An American spokesman for Al Quaeda
'Azzam the American' born to a Jewish family was previously Adam Pearlman (File)
DUBAI (Agencies)
An American member of al-Qaeda urged militants, in an internet video aired Sunday, to welcome U.S. President George W. Bush "with bombs and traps" during his trip to the Middle East next week and then proceeded to tear up his U.S. passport on camera.
"Welcome him not with flowers and applause but with bombs and traps," said Adam Gadahn, a convert to Islam who has been indicted for treason by a U.S. jury.
"I send this urgent call to our brothers the Mujahedin, mainly in Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula, and in the region in general, to be ready to welcome the Crusader, the butcher Bush... with bombs and car bombs," he said, according to a translation.
Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, said jihad against the United States would continue until it released Muslims from its jails. He complained about the treatment of jailed U.S. Islamist militant John Walker Lindh, and others.
In a theatrical move, he then took his U.S. passport from his breast pocket and showed its pages on camera before ripping it up in protest at the treatment of Muslim detainees.
The internet video, entitled "An Invitation to Reflection and Repentance",
is the first al-Qaeda warning of 2008, with the bulk of the 50-minute tape attributed to Gadahn spoken in English, except for the call to bomb the U.S. president which is in Arabic.
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Arab leaders
Bush is due to arrive in Israel on Wednesday, the first U.S. president to visit the Jewish state in nine years, in a bid to hasten the search for peace with the Palestinians. He is also due to visit the West Bank as well as five Arab states.
The message strongly criticizes Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and other Arab leaders for welcoming Bush to their countries as part of his eight-day tour of allies in the region.
It also contains a renewed attack on Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf over his support for the United States.
Gadahn recites verses from the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and reviews the "victories" of the Mujahedin in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Maghreb.
He ends the message with prayers "for the victory of Muslims over the Jews, the Americans and their allies."
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Adam Pearlman vs 'Azzam the American'
Gadahn -- also known Azzam al-Amriki or Azzam the American -- is a key Al-Qaeda propagandist and is originally from California.
Gadahn was born in 1978 in southern California, the son of a 1960s Jewish rock musician who later converted to Christianity and became a rural goat farmer. He was previously known as Adam Pearlman.
His conversion to Islam came after he attended the Islamic Centre of Orange County, California, where he is believed to have come under the influence of two foreign-born Islamist radicals.
Gadahn is believed to have left California for Karachi in 1998 and gradually lost contact with relatives in the United States.
He has appeared in several videotapes for Al-Qaeda since 2004, praising the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington and threatening new terror onslaughts.
In October 2006, he became the first person to be charged in the United States with treason since the World War II era. The charge carries a minimum of five years in prison on conviction and a maximum penalty of death.
Gadahn, long believed to be in Pakistan, has a one million dollar reward posted for his capture, and he appears along with bin Laden on a U.S. "Wanted" poster featuring 26 "faces of global terrorism."
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Hang him High. 0 -
I would love to be the Federal judge at his treason trial.
"The defendant will rise."
"The jury having found you guilty of treason, I hereby sentence you to hang by the neck until dead."0 -
And we are surprised??? Same old crap. 0 -
Just take him to an old barn. Put him in the loft and nail his scrotum to the floor with big roofing nails. Give him a very dull, rusty little pen knife and set the barn on fire. Wait outside with 100 old muskets loaded with rusty nails and tell him the choice is his. 0 -
Kind of like painting a bullseye on your forehead. 0 -
I wonder what happened to a certain hirsute missing forum member[:0]
Must have dyed his hair and beard though[:p]0 -
Can I be a part of the firing squad? 0 -
one would hope that he has had his citizenship revoked! can that be done in the U.S.?..i think it would be correct to call him an ex american!..someone turns traitor against his country like this doesnt deserve any of the rights of citizenship!..if i was to capture someone like this and he was from my country i would stick a bullet in him on the spot, it would ensure there was no way he was ever going to be allowed to go back into my society!people like this dont deserve any rights! 0 -
Tie him over a barrel butt naked in a boar pen and smear his butt with sow in heat scent. Tape it and send the tape back to Al Quaeda. Dave 0 -
Turn him loose on the Cahulawossie River, in "Deliverance" land.
Georgia mountain boys will make him squeal like a pig.0 -
my personal opinion is that the guy is a mole. he works for the CIA and has infiltrated al-qaeda. at least that is what i am hoping. otherwise, i would like to rip his limbs off one at a time. 0 -
Always remember Adam, we're keeping a light on for you. 0
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