and to then fight Americans, it now appears that the government may be disposed to indict for conspiracy to levy war.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3931   (1530 words)

  
 Visit Buffalo Niagara - Visitor Information
Climb the small observation tower for a picturesque 360-degree view of grain elevators (a Buffalo invention) on the placid Buffalo River, an 1833 lighthouse, and the final expanse of Lake Erie as it narrows to become the Niagara River.
Buffalo is at the confluence of Lake Erie and the Niagara River, 400 miles northwest of New York City and 100 miles southwest of Toronto.
The Hyatt Regency Buffalo (2 Fountain Plaza, 716-856-1234) is built in and around a 1923 downtown office building, with part of the original marble and iron facade preserved in the lobby.
www.buffalocvb.org /nytimes_081304.html   (1323 words)

  
 WBFO 88.7 Buffalo
BUFFALO, NY (2002-09-27) Federal authorities may be investigating the possibility that the Lackawanna men suspected of being part of an al-Qaida terrorist cell might have had advance knowledge of the September 11 attacks.
BUFFALO, NY (2002-09-17) The Buffalo News is reporting that a former Lackawanna man is the suspected ringleader of the alleged terror cell that's was broken up over the weekend.
Buffalo Area Remembers 9/11 BUFFALO, NY (2002-09-12) All across Western New York ceremonies, dedications, musical tributes and healing services were held yesterday to remember those who died in the devastating attack on America last September 11th.
www.wbfo.org /news/news0209.php3   (3501 words)

  
 Chiangmai, Thailand : Buffalo Training Camp
Situated on approximately 21 rai of farm land, Mae Rim Buffalo Training Camp enjoys magnificent views of the scenic Doi Suthep mountains, and is the perfect place to experience the atmosphere of Thai country life of years ago, as you watch farmers and buffalo working the fields in traditional style.
The aim of Mae Rim Buffalo Training Camp is to preserve the traditional way of life of the Thai farmer and the buffalo.
The buffalo handler is usually introduced to his animal at an early age and over the years, as they grow older, a bond is formed.
www.chiangmai-thai.com /buffalo.htm   (981 words)

  
 Feds Arrest Three 'Buffalo Six' Relatives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Three relatives of a man accused of belonging to an al-Qaida terror cell in the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna were arrested Tuesday and charged with illegally operating a money transferring business.
Six other men from Lackawanna, all Yemeni-American men in their 20s, were arrested in September and charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
The six men now in custody could get up to 15 years in prison if convicted under a 1996 law that prohibits giving support to foreign terrorist organizations.
www.islamicsupremecouncil.org /CMS/Topics/Leaders/1218951392002.htm   (524 words)

  
 Buffalo of South Dakota Unit 3 Lesson 3
In the 1800s, millions of buffalo were killed by Indians and non-Indians.
By 1914, there were four hundred buffalo on his ranch.
Fourteen buffalo came to Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota.
www.sd4history.com /Unit3/buffalolesson3.htm   (183 words)

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