Well, there went my appetite for the day...
Posted on 02/08/2008 12:28:26 PM PST by tobyhill
Where is accused terrorist Adam Gadahn?
That’s what Taliban sources along the Afghan-Pakistan border are wondering about the American-born al-Qaida member. Gadahn, known as Azzam al-Ameriki (Azzam the American), joined al-Qaida in 2003 and has appeared in several bombastic al-Qaida videos since then. Federal prosecutors indicted the Californian for treason in October 2006, and he's now on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
U.S. intelligence officials have heard the same rumors, but tell NBC News that they have no information to suggest Gadahn is dead. They specifically deny that Gadahn was killed in the same Predator missile attack that killed al-Qaida’s #4, Abu Laith al-Libi, last week near the town of Mir Ali in Pakistan’s North Waziristan province. Gadahn was visiting Mir Ali at the time, according to a local man who describes himself as a friend of Gadahn’s.
Jihadist sources on the Pakistan side of the border are telling local journalists they are worried. One who described himself as a “very close friend” of Gadahn said the 28-year-old California native had until recently been spending most of his time in the populated areas of South Waziristan, near the towns of Wana, Azam Warsak and Shahkai.
The same friend said Gadahn had left for North Waziristan a week before the Predator attack in Mir Ali, where he was supposed to attend “an important meeting”. The friend said that, after the Predator attack on January 31, they lost “all contact” with Gadahn.
"All our friends are worried about him but so far we could not make any contact with him. We had sent two of our friends to Mir Ali to locate him and provide us with details about him," the supposed friend explained.
He added that other militants who traveled with Gadahn also were missing.
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He’s not missing, but his head is.
Yeah, that it he’s not missing, he’s over here and there and there.....
My personal hope he’s missing extensive body parts and organs and will live in pain for years.
Not enough to spread on toast.
I was his decision to join a side during a war and his level of participation will be judged according to your view. His disposition, (KIA, WIA, or POW), at this time is undetermined; all that is known is that he has not been seen.
With that said, I hope he has his 72 virgin sheep or if he judged by Muhammad the other direction, to warmer climes.
Hmmm note to self.
I bet he didn’t see anything.
Hopefully he’s missing a pulse, cellular cohesion and about 1.5 gallons of blood.
At least we didn’t waterboard him!
These reporters are usually lone wolves, free lancers...and their contact may be in a closer association with the other side = this one may be putting out the story to create a cover for Gadahn and the other high-profile filth being hunted. Create the belief they're now dead, their names will move down the list of the hunted
Even if the reported isn't 'with them' - they seldom feel the need or obligation to pass on information to the military
LOL - they do! I didn't realize you had pinged me. I was prowling on the "Browse" page when I saw this.
Well, there went my appetite for the day...
America's recent willingness to apply huge ordinance drops on terrorist "safe" houses seems to correlate with the condemnation of waterboarding as an interrogation technique. A terrorist has no value alive except as a source of information.
True. That would REALLY be unacceptable.
Missing? Hell he is all over the place.
Wanna work a jigsaw puzzle?
Working for the CIA as a honey pot probably.
You are way overrating the CIA capabilities.
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