Al Qaeda's Jewish American Spokesman is Not Captured and Back in a new Video

Backstory May 7, 2010 Reports from Pakistan indicate that the American-born al Qaeda spokesman who has been charged with treason in the US was captured today in Pakistan's port city of Karachi.

Adam Gadahn and an associate are reported to have been captured during a raid by Pakistani special forces on a home at the Super Highway in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.

US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal said they believed Gadahn has been detained but would not confirm the report.

Gadahn's capture was first reported in the Pakistani press; he was not directly named, however. Geo News identified the captive al Qaeda leader as Commander Abu Yahya Azam while Dawn identified him as Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al Adam. Adam Gahdan's nom de guerre is Abu Azzam al Amriki.

"The Pakistani press often incorrectly reports the names of foreign fighters arrested in the country, especially Arabic noms de guerre," Arif Rafiq, the editor of The Pakistan Policy Blog, told The Long War Journal.

Gadahn was likely detained in the Sohrab Goth neighborhood in Karachi, Rafiq said. "Sohrab Goth is a major Pashtun area in northern Karachi," he said. "Many Mehsud tribesmen live there."

The reported capture of Gadahn comes the same day as As Sahab, al Qaeda's propaganda arm, released a video of him praising Major Nidal Hasan, the Muslim US Army officer who murdered 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009.

"Brother Nidal is the ideal role model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes," Gadahn said, according to a partial translation provided by CTV.

"Nidal Hasan is a pioneer, a trailblazer and a role-model who has opened a door, lit a path and shown the way forward for every Muslim who finds himself among the unbelievers," Gadahn continued.

Gadahn also called for additional attacks in the US, mirroring the tactics used by Hassan, but said the attacks should not be limited to US military targets.

"You shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that military bases are the only high-value targets in America and the West," Gadahn said. "On the contrary, there are countless other strategic places, institutions and installations which, by striking, the Muslim can do major damage."

The current reports of Gadahn's capture come as six top leaders of the Afghan Taliban's Quetta Shura, or executive leadership council, have been detained in Pakistan. The Pakistani military and government have previously denied that the Quetta Shura existed and said no senior Afghan Taliban leaders were present in Pakistan.

Gadahn, who is better known as Azzam the American or Azzam al Amriki, was born Adam Pearlman and converted to Islam in 1997. It is believed that he joined al Qaeda in 2003 and was recruited by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on America. In October 2004, Gadahn appeared in his first al Qaeda video, and he has been featured in several videos since. In a video released in 2008 and titled "An Invitation to Reflection and Repentance," Gadahn tore up his US passport and called for Americans to join al Qaeda.

In October 2006, he was indicted in a US federal court under charges of treason and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization for making al Qaeda propaganda videos. "By aligning himself with al Qaeda, by moving overseas to be closer to al Qaeda's base and leadership, and by joining in advocating al Qaeda's terrorist agenda, an agenda that includes the overthrow of the United States government and the murder of American citizens, Adam Gadahn has committed treason against the United States of America," said US Attorney Debra Wong Yang. He is the first American to be indicted for treason since 1952.

Gahdan was rumored to have been killed in a US airstrike in North Waziristan in January 2008, but he later resurfaced and released several videotapes.

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[littleneddygoestowar]

Looks like we have a new candidate for Most Wanted!

[IranContraScumDid911]

@littleneddygoestowar Bin Laden was not wanted by the FBI for 9/11, they did not have enough evidence to even indict him, even on a Rico charge for 9/11. He is not currently listed as Most Wanted. That is the truth about all this. It is a Pentagon - CIA show.

[cassius969]

Waitwaitwaitwait, didnt Pakistan arrest this Gadahn guy? How come he is free on the loose again? He got arrested was extradited to America and now he is out with a new video? What is going on here?

[IranContraScumDid911]

@cassius969 The whopper just gets bigger and bigger, Cass. This is all fakery staged for the hijacked American people.

[IranContraScumDid911]

@JagaJatt44 He works for the CIA/Mossad/ISI, he will never be caught ....... just like Bin Laden and Al Awalaki. Funny you even buy this story, actually. A Jewish American that works for a Muslim Cult that kills Americans because it is mad at Jews. LOL. Wouldn't they just kill him like Daniel Perlman, rather than ask him to make hokie movies. Al Qaeda is NOT Muslim, their spokesman is Jewish, their recruits are blondes from Pennsylvania, and their new spiritual leader is from New Mexico.

[lupito131]

stupid jewish people

[Cincinnati911Truth]

Adam Gadahn is a total phoney. A CIA  asset.

[wang0fett]

i hate this guy. what. an. ass. they need to bomb the guy

like right now

[ThunderDog97]

Yeah.... naturally an extremist Muslim group is going to want some JEW as a spokesperson --- right?

Gimme a freakin' break, only the completely brain-dead believe that "story".

Let's get down to brass tacks... just how many of these "Muslim extremists" are really jewish mossad agents? Plenty I bet.

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[IranContraScumDid911]

@JagaJatt44 Everything the CIA, ISI, and Mossad does is quiet as you put it. The more terror there is and the more afraid you are of a fake Jewish Al Qaeda Radical Muslim Heavymetaler Goat Farmer from Irvine, CA the more money Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel get. Your taxes go to the foundations and groups upon which global terror stands. Saudi Arabia pays for it (Wahabbi mosques), Pakistan Hosts it (Billions in US security welfare), and The CIA engineer it and feed you the news about it.