User:Geo Swan/Peter J. Ahearn

__NOINDEX__ See User:Geo Swan/Stale drafts Peter J. Ahearn was a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2003, when he was special agent in charge of the FBI's Buffalo office, he lead the investigation into the "Lackawanna Six" -- muslim Americans of Yemeni descent who had traveled to Afghanistan and received training at al Qaeda's Al Farouq training camp. Ahearn was one of the officials who described this as a "sleeper cell".

Ahearn retired from the FBI in 2006.

In 2011 Ahearn was quoted, in Mother Jones in an article about the FBI's use of informants. On September 9, 2011, Ahearn was called upon to offer his insights on terrorism to mark the tenth anniversary of the attcks of 9-11.

He appeared in PBS Frontline's episode devoted to the investigation of these Americans -- "Chasing the Sleeper Cell".