Posted on 10/29/2004 2:07:57 PM PDT by rocksblues
"I listened to this so called American born terrorists voice and the man is not speaking American born English."
I listened, too. Reminds me of John Lindh, captured with the Taliban.
After awhile away from anybody speaking in your home language, or around others speaking another English dialect, often one picks up trace accents.
That is what I heard in it, so I believe he can EASILY be an America.
"He looks like a nerd pussy to me. Give me five minutes and he'd be cryin' for his momma."
Yup. At first I thought it was a parody. Still laughing.
I've said it before and it bears repeating. The big problem with Islam is that it provides too many convenient hooks for angry people to hang their hate on. This loser thinks America is bad because he couldn't make anything of himself in the freest nation on earth. So he attaches himself to a religion that says it is ok to hate others (and Islam does), and voila, he has a mission in life. A mission to avenge all the imagined wrongs of his life along with others just like him in the name of larger, but equally misguided cause. By killing "Americans" he is lashing out all those he feels stood in his way during his life. So much easier than taking responsibility for it himself.
the word "tyranny" wasn't right.
"Ah So".....
Today: May 28, 2004 at 7:21:41 PDT
Terror Charges Baffle Suspect's Father
HEMET, Calif. (AP) -
The father of an American suspected of being an al-Qaida operative said he
is baffled by the allegation, saying he has spoken to his son only
occasionally in recent years, but still can't imagine that he would be
involved with a terrorist network.
Philip Gadahn, speaking Thursday at the edge of the rutted dirt road that
leads to his 40-acre property, said he has seen no evidence linking his
25-year-old son, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, to al-Qaida.
"I don't remember him as the kind of person who would do the things he is
accused of doing," the elder Gadahn said while taking a break from working
at his Winchester ranch. "If he's involved in this, that's going to be
really strange."
On Wednesday, the government announced that Adam Gadahn is suspected of
attending an al-Qaida training camp and working as a translator for the
terror group. The son was the only U.S. native on a list of seven alleged
operatives sought by authorities for plotting against the United States.
Also Wednesday, FBI agents came to the father's property and spoke to him.
The elder Gadahn said the family last spoke to Adam several months after the
Sept. 11 attacks. He called from Pakistan to say he was married to a refugee
and they were going to have a child.
Philip Gadahn said he moved to the ranch southwest of Hemet in the 1970s to
escape the noise and traffic of the city and changed the family name from
Pearlman because he was starting a new life. He said the Gadahn name was
taken from the Bible, but would not elaborate.
Adam was home-schooled, in part because the dirt road outside the property
often becomes impassable in winter. His brother and aunt said the family was
Christian but not particularly religious. The father described them as
Universalist and believers in nonviolence.
"We have four kids; three of them are fairly average Southern California
kids," the father said.
A longtime neighbor, Alberto Monroy, said the family would not allow him or
other adults on the property when he came to pick up his son from playing
with the youngest Gadahn son, but the family was polite.
"When we had to fix the road or stuff, he was always here helping," he said
from the porch of his home.
Adam Gadahn didn't attend college, choosing instead to move to the suburbs
of Los Angeles where he became a Muslim and worshipped at the Islamic
Society of Orange County. The mosque later expelled him for attacking one of
its leaders.
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.
good work!!! did you do that?
send it to FOX news!!
how do i do that?
From the sfgate---
"snip"---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.---- "snip"
"snip"---Nancy 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.----"snip"
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Los Angeles Community College District
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
NANCY PEARLMAN
Nancy Pearlman is an award-winning broadcaster, environmentalist, college instructor, anthropologist, editor, producer, on-air personality, and outdoorswoman who has made safeguarding the earth’s ecosystems both a vocation and an avocation. For thirty-three years, she has given her time and energy to the environmental cause. She was selected by the United Nations Environment Programme as a Global 500 Laureate and has received many other honors.
Since the 1970s when Nancy coordinated the first Earth Day in Southern California, she has worked with hundreds of conservation organizations, serving as administrator, founder, member of advisory councils, participant, and member of boards of directors. She founded the Ecology Center of Southern California in 1972 and Project Ecotourism in 1993.
Environmental Directions, her international weekly radio series, was started in 1977 and is now the longest-running environmental radio series in the country. These half-hour programs with one to three interviews per show have featured leading scientists, activists, and representatives from the business, academic, government, and nonprofit sectors.
