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- 1 2 3 Temple-Raston, Dina (2007). The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror . New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1586484033.
- ↑ "Member of 'Lackawanna Six' Released from Prison" Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine , May 6, 2008, NPR.org
