Breaking: Back From The Dead? – “New” Gadahn Internet Video
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Were reports of the American jihadist’s demise grossly exaggerated?
LauraMansfield.com is reporting:
A new video from American Al Qaeda Adam Gadahn was released this morning by As Sahab.
The video, 32 minutes, 7 seconds long, is primarily focused on Pakistan. It makes specific references to Musharaff’s resignation and to Pakistan’s new President Asif Zardari.
He says “It’s time for you to put aside tribal, ethnic, and territorial differences and petty worldly disputes not just for now but forever and unite to restore the glories of your forefathers and hasten, Allah willing, the defeat of the Zionist-Crusader enemy and the establishment of the Islamic state, the Ummah, the so eagerly anticipated… and fight the Crusaders and their agents wherever they are and don’t be intimidate by their weak and futile plots”
We are transcribing the video now and will send out a transcript shortly.
American Qaeda figure says U.S. still runs Pakistan
DUBAI, Oct 4 (Reuters) – American al Qaeda militant Adam Gadahn described Pakistan’s new leaders as U.S. puppets in a war against Islamic militants, in an Internet video posted on Saturday.
“The Pakistan Army … and the professional spreaders of lies at their service are trying to make us believe that the state of Pakistan has turned a new leaf (after U.S-allied former President Pervez Musharraf left power),” Gadahn said in the video posted on Islamist websites. “These are not the leaders Pakistan wants and deserves. They are the leaders America wants and preserves in order to reach its policy objectives, hinder the jihad against the Crusaders in Afghanistan … and ensure that nuclear-capable Pakistan remains docile, contained and sharia-free,” Gadahn said.
“Their battle has always been and remains to be America’s battle, not Pakistan’s. And this battle (against Islamic militants) is what has brought Pakistan to the verge of break-up,” said Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American.
Gadahn, born Adam Pearlman, is a California-born convert to Islam and the first American to be charged with treason since the World War Two era. He is believed to be in Pakistan.
Faced with an intensifying Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, U.S. forces in the past month have carried out missile strikes with pilotless drones and a commando raid on the Pakistani side of the border.
The raids have strained relations between the allies. The Pakistani government has protested that the attacks violated territorial sovereignty and undermined its own long term efforts to crush militancy in a country where anti-American sentiment runs high.
But Gadahn dismissed Pakistan’s protests as a “cynical public relations ploy”.
Gadahn has made a number of videotaped messages on behalf of al Qaeda. In January, he urged Islamist militants to welcome President George W. Bush with bombs when he visited the Middle East and tore up his U.S. passport on camera.
Security analysts had speculated in recent months that Gadahn may have been killed in a U.S. air strike.
(Reuters)
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