-
Updated: American Al Qaeda Spokesman Adam Gadahn Arrested in Pakistan
Two Pakistani officers and a government official said Sunday that an American charged with treason for working with al Qaeda had been captured, a development that could deliver another significant blow in the U.S.-led battle against the terror network.
U.S. defense, intelligence and law enforcement officials could not immediately verify the reported detention of Adam Gadahn, a 31-year-old spokesman for al Qaeda who has appeared on videos threatening the West, including one that emerged earlier Sunday.
The reported arrest of Gadahn follows the recent detention of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi, including the group’s No. 2. Those detentions have been seen as a sign that Pakistan, which has been criticized as an untrustworthy ally, was cooperating more fully with Washington.
Some observers were cautious about giving credence to the claim that Gadahn was in custody as reports emerged that the man arrested might instead be a Taliban militant leader. There was no way of independently verifying the arrest or identity, and detentions of terror suspects in Pakistan are often surrounded by conflicting reports.
CBS News was told by sources in the Pakistan government that it was Gadahn, even after U.S. officials refused to confirm it was the California native for whom a $1 million reward has been posted.
Later, CBS News’ Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad reported that earlier reports the detained individual was Gadahn proved false. According to a Pakistan security official who spoke with CBS News on condition of anonymity, the arrested individual is in fact “a Taliban militant leader who is known as Abu Yahya.”
The official said evidence compiled from an interrogation of the suspect and information exchanged with U.S. officials verified the man’s identify.
And, Gadahn will be tried for treason, when returned to the United States.The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country.
The arrest of Gadahn is a major victory in the U.S.-led battle against al-Qaida and will be taken as a sign that Pakistan, criticized in the past for being an untrustworthy ally, is cooperating more fully with Washington. It follows the recent detentions of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi, including the movement’s No. 2 commander.
Gadahn has appeared in more than half a dozen al-Qaida videos, taunting and threatening the West and calling for its destruction. A U.S. court charged Gadahn with treason in 2006, making him the first American to face such a charge in more than 50 years.
He was arrested in the sprawling southern metropolis of Karachi in recent days, two officers who took part in the operation said. A senior government official also confirmed the arrest, but said it happened Sunday. The discrepancy could not immediately be resolved.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The intelligence officials said Gadahn was being interrogated by Pakistani officials. Pakistani agents and those from the CIA work closely on some operations in Pakistan, but it was not clear if any Americans were involved in the operation or questioning.
In the past, Pakistan has handed over some al-Qaida suspects arrested on its soil to the United States.
President Obama should immediately press Pakistan to release Gadahn to American authorities and transport his sorry ass to Super Max prison in Colorado until he is tried for treason.
Congrats to Pakistani and American intelligence officers.
Previous:
American Traitor Adam Gadahn Raises His Ugly Mug in Al Qaeda VideoAs 9/11 Approaches American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Death Rumors Continue
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Death Rumors Continue
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn is Missing
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Threatens Bush
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn – Legitimate Demands?
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn Indicted for TREASON and Aiding Terrorist
Global War on Terror Watch: Adam Gadahn to Be Charged with Treason
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn Indicted for Material Support to Terrorism
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn – “Join the Winning Side†Before it is Too Late
Al Qaeda Watch: Californian Adam Gadahn Reveals Role as Al Qaeda Leader
-
American Al Qaeda Spokesman Adam Gadahn Arrested in Pakistan
And, Gadahn will be tried for treason, when returned to the United States.The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country.
The arrest of Gadahn is a major victory in the U.S.-led battle against al-Qaida and will be taken as a sign that Pakistan, criticized in the past for being an untrustworthy ally, is cooperating more fully with Washington. It follows the recent detentions of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi, including the movement’s No. 2 commander.
Gadahn has appeared in more than half a dozen al-Qaida videos, taunting and threatening the West and calling for its destruction. A U.S. court charged Gadahn with treason in 2006, making him the first American to face such a charge in more than 50 years.
He was arrested in the sprawling southern metropolis of Karachi in recent days, two officers who took part in the operation said. A senior government official also confirmed the arrest, but said it happened Sunday. The discrepancy could not immediately be resolved.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The intelligence officials said Gadahn was being interrogated by Pakistani officials. Pakistani agents and those from the CIA work closely on some operations in Pakistan, but it was not clear if any Americans were involved in the operation or questioning.
