The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of TerrorThey called themselves the Arabian Knights. They were six Yemeni-American friends, a gang of high-school soccer stars, a band of brothers on the grim side streets of Lackawanna's First Ward, just a stone's throw from Buffalo. Later, people would argue about why they left western New York in the spring of 2001 to attend an al-Qaeda camp. Some said they traveled to Afghanistan to become America's first sleeper cell—terrorists slumbering while they awaited orders from on high. Others said that their ill-fated trip was a lark, an adventurous extension of their youthful wrestling with what it meant to be Muslim in America. Dina Temple-Raston returns to Lackawanna to tell the story of a group of young men—born and brought up in small town America—who left otherwise unremarkable lives to attend an al-Qaeda camp. Though they sought to quietly slip back into their roles as middle class Americans, the 9/11 attacks made that impossible. The Jihad Next Door is the story of pre-emptive justice in the age of terror. It follows a handful of ordinary men through an extraordinary time when Muslims in America are often instantly suspect, their actions often viewed through the most sinister lens. |
Contents
Mukhtars Big Wedding | 1 |
The Curse of McKinley | 11 |
Ward Rats | 21 |
The Search for Clarity | 33 |
God Rewards Those Who Fight | 47 |
Of Mullahs and Madrassas | 65 |
The Closer | 81 |
Take Your Souls in Your Hands | 95 |
Fitting Profiles | 159 |
A Conspiracy of Silence | 175 |
A Time of Fire | 195 |
Ideological Detonators | 211 |
Bills Fans or Jihadists? | 243 |
Banging the Drums of War | 251 |
Notes on Sources | 255 |
Acknowledgments | 271 |
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