Posted on 10/12/2006 6:59:45 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Terrorism: Adam Gadahn grew up in la-la land, knowing he could be anything he wanted. Of all he might've chosen from his banquet of opportunity, he picked al-Qaida. Now he's charged with treason. It's high time.
Like John Walker Lindh of hot-tubbing Marin County, Calif., Gadahn grew up in sybaritic Orange and Riverside counties, a garden setting with vast opportunities most people in the world can only dream of. His self-absorbed hippie parents reared him permissively and now have no clue what went wrong.
Amid fast-food joints, CDs, flush toilets and lots of pricey toys, Gadahn, a one-time death-metal rock aficionado, grew a beard, donned a turban and declared himself a radical Muslim.
Costume on, Gadahn hooked up with al-Qaida, aiming to destroy the rest of us, too.
Now hiding in Pakistan, he is uniquely placed to aid terrorists as other wannabes cannot.
Gadahn is tech-savvy and knows U.S. culture. He understands how to use leftist language to appeal to American quislings, and can explain writers like Daniel Pipes and Michael Scheuer — and maybe flush toilets, too — to al-Qaida.
That's bad enough. He's also taped threats to Americans, encouraged al-Qaida recruitment and worked to demoralize America's military and give al-Qaida an edge against U.S. troops.
Gadahn should have been charged with treason in 2004, when he first mockingly looked into al-Qaida's Web cam and threatened to destroy Los Angeles. "Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Allah willing," Gadahn warned.
That wasn't all he was up to. FBI chief Robert Mueller testified that Gadahn was implicated in an al-Qaida plot to blow up gas stations around New York and Baltimore in 2003 or earlier.
Back on the al-Qaida video circuit, Gadahn appeared smirking beside al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri to threaten Americans. ...
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Read the whole thing, at the bottom it talks about Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden.
My favorite line from the article.
LOL! I like the line about showing al-qaeda how to use flush toilets.
Flush toilets how? Swirling a stick around in a mudhole where AQ does #2?
Maybe he could teach them how to use a shower while he's at it.
Plans to blow up gas stations in Baltimore? You best be stayin' outta Bawmer, hun.
This is the most important line in the article.
BUMP
It forgot to mention "Winter Soldier" and Kerry's other antics.
Idiot parents breed idiot children sometimes.
On a related note, it seems the Commies have an affinity with carrying out suicide bombings on behalf of Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, etc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680306/posts
That needed to be repeated!
ping
I still think we were too lenient with John Walker Lindh.
I hope we catch Gadahn, and give him what he deserves.
Yeah, that nasty creep got off too easy. He should have been taken to the wall and shot. Now some prison guard has to listen to his whining about not enough video games. It ain't right.
No, No.2 is that Zawahri guy Gadahn made his alqaida home movies with.
Yep. There's a whole string of them and Kerry is one of the worst.
Explains a lot.
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