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2010-03-07 India-Pakistan

Adam Gadahn Captured in Pakistan say Reports

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Posted by Steve White 2010-03-07 13:21|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 the guards at Guantanamo are gonna love him

Posted by chris 2010-03-07 13:36|| 2010-03-07 13:36|| Front Page Top

#2 AP's picked it up...

Adam Gadahn, the treasonous Californian Al Qaeda leader who has long been on Washington's Most Wanted list, was nabbed in Pakistan Sunday - a huge victory.

After some confusion in the intial reports, the Associated Press quoted Pakistani officials confirming the arrest.

Gadahn was bagged just hours after releasing a new internet video urging American Muslims to go on shooting sprees like Maj. Nidal Hasan's at Fort Hood last year.

He is the first American to be charged with treason since World War II.

Posted by tu3031 2010-03-07 13:38|| 2010-03-07 13:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Dawn...

KARACHI: Pakistani security forces along with help of US intelligence arrested Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al- Adam, who is a close associate of Osama Bin Laden. Abu Yahya was arrested on Sunday from an area surrounding the super highway, on the outskirts of Karachi.

Sources confirmed that the arrested militant commander has been shifted to Islamabad for further investigation.

Pennsylvania-born Abu Yahya is a US citizen and assumed to be a commander of foreign militants fighting in Afghanistan against the US. He was living with Osama Bin Ladin after 9/11 attacks in New York. His name is included in the top ten wanted on the CIA list.

Posted by tu3031 2010-03-07 13:48|| 2010-03-07 13:48|| Front Page Top

#4 He was living with Osama Bin Ladin after 9/11 attacks in New York.

Bad translation, or ...?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-07 14:03|| 2010-03-07 14:03|| Front Page Top

#5 they shared a Snuggie

/NTTAWWT

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-07 14:04|| 2010-03-07 14:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Leave the interrogation to the Pakis and don't let the ACLU directed CIA near him, otherwise many plots will not be uncovered.

Posted by HammerHead 2010-03-07 14:11|| 2010-03-07 14:11|| Front Page Top

#7 ABC is saying he was picked up "several days ago."

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-03-07 14:17|| 2010-03-07 14:17|| Front Page Top

#8 It's time for an old fashioned hanging, boys!

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2010-03-07 14:26|| http://northshorejournal.org 2010-03-07 14:26|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm not picky, Chuck - I'd be satisfied if someone in Pakistand shot him. Whether in an "escape" attempt or not....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-07 14:33|| 2010-03-07 14:33|| Front Page Top

#10 A background question - has this guy actually done anything, other than act as AQ's Tokyo Rose/Axis Sally? Granted, there's the precedent for the treason charge, but is it just all talk, or is there an allegation that he's actually joined in violence?

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-03-07 14:33|| 2010-03-07 14:33|| Front Page Top

#11 If Gitmo and Baghram are no longer accepting detainees, who gets him? Although if the Pakistanis have had him for several days, let the ACLU take them on for violation of his "human rights". I think a case could be made for a floating sovereign US brig in international waters.....

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-03-07 14:41|| 2010-03-07 14:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Holder will probably go for Dearborn Municipal Holding Facility.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-03-07 14:43|| 2010-03-07 14:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Fox is reporting they have confirmed Abu Yahya Azam was taken into custody in Karachi.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-03-07 14:49|| 2010-03-07 14:49|| Front Page Top

#14 I truly hope that this clown gets a bullet in Pakistan, because a treason trial would be a disaster. He likely would get convicted of some other charge, because far too many in power are nervous about treason as a criminal charge. Then it would be off to the already overcrowded ADX, which is a waste of expensive prison cell.

Worst of all, he would continue to be used as an excuse to *not* racially profile. Racial profiling works, and the Europeans do it because it works. For the US to pretend that gray haired Swedish grandmothers in wheelchairs need to be strip searched by the TSA because they *might* be a Muslim suicide bomber is b.s.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-07 14:58|| 2010-03-07 14:58|| Front Page Top

#15 I am guessing Eric Holder can't wait to represent this fine Amerikan. Let's hope he is really captured and not just getting new orders from Pakistan.

