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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It's not just that, it's because, unlike every world power that existed in human history, they know that the US won't go into their homeland and kill all their people. If a Roman, Mongol, Turk, Arab, Inca, or Persian foe ever was so troublesome, they would be removed from their homelands and/or executed/enslaved/raped. They know we won't do that to them, that we will only try to fight those who actually committed the acts, not their whole society. And so they teke advantage of our humanity while exposing their lack of same.
If we ever did treat this like an old fashioned war, it would be over in 3 days. I hope for our sake they don't push us to that.
Maybe he was our man in Pakistan.
Flip a coin. Perhaps it is a false info for starters, perhaps not. Now that the cat is out of the hat regarding potential for predators to be doing surgical strikes within Pakistan, some of these clowns may feel more secure making it look like they are no longer available as HVT.
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