Posted on 01/06/2008 3:50:47 PM PST by SkyPilot
American Al Qaeda Leader To Bush: 'We Will Be Waiting For You'
Native Californian Al Qaeda Leader Makes Threats Against Bush Middle East Visit
Adam Gadahn, as he appears in a new al Qaeda video. (ABC News)
American Al Qaeda leader Adam Gadahn told his followers to welcome Bush "with bombs and traps" upon his upcoming visit to the Middle East this week.
"The occupied territories are awaiting their first visit by the crusader Bush and the mujahideen are also waiting for him," said Gadahn, a California native and now an Al Qaeda spokesman.
Gadahn is the star of the latest al Qaeda propaganda video to be posted online by the group's media wing, As Sahab.
In his newest dramatic gesture, Gadahn tore up his U.S. passport in protest of the imprisonment of fellow al Qaeda followers Abu Zubaydah, John Walker Lindh and Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman.
"I don't need it to travel anyway," he said afterwards.
Gadahn made reference to November's Annapolis conference of Middle Eastern leaders, saying it was a gathering of Bush's "loyal puppets." He said the United States has been "unmistakably defeated" in Iraq in Afghanistan and has lost the battle for hearts and minds "in spectacular fashion."
"They're about to hand the whole mess over to local proxies who, if they haven't already, shall soon rue the day they sold their souls and religion to the American devil," Gadahn said.
Gadahn also made reference to Pakistan, but didn't mention the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, indicating the video may have been made before her death. Rather, he said Al Qaeda "continues to strike the ruling regime" there as it fights against President Pervez Musharraf's "farce of elections."
Gadahn, who is under federal indictment for treason, is believed to be hiding in Pakistan. He left Orange County, Calif., almost 10 years ago for Pakistan and has been a regular feature in al Qaeda videos, at first wearing a mask, but he has been appearing unveiled for more than a year now. He often threatens to continue to target the United States at home and abroad.
Despite his rejection of U.S. citizenship, Gadahn made reference to the mortgage crisis in the United States, saying that it was triggered by right-wing fanatics trying to usher in the "end days."
Adam Gadahn was born Adam Pearlman in Orange County. His father, acclaimed ’60s underground psychedelic musician Phil Pearlman, was the one who chose the name Gadahn. Phil Pearlman founded the West Coast group Beat of the Earth, a band often compared by critics to their East Coast counterpart, the Velvet Underground. Though this part of the story might have caused a few in middle America to pause, Californians are accustomed to living with leftover ’60s culture, from the Heal the Bay movement to the Krishna festivals on Venice Beach. So it’s not strange that a gifted ’60s counterculture hero, the son of a Jewish urologist and a Christian housewife, would change his name to Gadahn shortly after getting married because (according to a former band mate) they wanted a name that “meant nothing.” Also not strange was that they moved to a farm in rural Riverside County and took up the profession of raising and “humanely” slaughtering goats for market. Equally not strange is that Adam and his siblings were home-schooled and raised without running water and electricity. Eccentric, West Coast, out there in “la la land,” but not strange.
I wonder if they even know?
said that he found evangelical Christianity’s “apocalyptic ramblings” to be “paranoid” and hollow.
And he liked it so much he looked for something even more paranoid and hollow!
Yep - looks like a tin foil hat.
Oh, he looks real healthy, don’t he?!?!
Mummy and Daddy must be so proud of their creep of a son.
Does this guy’s family still live in the USA?
Bwaahaahaa!!!MPThat's too funny!!!
I think so.
Who cropped out the “Al Qaeda for Obama” banners from this video snapshot?
Just put out the word that he is part Jewish. His muslim buddies will do the rest.
“Is he wearing a tin foil hat? It looks like one.”
It’s actually a collander( kitchen thing),they’re used when a standard tin foil hat isn’t strong enough to do the trick.
(keep this under your hat)
I’d love to see some young sniper drill that reprobate a new anus right in the middle of his forehead.
More likely that he'll end up in a video on Live-Leak getting shredded by 30mm from an Apache. I love watching those videos.
If he is ever captured and sent home, I want this traitor tortured.
If his rhetoric were loony-right rather than loony-left, we would be immediately seeing connections between Gadahn and conservative talk radio and blogs in the press.
Burn Azzam the Azzclown at the stake in the middle of Yankee Stadium.
I have a feeling we are one day going to hear of this guy being caught trying to escape some safehouse in pakistan wearing a burka. He will then fold like a deck of cards in 5 minutes of interrogation.
He’s half jewish too. Go figure.
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