On a positive note it appears someone at the near top of Al Qaeda is finally ratting out his fellow extremists.

Posted by airandee 2010-03-07 15:02|| 2010-03-07 15:02|| Front Page Top

#16 The Holder Justice Dept would probably work out a deal so he does community service with ACORN.

Posted by lord garth 2010-03-07 15:02|| 2010-03-07 15:02|| Front Page Top

#17 The reason for my question in the string above is that while Mr. wahtever his name is has been the propagandist, unless he's done worse, in all liklihood if AG Holder gets ahold of him, he may get convicted, but with only a short sentence.

I've seen this ending twice before - Axis Sally ended up living out her life a few miles down the road from me in Ohio, and Tokyo Rose just died 3 years ago about ten El stops away from me on the north side of Chicago.

Unless the Pakistani's take care of this guy, he'll likely end up back in LA in about 10 years - and he'll only be 40ish.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-03-07 15:10|| 2010-03-07 15:10|| Front Page Top

#18 ABC sez he was caught a couple days ago...

almost as if the Paks knew where he was all along, go figure

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-07 15:18|| 2010-03-07 15:18|| Front Page Top

#19 "Unless the Pakistani's take care of this guy, he'll likely end up back in LA in about 10 years - and he'll only be 40ish."

True, Halliburton - but if it happens I'll bet he'll never be 41ish.

Just sayin'.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-07 15:35|| 2010-03-07 15:35|| Front Page Top

#20 He is the first American to be charged with treason since World War II.

Rope, some assembly required.

I've always considered Adam more of a AQ wannabee, but I've gotten way tired of his shiat on Youtube.

Did he renounce his American citizenship? Somehow, I think he did. If he did, throw him in Gitmo. Otherwise, I'll buy the popcorn for the Rantburgers.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-03-07 15:48|| 2010-03-07 15:48|| Front Page Top

#21 Agreed Barbara, but I think Mizzou has the answer - the POTUS and AG won't let him anywhere near US soil. He may get here in the Palin administration, with AG Levin handling the treason prosecution - but 10-15 years is a long time - he'll be quietly renamed John Doe and halfway housed somewhere forever after all that.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-03-07 16:15|| 2010-03-07 16:15|| Front Page Top

#22
He renounced his citizenship and burned his passport on video.

Can we bring back public hangings? I'd love to see this treasonous motherfather swinging at the end of a rope.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-03-07 16:16|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-03-07 16:16|| Front Page Top

#23 I suppose I'll be the odd one out here.

He should be brought to the US and tried for what he is charged with: treason.

Reasons:

1) he is an American citizen
2) he is charged with treason
3) it provides the DoJ and Bambi with an opportunity to prove that they are serious

There is virtually no doubt in my mind that he would be convicted if tried. A smart, tough federal judge would disallow most if not all the showmanship Gadahn and his lawyers might try. A jury of reasonable Americans would not be swayed by any of the showmanship that did get through.

He is an American citizen. I have no problem jugging a non-American terrorist forever in Gitmo, Bagram or Ice Station Zebra. You raise a hand against us and you get what you get.

I shall maintain, however, that an American citizen enjoys the protection of the Constitution even he takes up arms against us, at least long enough for him to be judged guilty of treason and hanged.

I also confess that I want to see what Holder and Bambi would do. Would they have the moral courage to see that Gadahn gets a proper trial? That the trial not be turned into a circus? That the prosecutors go for the max?

The answers would be illuminating.

Posted by Steve White 2010-03-07 16:23|| 2010-03-07 16:23|| Front Page Top

#24 more illuminating than previous inactions? I'd agree if we didn't have an administration that actively supports (via nonaction) voter intimidation by the NBP as well as chummily relations with noted terrorists Ayres and Dorne. The POS that is Adam Gadahn should be given the McVeigh treatment (which even Clinton concurred with) and needled. I have my doubts this group supports that. We already know which side they're on. It's not a prosperous, powerful, force of western-values America

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-07 16:29|| 2010-03-07 16:29|| Front Page Top

#25 it provides the DoJ and Bambi with an opportunity to prove that they are serious

If they were serious Gadahn would be dead.

