And his parents hum new age mantras when they're not out protesting the war and George Booooosh.
This from a 2005 tape featuring, ta-da! None other than Adam Gadahn.
Courtesy of Counterterrorism Blog
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2005/09/new_alqaeda_tape_continues_app.php
"...Al-Qaeda's latest tape, believed to be the work of Muslim convert Adam Gadahn, is a remarkable example of al-Qaeda continuing to pursue this rhetorical strategy. It is, in fact, al-Qaeda's most blatant attempt to appeal to Westerners. In the very first sentence of the tape, Gadahn states that "[f]our years after the blessed raids on New York and Washington," the people of the West are "continuing to speculate about the causes and objectives which lie behind those historic events and subsequent developments." Gadahn says that there is no excuse for Westerners' uncertainty about al-Qaeda's objectives, since "the mujahedeen have been unambiguous in stating, in stating their methodology, objectives and the reasons for their armed struggle against the crusaders and they have not hidden anything." The rest of the tape is designed to outline al-Qaeda's objectives, and explicitly frames their terrorist attacks as a response to Western aggression.
Speaking to Westerners, Gadahn states that if leaders like President Bush and Prime Minister Blair "really had your protection in mind, they would have heeded the mujahedeen's demands for justice and withdrawn from the Muslim world. If they really cared about protecting you, they would have responded positively to Sheik Osama's proposal for a truce with the European nations, instead of arrogantly dismissing his initiative with the false claim that quote, 'We don't negotiate with terrorists, and that in any case, al Qaeda has no demands to meet.'"
The most remarkable passage of Gadahn's videotape urges Westerners to overthrow their leaders in order to find peace with al-Qaeda:
It is clear from what we have just explained that you, the people of the West, now have two mutually exclusive paths from which to choose. Rid yourself of your current leaders and governments and their anti-Islam, anti-Muslim policies or suffer the consequences. Rise up against your leaders ? crusaders beholden to Zion who claim to be ruling according to popular will ? yet ignore opinion polls and two-million-strong marches. . . . Removing your world rulers is the logical choice for you, the people of the West. As for the alternative, it is the path which you are currently following, the path of [Slobodan] Milosevic and Bush and Blair and their unending campaign of terror, the path of death and suffering and ultimately defeat.
The fact that al-Qaeda has chosen to tailor its message to appeasement-minded Westerners cannot, at this point, be reasonably denied. The message that al-Qaeda can be appeased is, of course, false. For all of his self-righteous exhortations about how al-Qaeda's leaders have been "unambiguous" in stating the group's grievances and objectives, Gadahn neglects to mention al-Qaeda's ultimate goal of re-establishing the caliphate, re-taking all formerly Muslim lands, and, in the end, making ready for a perpetual conflict with the West.
Very few Westerners have been deceived thus far by al-Qaeda's various appeals. Nonetheless, caution dictates that we understand what the terrorist group is attempting, so that we won't be caught unaware.
Reminds me of that movie Martin Mull was in about California yuppies where he said, "This is serious; she took the Cruisinart."