Posted on 11/09/2004 7:07:55 PM PST by yonif
What a loser. He left at age 20, and six years later- he can't speak English?
Remember the early assessments saying how Assum sounded like he "might" be native to the U.S. but has forgotten much of the language. Not so young—but clearly impressionable. Poor Adam.
Thank you!
To this Jack Hole's very public trial for treason, followed shortly thereafter by his very public execution. This turd is the lowest form of life on the planet. I hope he enjoys his own wing in Hell.
This guy is not a 60's "flower child", He wasn't born until 1978. Also, isn't Pearlman a Jewish name? So this is a Jew who converted to Muslim? Strange!!! Self hating Jews do strange things. Just like all the self-hating Jews who help the Palestinians.
I suggest that he was the offspring from a wild hedonistic drug induced coupling of flower children!
Speaking of flower children and wanna-be terrorists...ya oughta visit Evergreen College up here in Washington State (Olympia)...you'll think you're back in the 60's! It's truly the cesspool of WA state...I think nearby Fort Lewis oughta use it for howitzer practice (oops...wrong coordinates...sorry!)
... h'mm. I wonder, are they still active enablers at this point, or have they sobered up?
Los Angeles -- Adam Gadahn had a decidedly unconventional upbringing, with parents who farmed goats in Riverside County and shunned the conveniences of the late 20th century.
Yet at 17, he seemed to fit the profile of an average American boy [well, he had to move to his grandparents' home to do this]. He loved watching television, listened to music his family disapproved of and drove his parents nuts by keeping his room a mess.
About that time, however, he discovered Islam. And Wednesday, federal authorities labeled him an enemy, saying he was one of seven suspected of being al Qaeda operatives who may be working to mount a terrorist attack this summer in the United States.
Gadahn, now 25, has attended al Qaeda training camps and worked as a translator for the terrorist group, the FBI said. Authorities said he may be using the names Adam Pearlman or Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki.
To his relatives, it came as a shock.
"He never espoused any kind of terrorism,'' said his aunt, Nancy Pearlman of Los Angles. "He was never fanatical. As far as I know, there are no connections with terrorism. I hope I'm proven correct.''
Pearlman described her nephew as a curious, bright, heavyset young man who followed his faith to Pakistan and called her more than a year ago to say he was marrying an Afghan refugee.
In some respects, Gadhan's case is reminiscent of that of John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban'' from Marin County, who embraced Islam, traveled to Afghanistan, met Osama bin Laden and was captured by U.S. forces in December 2001.
Pearlman said her brother Phil, Gadahn's father, was a sometimes-rock musician who had been heavily influenced by the 1960s milieu while growing up in suburban Santa Ana. He was Phil Pearlman then, but when he married he and his wife came up with a name that had no particular meaning, Gadahn, his sister said.
Phil Gadahn and his wife, Jennifer, brought up their children on a farm in Riverside County. Among other things, they raised goats, which they butchered in accord with Islamic dietary laws so they could be sold to Muslims.
The couple had no television and no computer. "They live off the grid," Pearlman said. "They chose a more rustic lifestyle."
Adam was the oldest of four children, all of whom were home-schooled. But when he turned 17, eager for the kinds of things other teenagers enjoyed, he chose to move into the home of his paternal grandparents in Santa Ana.
There, Pearlman said, he grew to love watching television, using a computer and the Internet and listening to heavy metal rock music, which she disparaged.
"He was listening to that awful, awful stuff," she said.
That changed, however, when he converted to Islam.
In a 1995 Web posting attributed to Adam Gadahn, entitled, "Becoming Muslim," he wrote that he had turned to Islam after listening to Christian radio programs preaching about the "Islamic threat."
He called the Christian belief in the Trinity "ridiculous'' and "gradually realized I could not be a Christian.''
"Having been around Muslims in my formative years, I knew well that they were not the bloodthirsty, barbaric terrorists that the news media and the televangelists paint them to be," the statement said. "It was really a natural progression."
He had one minor brush with the law in 1997, when he was convicted of misdemeanor assault and battery for attacking an employee at the Islamic Society of Orange County in Garden Grove.
"He was becoming very extreme in his ideas and views,'' Muzammil Siddiqi, the society's religious director, told the Associated Press. "He must have disliked something.''
Pearlman said she is a committed environmentalist and had encouraged her nephew to participate in a television show she produced. Before his religious conversion, she said, she had thought that Adam Gadahn might become a broadcast journalist.
Until about 18 months ago, they were still close, she said. Then, he seemed to drop out of sight. The family knew he had gone to Pakistan, a country racked by turmoil in the post-Sept. 11 era, but Pearlman said they didn't go to great lengths to contact him.
"He was living his life," she said.
Other relatives told reporters they thought Gadahn had been working for a newspaper in Pakistan.
Asked about the FBI's announcement Wednesday, Gadahn's younger brother, 17-year-old Omar Gadahn, told the Associated Press, "I don't believe it, but I don't know. Anything is possible.'' He said his brother "wanted to follow what he believed and that's what he did.''
Sister said, "Our family are [sic] strong believers in non-violence. -- http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1212&IssueNum=66: At around age 15, Adam moved out, changed his name back to Pearlman, and stayed with his grandparents in Santa Ana, presumably – among other things – to watch television and not have to shower out in the woods in the dark. What kid wouldn’t? He then became so obsessed by death metal that, as he writes in “Becoming Muslim,” he “didn’t clean his room” for a year.
According to his sister, Los Angeles environmentalist Nancy Pearlman, their father was a strong opponent of the Vietnam War. She told CNN, “Our family are strong believers in non-violence. We are strong believers in peace.”
(from Fatalis & Alia)
". . . Therefore I submit to you that both Adam (Pearlman) Gadhan, the latest American Al Qaeda, and Mohammed Hesham Hadayet, the El Al shooter at LAX in 2002, both worshipped at one time or another at the Islamic Society mosque in Garden Grove California, which is operated by Dr. Muzamil Siddiqi." -- Fatalis
Wait. I thought this was really Karl Rove in disguise???? Isn't that what the DUmmies are spewing?
in a fwiw, here's a peek into the liberal mind (dress accordingly).
Adam PEARLMAN?!
Is this kid Jewish?
lol... the architect, h'mmm? means Bush really did do it.
see post #34.
er, #35. good night!
Also along the CA Coastline, being the "minority" is always treated as a big deal. In his new group, Adam, got to be as the "minority" within a majority (white within an Islamist group). Ergo, he got to feel special. Besides, in CA, for too long, liberals have cast "white" as "hidious".
The liberal matrix created Adam.
This, I've no doubts, is considered by the left to be secular humanism's finest hour.
LOL Whatcha wanna do that for? Their clothes are much more 'cool' if they've been wadded in a ball under the bed for 3 months!!
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