Azzam the American (Adam Gadahn) captured?

[Caliga]

American al Qaeda spokesman arrested in Pakistan, official says
March 7, 2010 2:34 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- Adam Gadahn, an American spokesman for al Qaeda, has been arrested in Pakistan, a senior Pakistani government official source told CNN.

The official said Gadahn was arrested Sunday in Karachi.

Several U.S. officials told CNN that they have no indication that Gadahn has been captured.

News of the arrest came hours after Islamist Web sites posted video of Gadahn praising a November shooting rampage at the U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas. On the video, Gadahn said the Army major charged with gunning down 13 people "lit a path" for other Muslim service members to follow.

Gadahn has routinely posted lengthy videos on Islamist online forums.

In 2006, he was indicted on charges of treason and providing material support to terrorists. The U.S. government has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture.

Gadahn grew up on a California farm, and was home-schooled until age 17. A year later he moved in with his paternal grandparents, who were secular Jews. He converted to Islam at the Islamic Society of Orange County, California, but was banned from the mosque two years later after hitting its chairman, Haitham Bundjaki.

In 1997 Gadahn began working for a California charity suspected of having ties to al Qaeda. He moved to Pakistan in 1998.

His family has said they last heard from him in 2002. In 2004, the FBI identified him as part of an al Qaeda cell that was planning attacks aimed at disrupting that year's presidential election in the United States.

In October 2004, he began appearing in disguise in al Qaeda videos. Gadahn dropped the disguise in 2006.

In 2008, he renounced his U.S. citizenship and destroyed his passport in another al Qaeda video.

In his video message posted online Sunday, Gadahn says Muslims should emulate the alleged Fort Hood shooter.

"I believe that defiant Brother Nidal is the ideal role model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes," Adam Gadahn says in English in the video.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist and a U.S.-born citizen, is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the November 5 killings. Hasan is also facing 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder and is eligible for the death penalty.

"The Mujahid brother 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 and yearns to discharge his duty to Allah and play a part in the defense of Islam and Muslims."

Gadahn also cites in Sunday's video the U.S. and allied buildup in Afghanistan, where the United States is in the process of adding about 30,000 troops.

"It is rapidly becoming clear that this already hot global battle is about to get even hotter," he says. "This is a war which knows no international borders and no single battleground, and that's why I am calling on every honest and vigilant Muslim in the countries of the Zionist-Crusader alliance in general and America, Britain and Israel in particular to prepare to play his due role in responding to and repelling the aggression of the enemies of Islam."

In December, Gadahn released a video message in English offering condolences to "unintended Muslim victims" killed in attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere. It was a rare example of al Qaeda offering condolences to the families of those killed in the group's own attacks.

[Viking]

Pakistan getting it's act together? Great news.

[Darth Wagtaros]

  I bet he is a registered Democrat.

[Caliga]

Another misguided Marin County hot tubber 

[Darth Wagtaros]

This just shows how the LIberal way of life is evil and morally bankrupt. 

[Barrister]

This just shows how the LIberal way of life is evil and morally bankrupt.

I like how your capitalized Liberal, thus showing how Liberal Parties are a threat to us all.

Die Ignatief, die!

[merithyn]

More proof that homeschooling is bad. 

[jimmy olsen]

ABC says his identity is not confirmed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/american-al-qaeda-arested-gadahn-pakistan-official/story?id=10035076

[Martinus]

Gadahn grew up on a California farm, and was home-schooled until age 17.

'nuff said.

[Darth Wagtaros]

ABC says his identity is not confirmed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/american-al-qaeda-arested-gadahn-pakistan-official/story?id=10035076

So says the Lamestrea media!  Curse them!

[Caliga]

There's been confusion about who exactly was captured since the news first broke, which is why I ended the thread title with a question mark.

[Jaron]

Two legs bad

[DGuller]

Two legs bad

Brain?

[Caliga]

Al Qaeda agent held in Pakistan is not Adam Gadahn; the Riverside man is still at large
Pakistani officials reverse earlier statements that they had arrested the spokesman and propagandist for the terrorist network. They now say the man seized in Karachi is a Pennsylvania native.
By Alex Rodriguez Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

March 8, 2010 | 6:03 a.m.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The American Al Qaeda operative arrested in Karachi over the weekend was not the Southern California native wanted by the U.S. on treason charges for his involvement in the terror network, Pakistani intelligence officials said Monday.

Pakistani security officials initially asserted that the American Islamic extremist they had captured in the country's largest city late Saturday night was Adam Gadahn of Riverside, a spokesman and top propagandist for the Al Qaeda terror network.

However, by early Monday morning, doubts arose about those initial reports. U.S. officials said they were skeptical of those claims and that there was no indication that Gadahn was the suspect arrested in Karachi.

Later Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials reversed themselves and said the man arrested was actually Abu Yahya Mujahideen Adam, a Pennsylvania native and operative for Al Qaeda. The intelligence officials said Adam had been transferred to Islamabad for interrogation but would not give further details.

Gadahn, 31, remains at large. He is on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists and is the first American since the World War II era to be charged with treason. The U.S. government has offered a $1-million reward for information leading to his arrest.

He was indicted in 2006 by a federal grand jury in Orange County for allegedly providing material support to Al Qaeda by appearing in videos on five different occasions between Oct. 27, 2004, and Sept. 11, 2006, with the intent "to betray the United States."

His latest video was posted on extremist websites Sunday. In it, he urged Muslims serving in the American military to emulate U.S. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at the Ft. Hood military base just outside Killeen, Texas, on Nov. 5.

In the video, Gadahn called Hasan "the ideal role model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes."

[Admiral Yi]

A treason trial would be fun.