How does an American soccer jock become a radical jihadist terrorist? The Lackawanna Six were arrested in September of 2002 outside of Buffalo, New York and characterized as an Al Qaeda sleeper cell . NPR FBI correspondent Dina Temple-Raston says that description is false. She spent three years working on her latest book, The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror. The six twenty-somethings did make it all the way to Afghanistan to a jihadist training camp. Still, Temple-Raston describes them as friendly, popular, integrated young Yemeni-American men who accidentally dabbled in something bigger than they ever dreamed. Temple-Raston spoke at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle on November 17th, 2007.
