One of the FBI's most-sought terrorism suspects has surrendered to authorities in Yemen, more than a year after tunneling out of a prison there, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy said Monday. Jaber A. Elbaneh lived in Lackawanna, N.Y., before leaving to train at Osama bin Laden's al-Farooq training camp in Afghanistan in 2001, according to a federal indictment in Buffalo, N.Y.Six of his traveling companions — dubbed the "Lackawanna Six" — returned to the United States and were arrested in September 2002. All are serving sentences ranging from seven to 10 years after pleading guilty in 2003 to supporting terrorists.
Elbaneh never returned to the United States, authorities believe, traveling instead to his native Yemen to live with his wife and children.
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The FBI could not confirm that Elbaneh was in custody. "We certainly do hope he is caught," FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said Monday.