Posted on 01/06/2008 3:50:47 PM PST by SkyPilot
American Al Qaeda Leader To Bush: 'We Will Be Waiting For You'
Native Californian Al Qaeda Leader Makes Threats Against Bush Middle East Visit
Adam Gadahn, as he appears in a new al Qaeda video. (ABC News)
American Al Qaeda leader Adam Gadahn told his followers to welcome Bush "with bombs and traps" upon his upcoming visit to the Middle East this week.
"The occupied territories are awaiting their first visit by the crusader Bush and the mujahideen are also waiting for him," said Gadahn, a California native and now an Al Qaeda spokesman.
Gadahn is the star of the latest al Qaeda propaganda video to be posted online by the group's media wing, As Sahab.
In his newest dramatic gesture, Gadahn tore up his U.S. passport in protest of the imprisonment of fellow al Qaeda followers Abu Zubaydah, John Walker Lindh and Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman.
"I don't need it to travel anyway," he said afterwards.
Gadahn made reference to November's Annapolis conference of Middle Eastern leaders, saying it was a gathering of Bush's "loyal puppets." He said the United States has been "unmistakably defeated" in Iraq in Afghanistan and has lost the battle for hearts and minds "in spectacular fashion."
"They're about to hand the whole mess over to local proxies who, if they haven't already, shall soon rue the day they sold their souls and religion to the American devil," Gadahn said.
Gadahn also made reference to Pakistan, but didn't mention the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, indicating the video may have been made before her death. Rather, he said Al Qaeda "continues to strike the ruling regime" there as it fights against President Pervez Musharraf's "farce of elections."
Gadahn, who is under federal indictment for treason, is believed to be hiding in Pakistan. He left Orange County, Calif., almost 10 years ago for Pakistan and has been a regular feature in al Qaeda videos, at first wearing a mask, but he has been appearing unveiled for more than a year now. He often threatens to continue to target the United States at home and abroad.
Despite his rejection of U.S. citizenship, Gadahn made reference to the mortgage crisis in the United States, saying that it was triggered by right-wing fanatics trying to usher in the "end days."
Evidently the islamic dork was home-schooled in California by rather unconventional sorts. There was something on Freerepublic about him at another time that touches on that, among other things. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264801/posts
Thanks ACLU.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Aren’t many people I’d like to see caught, but Adam Gadamn is one of them.
Put it on line let them all see it, let everyone see it.
Thanks ACLU.
Background and childhood
Gadahn’s Jewish paternal grandfather, Carl Pearlman, was a prominent surgeon and on the Board of Directors of the Anti-Defamation League; his paternal grandmother, Agnes Branch, was an editor for The Chronicle Christian Newspaper.[6]
Gadahan’s father, originally Phil Pearlman, grew up in Orange County, California. He was involved in the counterculture movement at the University of California at Irvine, and before Adam’s birth became a self-styled religious Christian. He and his wife Jennifer changed their name to Gadahan, after the Biblical warrior Gid’on or Gideon[1].
Gadahn was born in Oregon and raised and homeschooled through high school by his parents on an isolated farm in Southern California where they raised goats.[1] He played Little League baseball and participated in Christian homeschool support groups. As an adolescent he became very involved in the Death metal community, making contact with fans and musicians through alternative magazines. During the summer of 1993, he formed his own one-man band called Aphasia[1]. Gadahn contributed music reviews and artwork to a zine called Xenocide.
In 1995, at age 16, Gadahn moved in with his grandparents in Santa Ana, California, where he worked in a computer store and explored the Internet.
Conversion to Islam
While living with his grandparents, Gadahn described himself as having a “yawning emptiness”, and he sought ways “to fill that void.” He explored Christianity on the Internet, radio, and locally, but later said that he found evangelical Christianity’s “apocalyptic ramblings” to be “paranoid” and hollow. [1]
In 1995, at age 17, Gadahn began studying Islam at the Islamic Society of Orange County. Members of Gadahn’s study group were young fundamentalists who “targeted the mosque’s chairman, Hitham ‘Danny’ Bundakji,” whom they referred to as `Danny the Jew,` for his practice of “wearing Western clothes and being overly friendly with Jews.” [8]
Gadahn converted to Islam later that year, and shortly thereafter posted an essay to the USC website describing his conversion, entitled “Becoming a Muslim.”[9]
According to his parents, Adam was arrested and convicted of assaulting his former mentor Haitham Bundakji in May 1997, he served two days in jail, but his failure to do 40 hours of community services leaves a warrant for his arrest active.[10]
Move to Pakistan
Gadahn moved to Pakistan in 1998, where he married an Afghan refugee and maintained intermittent contact with his family.[11]
In Pakistan during 2003, Adam was asked by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to participate in a suicide attack in Maryland, but Adam decided against it citing “he had recently married and his wife was pregnant.”[12] However, a CIA official added that: “Gadahn participated in a number of “face-to-face brainstorming sessions” with Mohammed.”[13]
Gadahn warned
“...your failure to heed our demands and the demands of reason means that you and your people will - Allah willing - experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan and Iraq and Virginia Tech”.[23]
A pro choice endorsement if ever there were one.
Mostly, though, Gadahn sounds angry. In 2005, with his head wrapped in a black turban and his face covered with a black veil, he warned, “We love nothing better than the heat of battle, the echo of explosions, and slitting the throats of the infidels.” Last July, while discussing civilian casualties in Iraq, he said, “It’s hard to imagine that any compassionate person could see pictures, just pictures, of what the Crusaders did to those children, and not want to go on a shooting spree at the Marines’ housing facilities at Camp Pendleton.” In a feature-length Al Qaeda documentary that was released on the Internet on September 11, 2006, Gadahn referred to the United States as “enemy soil,” and celebrated the September 11th hijackers as “dedicated, strong-willed, highly motivated individuals.”
Too many wedgies made this pu$$y turn. Azzam, email me and I will give you my address. I would love to meet you in person.
Michael Moore’s brother?
“Time is running out,” Gadahn said, waving an arm up and down. “So make the right choice before it’s too late and you meet the dismal fate of thousands before you.”
Gadahn may be the first Al Qaeda operative to lace a religious threat with a reference to Monopoly. (“If you die as an unbeliever in battle against the Muslims, you’re going straight to hell, without passing Go.”) Or to adopt the bluster of a barroom pundit. (“Whoever takes over for Bush probably won’t have the guts to bring the troops home.”)
You guys are hysterical....LOL
Adam Gadahn’s grandfather was a popular, good-natured urologist who loved golf and the violin. He taught his children to respect art, nature and religion.
Adam Gadahn’s father rebelled against his father’s way of life. He changed his name and moved from a life of privilege in Orange County to a sparse goat farm in Riverside.
Gadahn was fresh off the goat farm and living back at his grand- father’s Floral Park home in the mid-1990s when he found Islam and soon after joined a cell of fundamentalists.
They eat quite well.
You should have seen the pudgy Arab muslims at the buffet lines in Saudi, Bahrain, and the UAE!
Best to keep your hands and feet away from their mouths.
Take two uber-leftists, have a kid, and here’s what you get.
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