• Member of the New York-based al Qaeda cell, the Buffalo Six
• Trained at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan
• Sentenced to ten years in prison for providing support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization

Born in January 1977, Yahya Goba was a member of a cell of al Qaeda terrorists based in Lackawanna, New York (near Buffalo).  The cell is commonly known as the Buffalo Six or Lackawanna Six. All of its members were recruited by Kamal Derwish and hailed from a community of approximately 3,000 Yemeni Muslim residents of Lackawanna.

In 2001 Goba traveled to Afghanistan where he visited the Al-Farooq al Qaeda training camp near Kandahar and was schooled in the use of weapons; he was present on one occasion when Osama bin Laden visited the camp and addressed its trainees.

The other members of the Lackawanna Six were Mukhtar Al-Bakri, Sahim A. Alwan, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, and Yasein Taher. A suspected seventh cell member, Jaber Elbaneh (a U.S. citizen born in September 1966) remains at large and is believed to be hiding in Yemen.

In March 2003 Goba pleaded guilty to "providing support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization" and was sentenced to ten years in prison.