He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of assault and battery in connection with the May 1997 fight. He was sentenced to two days in jail and five days of community service, but he never showed up for the community service. There is an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
Adam Gadahn worked in 1997 at Charity Without Borders in Garden Grove, where Khalil al-Deek, a terrorist suspect with alleged ties to Osama bin Laden, also was employed. It is not clear if the two were friends.
Rita Katz, executive director of terrorism research group Site Institute, said al-Deek was a suspected mastermind of the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Day 2000.
Al-Deek was jailed in Jordan for 17 months on suspicion of being involved in a bombing plot, but he was never charged with a crime. He was released in May 2001 and deported to the United Arab Emirates.
FBI officials in Los Angeles said Adam Gadahn was last known to be in Southern California in 1997 or 1998. His father said he traveled to Pakistan with friends and, at first, would write two or three times a year but that became less frequent. "He just faded," Philip Gadahn said.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20040528-0715-terrorthreat-gadahn.html
Like the American terrorist caught in the foxhole in Iraq, I wonder if Adam Gadahn, when caught, will be pampered and given primo attention? I don't know why I have no faith in what will occur after the eventual capture of this alleged terrorist. The "long arm of the law" in most many recent "investigations" has proven itself to be a "toothless tiger." After reading Jill St. Claire's experience with reporting terrorist threats, it just makes me cringe. The FBI should be ashamed to bully someone who attempts to assist them, and not to adequately provide a knowledgeable human being to forward possible critical threats in an urgent manner to an informed agent who is capable of acting on critical information. If you haven't read it, you should.
Rita Katz, executive director of terrorism research group Site Institute, said al-Deek was a suspected mastermind of the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Day 2000.
Am I seeing things, or are these the same person? The Katz person?