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WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials are confident, but not certain, the English-speaking man who threatened new al Qaeda attacks in a videotape obtained by ABC News is a missing Californian named Adam Gadahn, ABC reported reported on Tuesday. After weeks of technical analysis, officials have concluded with a high degree of confidence that the speaker identified on the videotape as "Assam the America" is Gadahn, who left California for Pakistan six years ago, ABC reported. The CIA referred calls to the FBI. An FBI spokesman said he had no information on the reported identification. ABC obtained the...

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<p>Los Angeles -- Adam Gadahn had a decidedly unconventional upbringing, with parents who farmed goats in Riverside County and shunned the conveniences of the late 20th century.</p> <p>Yet at 17, he seemed to fit the profile of an average American boy. He loved watching television, listened to music his family disapproved of and drove his parents nuts by keeping his room a mess.</p>

The Drudge scoop today is about alleged American al Qaeda Adam Gadahn. Here are some handy background links: -The FBI bulletin -Gadahn's Muslim manifesto posted on a USC website -Debbie Schlussel's report on Gadahn's radical imam -More on the Islamic Society of Orange County at Little Green Footballs -Blogger Jon at Right Side Redux did some poking around into Gadahn's past work for a little e-zine called Xenocide here -Robert Spencer reports on The New Face of al Qaeda -And before the anti-profiling absolutists start using Gadahn as their new poster boy, note that the FBI says he was just...