In the past, Pakistan has handed over some al-Qaida suspects arrested on its soil to the United States.
President Obama should immediately press Pakistan to release Gadahn to American authorities and transport his sorry ass to Super Max prison in Colorado until he is tried for treason.
Congrats to Pakistani and American intelligence officers.
Previous:
American Traitor Adam Gadahn Raises His Ugly Mug in Al Qaeda VideoAs 9/11 Approaches American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Death Rumors Continue
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Death Rumors Continue
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn is Missing
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Threatens Bush
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn – Legitimate Demands?
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn Indicted for TREASON and Aiding Terrorist
Global War on Terror Watch: Adam Gadahn to Be Charged with Treason
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn Indicted for Material Support to Terrorism
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn – “Join the Winning Side†Before it is Too Late
Al Qaeda Watch: Californian Adam Gadahn Reveals Role as Al Qaeda Leader
-
American Traitor Adam Gadahn Raises His Ugly Mug in Al Qaeda Video
Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn is featured on the FBI’s Most Wanted List
Wasn’t this Al Qaeda traiter scum killed in Pakistan by the United States Predator strikes?
Guess not.Funny part of the Al Qaeda video: Sarah Palin is TOO HOT for Al Qaeda and is blurred out when showing her debate against Joe Biden.
So, Gadahn lives to take the needle another day or more likely an American bullet.
Technorati Tags: Adam Gadahn, Al Qaeda
-
My Pet Jawa Hackers Block Al Qaeda on 9/11? NO Way
My Pet Jawa’s Dr. Rusty Shackleford
The Hindustan Times says that bloggers including Dr. Rusty Shackleford thwarted Al Qaeda on 9/11.Hackers prevented Al Qaeda from releasing a videotape to mark the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Al Qaeda has traditionally issued a video or audiotape by either Osama bin Laden or Ayman al Zawahiri, the terror network’s two leaders, to mark their massive terrorist attack on the US.
As-Sahab, Al Qaeda’s media unit, had indicated earlier this week that it would post such a videotape on September 11. As-Sahab had banner images on the internet showing a silhouetted head with a question mark and the words, “Wait 11 Septemberâ€.
The US-based intelligence group IntelCenter had speculated the video would be a message from Osama or Zawahiri with a recording of the last will and testament of Mohammed Atta, one of the leaders of the 9/11 attackers.
Sources close to US intelligence said, “Hackers knocked out Al Qaeda’s online means of communication, thus preventing them from posting anything to commemorate the anniversary.â€
Western intelligence suspects two hackers who have targeted Islamicist sites before were responsible: Aaron Weisburd from Internet Haganah and Rusty Shackleford from the web group My Pet Jawa.
But, Rusty denies it and rightly so. I mean those guys at Al Qaeda do mean business if they ever get out of their holes in Waziristan.
And, even though Flap snapped the photo above of the REAL Rusty Shackleford and photoshopped it, he forgets where the original is – seriously.
Flap would like to see a cage match between Rusty and Adam Gadahn though. But, there are laws, Rusty, in mutilating a corpse.
Oh…………..
Technorati Tags: Al Qaeda, Adam Gadhan
-
As 9/11 Approaches American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Death Rumors Continue
Adam Gadahn as featured on the FBI’s Most Wanted List
As 9/11 approaches this Thursday, again rumors are surfacing that the America’s most visible member of Al Qaeda has been killed.Months of attacks by unmanned US predator aircraft have caused carnage among the middle ranks of terrorist leaders in the lawless lands along the border with Afghanistan, where al-Qa’eda remains dangerous despite suffering a serious defeat in Iraq.
Their victims have included experienced Arab leaders and, it is now thought, Adam Gadahn, a former heavy-metal fan and so-called “killer computer nerd” originally from California. Nothing has been heard from him for months, leading intelligence experts to conclude that he may be dead.
Mr Gadahn has been credited with helping transform al-Qa’eda’s al-Sahab propaganda wing into a slick operation which communicates in fluent English and produces professional quality DVDs, including one for Osama bin Laden last year.