As Executive Producer and Host of the three-time EMMY-nominated environmental television series ECONEWS, Nancy covers every ecological issue. Since 1984, she has presented her programs weekly to over 35 million homes via cable and broadcast television and over the Internet. Over 500 shows have aired on local origination, public access, governmental, school, and university channels, as well as on satellite to PBS Stations. Television specials that have won awards include “Gem in the Heart of the City” (the definitive piece on the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area), “A Focus on Environmental Education-Kimbark Elementary School,” “Wind: Energy for the 90s and Beyond,” and “Population Crisis USA.” Television show honors include ACE-nominations (Award for Cable Excellence), Hometown USA Video Festival, and Diamond Awards. There has been recognition at many film festivals. Nancy’s public service announcements have won numerous Buccaneer Awards from the Public Interest Radio and Television Educational Society. Recent all-on-location ecotourism specials include India, Nepal, Fiji, Kenya, Tanzania, Malaysia’s Borneo, Mexico’s Yucatan, St. Kitts and Nevis, Canada's Vancouver Island, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec.
As Executive Director to Educational Communications, Nancy edits the bi-monthly Compendium Newsletter and the yearly “Directory of Environmental Organizations” (now in its 28th edition). She is also president of a media consulting firm which creates audio-visual materials. She has taught Cultural and Physical Anthropology, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Mass Communications at the college level. Nancy is a blue-ribbon judge for the Chevron Texaco Conservation Awards.
Nancy Pearlman is a member of the Gypsy Folk Ensemble. Her athletic achievements include completing the Western States 100-mile run, finishing the Ironman Triathlon, climbing more than 100 listed peaks in California, winning long-distance races such as the 1980 Regional Championship 50-mile race, and performing in equestrian events.
Perhaps Gadahn's aunt helped to send him down his currently diversive path.
Hugh Esco gpga-news@greens.org
Wed, 06 Jun 2001 20:31:51 -0400
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 05:31:14 -0700
From: Mike Feinstein
To: post-grns-usa-forum@greens.org
Subject: Green Party victory in Los Angeles election
Green Party of Los Angeles County
2807 Pico Bl., Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 449-1882 gpca-lacounty@greens.org
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Green Party member Nancy Pearlman is elected to the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees, Seat 6
Pearlman's victory comes in the largest district in the U.S. to elect a Green - 2,125,050 registered voters
Pearlman is LA County's sixth Green Party member to be holding elected office at the present and the 34th California Green to be doing so statewide.
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In a landslide victory Tuesday night, Green Party member Nancy Pearlman was elected to the Los Angeles Community College District Board for the first time
Her election comes in the largest district ever to elect a Green in the U.S. AD 2,125,050 registered voters - spanning an area that includes the City of Los Angeles as well as 33 neighboring cities, containing more registered voters than several states.
Despite being outspent by more than 12 to one, Pearlman received 62.6% of the vote and 326,248 votes. A part-time college anthropology and broadcasting instructor and a former middle and high school teacher, Pearlman sought to be an independent, watchdog voice on a Board mostly dominated by the Faculty Union. The LA Weekly said Pearlman "knows the campuses and is passionate about improving them."
Pearlman's opponent sent out two direct mail pieces attacking Pearlman s party affiliation. One mail piece went to Democratic voters and accused Pearlman of being a member of some unnamed fringe party. A similar piece was sent to Republican voters, warning that Pearlman was a member of an unnamed far left fringe party.Interestingly, neither piece specifically mentioned the Green Party, perhaps because such an association might have been positive for many voters.
Organizer of Los Angeles first Earth Day in 1970, Pearlman has been a grassroots progressive community activist and environmentalist in Southern California for over thirty years (http://www.ecoprojects.org).
She founded the Ecology Center of Southern California, started Project Ecotourism, edits the COMPENDIUM Newsletter, and produces and hosts the Environmental Directions radio and ECONEWS television series.
Pearlman's vote total is likely to be the highest for any California Green candidate ever. Her total already surpasses Margaret Garcia's 314,812 votes in 1994 for Secretary of State. Pearlman falls just 580 votes short of 2000 California Green U.S.Senate candidate Medea Benjamin, who received 326,828. However, once Pearlman's final absentee and provisional ballots are counted, its possible that she will pass Benjamin as well.
With Pearlman's victory there are now six Green Party elected officeholders in LA County:
Mike Feinstein, Mayor, Santa Monica
Kevin McKeown, City Councilmember, Santa Monica
Jeff Sklar, Rent Control Board, Santa Monica
Nancy Pearlman, Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees, Seat 6
Glenn Bailey, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains
Woody Hastings, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains
Pearlman's victory was the second Southern California Green Party breakthrough win in 2001 - in February Karl Warkomski became the first Green elected in conservative Organge County, winning a seat on thenewly-formed Aliso Viejo City Council. Statewide in California, there are 34 Greens holding elected office.
http://www.feinstein.org/greenparty/electeds.html
bttt
Gorio, I did the same photo enhancement you did and posted it a few days ago, and the eyebrows did not look the way they do in your pic. I believe you have touched them up.
go to their web sit and look up e-mail addresses and phone numbers
but do it fast~!
BTTT
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