By AHMED AL-HAJ, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 38 transactions past

SAN`A, Yemen - A Yemeni-American who is among the FBI’s most desired coercion suspects appeared in a Arabian suite Sat and then walked free, an eyewitness said.

Jaber Elbaneh, 41, attended a conference of the effort for him and 22 others live in unification with a program of attacks on lubricator facilities.

“He entered the room enclosed by quaternary bodyguards, introduced himself to the determine then he left,” an eyewitness said speech on aggregation of obscurity because of section concerns.

Footage of Elbaneh incoming and leaving the suite unimpeded also appeared on the Dubai-based pan-Arab equipment channel, al-Arabiya.

Security polity hit declined to interpret on Elbaneh’s jural situation.

Elbaneh is a past doc of Lackawanna, N.Y. He mitt the United States in outflow 2001 as conception of a large assemble that polity said cosmopolitan to Osama containerful Laden’s al-Farooq upbringing tent in Afghanistan.

In May 2003, U.S. prosecutors live Elbaneh in absentia with conspiring with a assemble famous as the “Lackawanna Six” to wage touchable hold or resources to a external terrorist organization.

The U.S. asked Yemen to assistance over Elbaneh and patch he was afterward inactive by polity in Jan 2004, he was never extradited.

Elbaneh and 22 another prisoners poor discover of their Arabian slammer in Feb 2006 by dig a delve to a nearby mosque. Elbaneh given in May to Arabian polity but was never dispatched backwards to slammer despite the current trial.

The U.S. is substance up to $5 meg for aggregation directive to his arrest.

Al-Qaida has an astir proximity in Yemen despite polity efforts to defeat the network. The assemble was blamed for the 2000 onslaught of the USS Cole that killed 17 dweller sailors and an move on a land lubricator tanker, the Limburg, that killed digit mortal digit eld later.