But he may have fallen victim to an expanded programme of predator assassinations which in the last year has targeted and killed many of al-Qa’eda’s military commanders, terrorist trainers and facilitators.
So, who knows?
Perhaps Gadahn will surface like he did in January this year in the video depicted below:
Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Threatens President Bush as Bush visits the Middle East and rips up his American passport, January 6, 2008Perhaps, Adam Gadahn has QUIT Al Qaeda or been demoted to front line suicide bomber. In any event, Americans will remember his support of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden and should he resurface pursue him like the treasonous criminal he is.
Stay tuned……
Previous:
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Death Rumors ContinueAmerican Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn is Missing
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Threatens Bush
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn – Legitimate Demands?
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn Indicted for TREASON and Aiding Terrorists
Global War on Terror Watch: Adam Gadahn to Be Charged with Treason
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn Indicted for Material Support to Terrorism
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn – “Join the Winning Side†Before it is Too Late – MEMRI Cut
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn – “Join the Winning Side†Before it is Too Late
Al Qaeda Watch: Californian Adam Gadahn Reveals Role as Al Qaeda Leader
Technorati Tags: Al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn
-
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Death Rumors Continue
Adam Gadahn as featured on the FBI’s Most Wanted List
The rumors continue that California Jihadist, late of Al Qaeda was killed in Pakistan some weeks ago.As US and Pakistani intelligence attempted to determine who else might have been killed in the Jan. 29 US airstrike in North Waziristan that took the life of al Qaeda commander Abu Laith al Libi, a new, unconfirmed report claimed Adam Gadahn, Laith’s American deputy, died in the strike, as did two Kuwaitis and four other terrorists.
Sources inside Pakistan told the Nine/Eleven Finding Answers Foundation that US traitor Adam Gadahn was killed, along with Abu Suhail, Laith’s former deputy; Hamza al Somali, who is presumably of Australian or US nationality; Abu Ubayda Tawari Rakhis al Mutairi, a Kuwaiti national; Abu Adil al Kuwaiti, another Kuwaiti; and at least three Uzbek nationals. “It should be noted that the death of the American Gadahn has not yet been officially confirmed,” the Nine/Eleven Finding Answers Foundation reported.
It is surprising that Al Qaeda has neither produced Gadahn nor martyred him. Perhaps he was severely injured in the January 29th attack and is recovering.
Let’s hope we got the traitor.
Previous:
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn is Missing
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Threatens Bush
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn – Legitimate Demands?
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn Indicted for TREASON and Aiding Terrorists
Global War on Terror Watch: Adam Gadahn to Be Charged with Treason
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn Indicted for Material Support to Terrorism
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn – “Join the Winning Side†Before it is Too Late – MEMRI Cut
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn – “Join the Winning Side†Before it is Too Late
Al Qaeda Watch: Californian Adam Gadahn Reveals Role as Al Qaeda Leader
Al Qaeda Watch: Los Angeles and Melbourne Next Targets
Technorati Tags: AlQaeda, AdamGadahn, AdamPearlman.
-
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn is Missing
Adam Gadahn as featured on the FBI’s Most Wanted List
Adam Gadahn, the American spokesman for Al Qaeda is missing.
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.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 meetingâ€. The friend said that, after the Predator attack on January 31, they lost “all contact†with Gadahn.
What a shame if this traitor has been killed – especially by an American military attack.
But, who knows?
This scum bag may have survived only to resurface again to spew his Al Qaeda terrorist CRAP.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s87cLZ5V8F8[/youtube]
Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Threatens President Bush as he visits the Middle East and rips up his American passport
Previous:
American Al Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn Threatens Bush
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn – Legitimate Demands?
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Gadahn Indicted for TREASON and Aiding Terrorists
Global War on Terror Watch: Adam Gadahn to Be Charged with Treason
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn Indicted for Material Support to Terrorism
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn – “Join the Winning Side†Before it is Too Late – MEMRI Cut
Al Qaeda Watch: Adam Yehiye Gadahn – “Join the Winning Side†Before it is Too Late
Al Qaeda Watch: Californian Adam Gadahn Reveals Role as Al Qaeda Leader
Al Qaeda Watch: Los Angeles and Melbourne Next Targets
Technorati Tags: AlQaeda, AdamGadahn, AdamPearlman.