Holding my breath that the reports are accurate.
I hadn’t realized Gadahn released a tape just today:
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Gadahn was likely detained in the Sohrab Goth neighborhood in Karachi, Rafiq said. “Sohrab Goth is a major Pashtun area in northern Karachi,” he said. “Many Mehsud tribesmen live there.”
The reported capture of Gadahn comes the same day as As Sahab, al Qaeda’s propaganda arm, released a video of him praising Major Nidal Hasan, the Muslim US Army officer who murdered 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009.
“Brother Nidal is the ideal role model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes,” Gadahn said, according to a partial translation provided by CTV.
“Nidal Hasan is a pioneer, a trailblazer and a role-model who has opened a door, lit a path and shown the way forward for every Muslim who finds himself among the unbelievers,” Gadahn continued.
Gadahn also called for additional attacks in the US, mirroring the tactics used by Hassan, but said the attacks should not be limited to US military targets.......
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/03/american_al_qaeda_sp.php#ixzz0hWDNPkrD
Sequent Energy President Doug Schantz Is Missing, Company Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aUXv77mj50bo
Police reviewing surveillance video from the area have pegged Schantz as leaving Razzoo Bar and Patio about 2 a.m. Friday, New Orleans Police Assistant Superintendent Marlon Defillo said during a news conference Saturday night.
Colleagues recall seeing Schantz, president of Sequent Energy Management, between 1 and 2 a.m. at a bar in the 500 block of Bourbon Street, Defillo said. He was wearing a jacket and tie.
Several of those colleagues, who had since flown back to Houston, returned to New Orleans on Saturday with plans to fan out across the French Quarter to distribute fliers seeking information about Schantz’s whereabouts.
“They had shots of him leaving the place he was at and then the next clip shows a taxi pull away, and he’s not on the street after that,”
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/03/no_new_information_in_search_f.html