Posted on 10/27/2004 9:30:46 AM PDT by icecold
Edited on 10/27/2004 10:01:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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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that's my point - Bush's response is bad news for sKerry, so change the subject.
You guys are missing the fact that they got this video from pakistan. It might have taken a day or two to even get it to america.
So do you think it's a concerted effort with MSM to re-run the story of missing weapons in Iraq and the surfacing of this tape?
Geez--that's not even news! They have been the Unamerican Broadcasting Co. for a long time!
The sick thing is that people actually listen to what this treasonous ingrate has to say.
ABC must see this as a Bush win. Look for John Kerry to put his Tough Guy costume on and start mouthing.
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Adam was the oldest of four children, all of whom were home-schooled. But when he turned 17, eager for the kinds of things other teenagers enjoyed, he chose to move into the home of his paternal grandparents in Santa Ana.
There, Pearlman said, he grew to love watching television, using a computer and the Internet and listening to heavy metal rock music, which she disparaged.
"He was listening to that awful, awful stuff," she said.
That changed, however, when he converted to Islam.
In a 1995 Web posting attributed to Adam Gadahn, entitled, "Becoming Muslim," he wrote that he had turned to Islam after listening to Christian radio programs preaching about the "Islamic threat.""
Well, well, well .... home schooled and blaming Christians for the reason behind his conversion.
Very interesting post rogue yam....
George Soros broke the Bank of England.
He has the resources to attempt the same.
...october surprise part 2
No. There is no advantage to kerry. When the threatcon goes up, so do bush's numbers.
Wasn't that when they threatened to take out Las Vegas?
This isn't Spain! An attack by Al Qaeda will backfire on them!
easy there. let's wait until we know the whole story before we send somebody to fetch a rope. we don't want to be as ridiculous as the d.u.mbs.h.its (and the msm) who swallowed the al caca story.
Can terrorists be that stupid..........if Kerry wins, so do they. If Bush wins, we become stronger.
Aw, ABC just wants to be extra careful to vet this video before risking an exodus from Kerry to support the President against a scummy terror threat. ;-)
I'd like to know the answer to that question myself. Protecting their sources? Reporter's right ot remain silent?
Drudge is the most powerful man in America. He can set the agenda.
Yeah, right. Since when to these goons switch to ABC? Did al-Jazeera annoy them by playing their last tape in a lousy time slot, or something?
I hope somebody on our side has been tailing the ABC guy. If he doesn't give up his source on this, he should be put on trial.
Your assessment makes sense to me. ABC sat on this tape and so that the weapons cache story would garner greater resonance.
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