Posted by badanov 2010-03-07 16:31|| 2010-03-07 16:31|| Front Page Top

#26 I'd agree with Dr. Steve once he's in U. S. custody. Until then he's a Pak detainee. Under the Geneva Conventions he should be shot as a spy in a summary execution by the Pak Army.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-03-07 16:45|| 2010-03-07 16:45|| Front Page Top

#27 I suppose I'll be the odd one out here.

He should be brought to the US and tried for what he is charged with: treason.

Reasons:
1) he is an American citizen

Steve White, he apparently denounced his citizenship and burned his passport.

Actions should have consequences, IMO.

But then again, this is the same administration that wants to give KSM the full rights of an American citizen.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-03-07 16:49|| 2010-03-07 16:49|| Front Page Top

#28 Photo of Goatboy from Dawn. Clearly he's getting Geneva Convention compliant treatment.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-03-07 16:56|| 2010-03-07 16:56|| Front Page Top

#29 can I have his head?

I have a space on the wall between my polar bear rug and my baby fur seal pelt...or maybe next to the moose or the AP reporter I whacked in Baghdad?

Posted by Karl Rove 2010-03-07 16:59|| 2010-03-07 16:59|| Front Page Top

#30 lol NS - I expect they'll have to burn that bag from the smell....

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-07 17:16|| 2010-03-07 17:16|| Front Page Top

#31

Take your truther-ism and go elsewhere, Gomez. We don't allow that nonsense here.

-- AoS, moderator.

Posted by Gomez Clusoger5182 2010-03-07 17:20|| 2010-03-07 17:20|| Front Page Top

#32
Steve, traitors are not citizens and have no rights.

Note: Fox News has NOT run on this story on air or online. 48 hour rule?

Posted by Parabellum 2010-03-07 17:32|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-03-07 17:32|| Front Page Top

#33 Traitors most certainly are citizens. That's why you can execute them for treason.

Posted by Steve White 2010-03-07 18:12|| 2010-03-07 18:12|| Front Page Top

#34 I believe he did renounce his citizenship (for what that's worth) in a video. He's certainly a traitor, but I really question this Admin's and Congressional/judicial stones to follow through. Couldn't be a much clearer case with all the vids, intel, etc. Yet, I see a "but what about..." bullshit defense. Lucky most of those defense-whores are already employed on our dollar at the DOJ, huh?

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-07 18:20|| 2010-03-07 18:20|| Front Page Top

#35 Let's not get too excited.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/world/asia/08qaeda.html?hp

Excerpt: American and Pakistani officials said the man arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam, who was described as having been born in Pennsylvania and who was thought to be affiliated with the operations division of Al Qaeda, commanding fighters in Afghanistan.

Little else was known about him, American officials said, and it was not immediately clear that American officials were involved in the arrest.

Initial reports seemed to have confused the American with Adam Gadahn, a California native who has been a spokesman for Al Qaeda and often appears on videos calling for strikes against targets in the United States.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-03-07 18:25|| 2010-03-07 18:25|| Front Page Top

#36
Traitors most certainly are citizens. That's why you can execute them for treason.

Traitors most certainly WEre citizens. That's why you can execute them for treason.

FTFY, Steve.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-03-07 18:26|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-03-07 18:26|| Front Page Top

#37 Got a more reliable source, Phester?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-07 18:28|| 2010-03-07 18:28|| Front Page Top

#38 CBS is also correcting the report - not Gadahn.

That is, after all, why there's a 48 hour rule.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-03-07 18:38|| 2010-03-07 18:38|| Front Page Top

#39 who cares if he is a citizen, he's an enemy throw him out of a helicopter

Posted by chris 2010-03-07 18:40|| 2010-03-07 18:40|| Front Page Top

#40 Here's the CBS story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/07/world/main6275953.shtml

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-03-07 18:40|| 2010-03-07 18:40|| Front Page Top

#41 i believe i remember one his sayings " the streets of America will run red with our blood"

Posted by chris 2010-03-07 18:40|| 2010-03-07 18:40|| Front Page Top

#42 He is the first American to be charged with treason since World War II.

Nobody's got the balls any more to hang these bas+ards.

Posted by gorb 2010-03-07 18:44|| 2010-03-07 18:44|| Front Page Top

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