<p>Top advisers of Bush including then vice-president Dick Cheney in 2002 strongly urged that the military be used to apprehend men who were suspected of plotting with al-Qaeda. The terror suspects who were hiding in Buffalo, a New York suburb, later came to be known as the Lackawanna Six, The New York Times reported.<br /><br />The decision to dispatch troops into the streets has few precedents in US history, as both the Constitution and the laws restrict the use of military within the country. <br /><br />The paper said the proposal reached an advanced stage before president Bush shot it down.<br /><br />Six young Yemeni-American men from Lackawanna were arrested in September 2002 after investigators learned they received military-type training at Osama bin Laden’s al-Farooq training camp in Afghanistan. All pleaded guilty and received sentences between seven and 10 years.<br /><br />Cheney in a memo gave broad presidential authority to allow the use of military domestically to tackle al-Qaeda men.</p>
<p>Top advisers of Bush including then vice-president Dick Cheney in 2002 strongly urged that the military be used to apprehend men who were suspected of plotting with al-Qaeda. The terror suspects who were hiding in Buffalo, a New York suburb, later came to be known as the Lackawanna Six, The New York Times reported.<br /><br />The decision to dispatch troops into the streets has few precedents in US history, as both the Constitution and the laws restrict the use of military within the country. <br /><br />The paper said the proposal reached an advanced stage before president Bush shot it down.<br /><br />Six young Yemeni-American men from Lackawanna were arrested in September 2002 after investigators learned they received military-type training at Osama bin Laden’s al-Farooq training camp in Afghanistan. All pleaded guilty and received sentences between seven and 10 years.<br /><br />Cheney in a memo gave broad presidential authority to allow the use of military domestically to tackle al-Qaeda men.</p>