By Douglas J. Hagmann
Monday, June 26, 2006Mohamed T. aLBaNNa, 167 Lehigh Street, Lackawanna, NY. a prominent member of Lackawanna's Yemeni community and vocal proponent of the innocence of the "Lackawanna-Six," along with two of his relatives admitted in U.S. District Court last Friday that they ran an unlicensed money-transfer business.
--Guilty of operating illegal money transfer business: More than $6.7 million was actually sent from Buffalo to Yemen between 1999 and 2002, according to government investigators
--Yemeni cleric from New York City, Sheikh Mohammed ali Hassan al-Moayad, sentenced to 75 years in prison for conspiring to support al-Qaeda and HaMaS, received funds funneled through albanna's business. The sender: Former Lackawanna Imam abdulwahab Ziad.
--"Lackawanna Six terrorist cell" member Yaya Goba was scheduled to testify that he used albanna's money transfer business to send money to Kamal Derwish, an al-Qaeda operative killed by a CIa missile strike in 2002 in Yemen.
--Court records indicate Mohamed T. albanna and Queen City Cigarettes & Candy still defendants in the One-Trillion Dollar civil suit filed by some family members of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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