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India-Pakistan
American al Qaeda Spotted in Pakistan
2006-09-19
The American al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn, was spotted last month in a remote area of Pakistan but moved before he could be captured, Pakistani intelligence officials tell ABC News. The officials say Gadahn, a native of Orange County, Calif., was seen in South Waziristan, where he is believed to be involved in the production of al Qaeda propaganda tapes. He has appeared several times in the last year on video tapes, predicting the streets of America will "run red with blood" and expressing his glee that the 9/ll attacks took place on "enemy soil."

U.S. law enforcement officials say Gadahn has taken an increasingly prominent role in the hierarchy of al Qaeda. He is believed to report to the No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Pakistani officials say they are "hot on the trail" of Gadahn, although South Waziristan is one of the areas where Pakistani soldiers have been ordered to stay in their barracks as part of a "peace agreement" between the Pakistani government and tribal militants believed to shelter al Qaeda and Taliban elements.

Gadahn was indicted earlier this month by a federal grand jury on charges of providing material support to terrorism. U.S. law enforcement officials say if he is captured inside Pakistan, the indictment will serve as a legal mechanism to have him immediately turned over to U.S. custody.
Maybe John McCain can put him up for a few days, huh?
Posted by:Fred

#21  He is a girly man and vewy welcum in the lands of the Waziri or Baluchi. Zawhaaherewewee welcums him to as a new stable boy for those lonely midnite rides into Miram Shah and remote happy valleys. Go thither and dither young girly man and rideth thy mathsters in yonder dark caves and snuggle up to their smelly hairy arm pits and suck on their flappy lips till you ectasy scream in your sicko lustful perverted coucous-infested pea brain. Dude... I mean duchess, you are not only a loser but will be raped and murdered soon by some lonely boys on flat-tire bicycles in some begotten and forgotten Northwest Frontier province village. You will be forgotten and spat upon by your so-called brother-sisters as they chuckle and joke as they pass by your rotted body. They won't even remember you when they are converting not-so-quick sheep to their moon god by the light of Satan's cresent.
Posted by: Fun Dung Poo   2006-09-19 20:01  

#20  I used to live in OC from 1984 to 99. Towards the end, I was dismayed that the LA infection seemed to be spreading down the Santa Ana freeway.
Posted by: Jackal   2006-09-19 22:19  

#19  Too many hard landings, Frank.
Posted by: Pappy   2006-09-19 20:31  

#18  our neighbor to the north of my San Diego (Orange County) has nothing to apologize for, your blanket condemnations of CA as a land of fruit and nuts pisses me off. The Bay area, Santa Cruz, LA/Santa Monica, maybe, but the interior and the south coastal are strongly red and support our military. I'd demand an apology if I cared enough about the stupid knee-jerk jokes. Remember that the next time you rap the entire state. The state is damn near as big as any three or four combined of those condemning. F*ck it :-(
Posted by: Frank G   2006-09-19 20:11  

#17  Ilive in OC as well, and this is not Johnny Jihads Marin County. This is more like Marine county. There are so many former-Marine judges and lawyers here, the Register once called it, lovingly, the Marine Corps Mafia.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T.   2006-09-19 17:18  

#16  A native of Orange County, CA. No surprise there. San Andreas, why do you not hear my prayers and exhortations? Why have you not move to Pacificize the infidels?

Actually, Orange County is the most conservative area of California, and I don't mean RINO style conservative, I mean Goldwater/Ronald Reagan Conservative. Credit the Santa Ana (now Orange County) Register, a conservative newspaper that always had fun shafting the pretensious editorializing of the Los Angeles Times up north.

I should know: I grew up in OC and read the Register every day. Think Rantburg in print.

My guess is that the county is not squeaky clean of liberals: the vote was about 80% republican, so 20% of the voters are liberals, one of whom probably had a kid who, in righteous indignation against the oppressive and vast Right Wing Conspiracy, elected to join al Qaeda. The vast majority of sane people make the nuts more nutty, I suppose...
Posted by: Ptah   2006-09-19 13:49  

#15  Since he reports to # 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri, does that make him a #3, and thus eligible for being hit??
Posted by: USN, ret.   2006-09-19 13:35  

#14  I most certainly do not, wxjames. There are a great many things I prefer not to think about beyond academic generalities.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-09-19 13:17  

#13  I think that's his high school graduation picture. "Rock on...INFIDEL!"
I hope the next pic we see of him, there won't be anything left from the nose up...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-09-19 13:14  

#12  Well he's certainly got the sheets for it.
That is an old picture. In his big video a couple of weeks ago, he was fat, swathed in sheets and had a nice big bushy beard.
Posted by: J.D. Lux   2006-09-19 13:06  

#11  TW, you mean kneeling down singing baaaaa.
He's got another job in the service industry.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-09-19 12:59  

#10  His hair looks freshly shampooed and brushed, but look at that pathetic attempt at facial hair, the overplucked "unibrow", and the spots covered with tinted Clearasil. He looks like an unjustifiably smug schoolboy playing at being Baaaaad. Which, I suspect, is all they are really letting him do.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-09-19 10:58  

#9  I think I saw a guy in white robes and a turban fleeing the scene.

You say he ducked into Marlow furniture? Ok, fine.....but can you be a bit more specific? That could be any one of 20,000 cab drivers from Quantico to Washington National.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-09-19 10:39  

#8  Just dispatch a fire team and dispose of this mug, please.
Posted by: badanov   2006-09-19 10:35  

#7  Whaddabout DC?

I-395 is shutdown right outside my office for a shooting (?) investigation. I think I saw a guy in white robes and a turban fleeing the scene.

More Al-Q probing, in preparation for the big one Binny warned us about.

Convert now!

The freeway really is shut down, however.
Posted by: Bobby   2006-09-19 10:00  

#6  "spotted last month in a remote area of Pakistan but moved before he could be captured"
Translation: He pays the bribes.

"one of the areas where Pakistani soldiers have been ordered to stay in their barracks"
Translation: Using soldiers as human shields to keep us from glassing over the place.

I've got twenty bucks that says some day we will learn that alQaeda bigwigs live within five miles of the barracks. Maybe even inside the barracks.
Posted by: Darrell   2006-09-19 09:46  

#5  A native of Orange County, CA. No surprise there. San Andreas, why do you not hear my prayers and exhortations? Why have you not move to Pacificize the infidels?

On the bright side:

"That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins." —Jay Leno



Posted by: Besoeker   2006-09-19 09:35  

#4  He'd look a lot better with a .50 cal hole where most of his head used to be.
Posted by: Fred   2006-09-19 09:28  

#3  no extradition if he's captured. Pliars and panties, then a shallow anonymous grave
Posted by: Frank G   2006-09-19 09:19  

#2  No surprise all Al Qaeda/Taliban can be found in Pakistan.

Look forward to the day we can carpet bomb Waziristan/Quetta
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867   2006-09-19 07:55  

#1  The American al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn, was spotted last month in a remote area of Pakistan but moved before he could be captured

Who wants him captured?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-09-19 07:27  

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