• 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 March 1976, Faysal Galab 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 Galab 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, Yahya A. Goba, 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 January 2003 Galab pleaded guilty to “contributing funds and services to specially designated terrorists” and was sentenced to seven years in prison.