DRUDGE World Exclusive Developing...ABCNEWS HOLDS TERROR WARNING VIDEO

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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED OCT 27, 2004 12:42:01 ET XXXXX

ABCNEWS HOLDS TERROR WARNING TAPE

**Exclusive**

In the last week before the election, ABCNEWS is holding on a videotaped message from a purported al Qaeda terrorist warning of a new attack on America, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The terrorist claims on tape the next attack will dwarf 9/11. "The streets will run with blood," and "America will mourn in silence" because they will be unable to count the number of the dead. Further claims: America has brought this on itself for electing George Bush who has made war on Islam by destroying the Taliban and making war on Al Qaeda.

ABCNEWS strongly denies holding the tape back from broadcast over political concerns during the last days of the election.

The CIA is analyzing the tape, a top federal source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.

ABCNEWS obtained the tape from a source in Waziristan, Pakistan over the weekend, sources tells DRUDGE.

"We have been working 24 hours a day trying to authenticate [the tape]," a senior ABCNEWS source said Wednesday morning.

The terrorist's face is concealed by a head dress, and speaks in an American accent, making it difficult to identify the individual, but US intelligence officials believe that man may be Adam Gadhan - aka Adam Pearlman - a southern California native who was highlighted by the FBI in May as an individual most likely to be involved in or have knowledge of the next al Qaeda attacks.

According to the FBI, Gadahn, 25, attended al-Qaida training camps and served as an al-Qaida translator.

The disturbing tape runs an hour -- the man simply identifies himself as 'Assam the American.'

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[BigEdLB]

http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/gadahn.htm
Above is the FBI link to Adam the insufferable...

[BOOTSTICK]

Come on, another terror tape??????, this would be so amazingly lame,I doubt Drudge would have such a build up, for another Islamo-clown with some innocuous threats..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[r9etb]

What's the odds ABC has not and has no intentions of releasing this video to Homeland Security Department?

The article says that the CIA is analyzing the tape.

[OXENinFLA]

Yup, that's the kid I was thinking of................

[mhking]

From KOLD-TV/DT Tucson:

Terror Suspect Has Tucson Connection

By Chris Francis, News 13 Producer
Posted: 5/26/04

One of seven suspected terror suspects named by the FBI on Wednesday has spent time in Tucson.

Yahiye Adam Gadahn grew up in Riverside County, California. But a search on the Internet reveals he also worked in Tucson as a student reporter for a TV news magazine called "EcoNews."

Gadahn helped cover a story on a garbage project at the University of Arizona, but he never attended college.

The FBI says Gadhan did attend Al-Qaida training camps. He and six other suspects may be plotting an attack on the U.S. sometime this summer, according to Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Gadahn was raised in a Christian home but converted to Islam as a teenager. His story of his conversion is on numerous Internet websites. In part, it reads: "Having been around Muslims in my formative years, I knew well that they were not the bloodthirsty, barbaric terrorists that the news media and televangelists paint them to be."

However, Gadahn's beliefs became radical, according to a Muslim cleric who knew him. He was expelled from a mosque in Orange County, California after attacking an employee there.

His family says they last heard from him five years ago, when he was working in Pakistan as a writer and expecting a child.

"My nephew is a very loving, caring young man," says Nancy Pearlman, Gadahn's aunt. "I grew up seeing him regularly and he is a very sweet person. We certainly don't believe in any kind of terrorism, so I'm really shocked by the news."

Gadahn's brother Omar was also shocked, saying the person he knew wasn't radical. "He's a cool brother. He left when I was eight. I didn't really know him that well. He was a lot older than me."

[sweetiepiezer]

Lololololololol

[shield]

You think this is that BIG!!!???

[BlessedBeGod]

How is this even possible? Aren't terrorists just a nuisance? < /sarcasm >

[SeaDragon]

Drudge has cleared his website of everthing but the headline. I suspect we may want to watch this closely

it didn't look clear to me. there is only one drudge.com isn't there?

[JonDavid]

It's HIGH NOON!!!

[Dr Snide]

Well, now Drudge is down. We've gone and played with it 'til we broke it.....

lol

[bjmorris]

>>>So, if it's really Adam Gadhan - aka Adam Pearlman, here is a picture of the asshole:<<<

Kinda looks like Dan Rather's daughter.

[Truth Table]

America has brought this on itself for electing George Bush who has made war on Islam by destroying the Taliban and making war on Al Qaeda.

That statement alone pretty much guarantees any undecideds left will shift toward Bush

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A fact not lost on ABC

[Mo1]

Uh, isn't that our government's job?

YES!!

[Selkie]

called news desk.
they will be mentioning it on tonight's evening news.

[freepertoo]

They think they're dealing with the French. Joke's on them.

[r9etb]

Yes. Article says that the CIA is looking at it.

[j_k_l]

""Well, now Drudge is down. We've gone and played with it 'til we broke it....."

You break it, you buy it!

I hope you know FrontPage.

[Steve_Seattle]

Any election day threat would probably suppress the vote in big cities, hurting Dems, because that's where we'd expect a terrorist act to occur. So that would make it hard for Bush to announce a threat, and if the threat did not materialize, the suppression of the Dem vote would raise a huge outcry.