A man identified only as "Azzam the American" appears on a tape saying America faces a new wave of terror attacks. (ABC News)
Posted on 10/28/2004 3:17:30 PM PDT by conservativepoet
FOX NEWS HAS OBTAINED TERROR TAPE (SHOWING IT NOW)
Why is this tape such a big deal for ABC? They could have aired it, with a caveat that it hasn't been confirmed by CIA. Liberal bias to the max. ABC has made this story a bigger deal than it really is. Kudos to Drudge!
Looked like another bad disney movie to me.
Bingo! Thanks so much for this observation.
A man identified only as "Azzam the American" appears on a tape saying America faces a new wave of terror attacks. (ABC News)
True. It has been said that he may not speak English as a first language either, and that is what I meant. To me, he looks American born and sounds American bred. In the brief footage I saw, he sounded like any other American I know.
Yet some who have seen the entire tape, say that he refers to Yemen as "The Yemen," therefore indicating that although he is versed in English, that he may also speak another language more intimately. But I didn't get that from the portion of the tape that aired so far. I guess we need to see more of the tape. And I hope we will be able to view it in its entirety.
Looks like the typical Kerry supporter to me...or even an ABC NEWS camera man...
Some college kid who got all C's and is mad & taking it out on America instead of his being too stupid to live?
Zawahiri's last tape barely got any play in the MSM.
Giving it to ABC ensures it gets out quickly. Just in time for the election.
Oh great, another fat*ss moore production. Terroristhype 11-2, if we don't surrender they will hit us again. we must surrender now /end moore fear mongering
If I looked like that I would probably move to a third world country and become a terrorist too. Or else put a 45 to my head.
I don't know if it is fake or not, just stating that it looked fake to me.
^^Dork!
You know, FReepers blew the whistle on CBS and if this is a fake, it will be exposed RIGHT HERE!!!!!
Low production values and someone who speaks fluent American style English doesn't necessarily mean fake...it means it's not what we think it ought to be like...particularly if they really did get it in Pakistan.
Article about "terrorist" who allegedly made this tape From San Francisco Chronicle
'Average American boy' accused as terrorist
U.S. says Californian is 1 of 7 al Qaeda operatives who may be working on an attack this summer
(His aunt said he wanted to become a BROADCAST JOURNALIST)
Thursday, May 27, 2004 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/27/CALIF.TMP
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. 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.''
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It's Larry O'Donnell trying to scare John O'Neil
I agree. This looks like a fake to me!
Maybe. I know where you are coming from. It is a fine line.
But many of us here on FR will hopefully get the whole scoop on the web. Because we want to have access to the entire communication.
FAKE!!!!!
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