[Did anyone notice the Fox news commentator who referred to the suspects as the "Buffalo wing" of the Al Queda? BWahahahahaha!]

Nab sixth in link to Buffalo 5 Busted in Bahrain, he’s in upstate jail By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY in Lackawanna, N.Y. and DAVE GOLDINER in New York DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS A sixth member of a suspected Al Qaeda "sleeper" cell in suburban Buffalo has been arrested in Bahrain and spirited to a federal prison in upstate New York, according to a Muslim community leader. The suspect, Mukhtar al-Bakri, once lived in Lackawanna near the five suspected terrorists who were charged Saturday with aiding Osama Bin Laden's terror network, said Dr. Khalid Qazi, head of the Buffalo-area chapter of the American Muslim Council.

"The FBI has been saying there are three more individuals they are looking for and he's one of them," Qazi said.

Qazi said he learned of the arrest from federal law enforcement officials. He said al-Bakri is being held at a detention center in Batavia. Federal officials were expected to announce the sixth arrest today.

The arrest came as authorities were investigating whether the suspected cell had links to similar groups of alleged sleeper terrorists busted in Detroit and Seattle, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.

Buffalo U.S. Attorney Michael Battle said the five men busted in Lackawanna and the other sleeper groups apparently were waiting for instructions from Al Qaeda to launch terror attacks inside the U.S.

"There are at least two other similar investigations, one in Detroit and one in Seattle, which has recently been concluded, that show similar type activity," Battle, the top federal prosecutor in upstate New York, told CNN.

Prosecutors took the rare step of releasing photos of the Lackawanna suspects in hopes of spurring tips about the men's activities.

More dangerous

Police are hunting for any links to American Muslim activist James Ujaama, charged last month with plotting to set up an Al Qaeda training camp in Oregon, or with a group of Arab-Americans in Detroit charged with planning attacks here and abroad.

Battle said the home-grown suspected sleepers are potentially more dangerous than the Sept. 11 hijackers, who were from various Arab countries, because the cell suspects have freedom to travel freely within and outside the U.S.

The number of cells also provides a chilling clue about the ability of the terror network to infiltrate American society and, Battle said, "tells us a little bit more about what's going on in our country."

The Lackawanna Five, all of Yemeni descent, are due back in court Wednesday to answer charges they provided material support to Al Qaeda.

The men, who worshiped at the same mosque, allegedly journeyed to one of Bin Laden's terror camps in Afghanistan for training around the time American Taliban John Walker Lindh was there. They returned in early summer 2001, which is when the feds began investigating them, Battle said, although there is no proof any of them knew of the terror plot beforehand.

Meanwhile, a published report said a top Al Qaeda suspect confessed last week to planning a string of terror attacks against American targets in Asia.

Omar al-Faruq, captured in Indonesia in June, told American interrogators at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan that he plotted simultaneous car or truck bombings at U.S. embassies around the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Time magazine reports in this week's issue.

-- Anonymous, September 16, 2002