American Jihadist Killed in Drone Strike Was Former Little Leaguer Who Grew Up to Become Osama Bin Laden's Spokesman

DAILY MAIL: Adam Gadahan [sic] was born in Oregon in 1978 as Adam Pearlman / Was first American to be charged with treason since Second World War / Converted to Islam at the age of 17 while living in Orange County, California / A few years later he moved to Pakistan and became an Al Qaeda propagandist

Adam Gadahn, a former Little Leaguer who grew up to become a spokesman for Osama bin Laden, was born in 1978 in Oregon as Adam Pearlman.

Gadahn, who had treason charges pending against him, was killed in a drone strike in January, the White House acknowledged on Thursday. Another January drone strike killed Ahmed Farouq, the operations leader for Al-Qaida in Pakistan, as well as an American hostage and an Italian hostage.

Gadahn's father, a musician in California, changed his name from Pearlman to Gadahn in the 1970s. Gadahn, who was raised as a Protestant Christian, grew up and was home-schooled on a goat farm in Riverside County, California. Read on and comment » | Wills Robinson for DailyMail.com and Associated Press | Thurday, April 23, 2015

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Al-Qaida ruft zu neuen Anschlägen auf

DIE PRESSE: In dem 100 Minuten langen Video wird zu Terroranschlägen gegen westliche und jüdische Ziele aufgerufen.

Einen Monat nach der Tötung von Terroristenchef Osama bin Laden hat das Terrornetzwerk al-Qaida zu neuen Anschlägen aufgerufen. In einem Video sagte nach US-Medienangaben vom Freitag der in den USA geborene al-Qaida-Sprecher Adam Gadahn auf Englisch, Muslime sollten Terroranschläge gegen westliche und jüdische Ziele verüben. » | APA | Samstag 04. Juni 2011

Al-Kaida ruft zu Anschlägen in den USA und Europa auf
KRONE: Ein amerikanischer Sprecher des Terrornetzwerks Al-Kaida hat Muslime zu Anschlägen in den USA und Europa aufgerufen. In einem Video, das am Samstag auf einer von Extremisten betriebenen Internetseite veröffentlicht wurde, richtet sich Adam Gadahn (Bild) an Einwanderer islamischen Glaubens in den "erbärmlichen Vororten" von Paris, London und Detroit sowie an Gaststudenten und -arbeiter. >>> | Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2010

Video Tells Muslims to Attack U.S., Europe
FORT WAYNE JOURNAL GAZETTE: CAIRO – A U.S.-born al-Qaida spokesman on Saturday urged Muslims living in the United States and Europe to carry out attacks there.

In a 48-minute video posted on militant websites, Adam Gadahn directed his appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he called the “miserable suburbs” of Paris, London and Detroit, as well as those in the West for study or work.

“It is the duty of everyone who is sincere in his desire to defend Islam and Muslims today, to take the initiative to perform the individual obligation of jihad ... by striking the Zio-Crusader interests,” he said, referring to Western and Jewish interests.

Gadahn, who has been hunted by the FBI since 2004, also sought to discredit attempts by moderate Muslim leaders to suppress the “jihadi awakening.”

He spoke in Arabic in the video, which was made available by the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity. [Source: FWJG] Associated Press | Sunday, October 24, 2010

U.S.-born Al Qaida Spokesman, Adam Gadahn, Speaks
USA TODAY: Al-Qaida's U.S.-born spokesman, Adam Gadahn, has repeated the militant group's conditions for peace with America. Among other things, he's calling on President Obama to withdraw his troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and end support for Israel.

Adam Gadahn, Al Qaeda Agent from Southern California, Is Arrested in Pakistan
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Gadahn is wanted by the U.S. on charges of treason. In his apparent primary role as propagandist for the terrorist network, Gadahn appeared in videos. The latest praised the accused Fort Hood shooter.

Gadahn appears at left in an undated handout photo, and at right in a video released by Al Qaeda in 2006. Photograph: Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan - Security forces in the southern port city of Karachi have arrested Adam Gadahn, a Southern California native who became a top propagandist for Al Qaeda and is wanted by the U.S. on treason charges, Pakistani intelligence sources in Karachi said Sunday.

The capture of Gadahn becomes the starkest signal yet that Pakistan has decided to ratchet up its cooperation with the U.S. in hunting down Islamic militants. In the last two months, Pakistani security forces have seized several top Afghan Taliban commanders, including the insurgency's second in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.

Baradar's arrest and the capture of other Taliban leaders also have occurred in Karachi, which increasingly has become a favored sanctuary for Pakistani and Afghan Taliban leaders and militants. Gadahn's arrest took place on the city's outskirts, intelligence sources said, on a highway near where Baradar was believed to have been arrested.

Gadahn, whose most recent video, posted Sunday, praised the U.S. Army major charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, was arrested in a pickup truck with a driver Saturday night, the sources said. The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on such issues. >>> Alex Rodriguez | Sunday, March 07, 2010

Pakistan: Al-Kaida rächt ihren Sprecher mit Video
20MINUTEN.ch: Der in den USA geborene Al-Kaida-Sprecher Adam Gadahn ist in der pakistanischen Hafenstadt Karachi vom Geheimdienst gefasst worden. Die Kaida veröffentlichte darauf ein Video, in dem Gedahn die Muslime aufruft, den Amoklauf auf der US-Militärbasis in Fort Hood zum Vorbild zu nehmen.

Al-Kaida-Sprecher Adam Gadahn in einem Video, das am 7. März 2010, dem Tag seiner Verhaftung, von Al-Kaida versandt wurde. Bild: 20Minuten.ch
Die Gefangennahme des 31-jährigen Al-Kaida-Sprechers Gadahn erfolgte bereits vor einigen Tagen, wie am Sonntag aus pakistanischen Geheimdienst- und Regierungskreisen verlautete. Die Verhaftung gilt als ein grosser Erfolg des von den USA geführten Kampfs gegen Al Kaida. >>> ddp | Sonntag, 07. März 2010

Al-Qaeda's American Member Talks of Jewish Roots
YNET NEWS: Adam Yahiye Gadahn, one of most known speakers of global terror organization, releases video in which he talks of his Zionist grandfather who tried to convince him to visit Israel

Al-Qaeda's American activist Adam Yahiye Gadahn released a new video on Saturday in which he denounces Israel and the United States and talks about his Jewish ancestry for the first time.

Gadahn, who is known as the American Azzam and is on the FBI's most wanted list, spoke about his Zionist grandfather, who used to encourage him to visit Israel.

"Let me here tell you something about myself and my biography, in which there is a benefit and a lesson…Your speaker has Jews in his ancestry, the last of whom was his grandfather," he said in the video. Gadahn grew up in California, converted to Islam in the 1990s, moved to Pakistan and joined the global terror organization.

Gadahn said his grandfather was a "Zionist" and "a zealous supporter of the usurper entity, and a prominent member of a number of Zionist hate organizations."

"He used to repeat to me what he claimed are the virtues of this entity and encouraged me to visit it, specifically the city of Tel Aviv, where relatives of ours live," said Gadahn, referring to Israel.

According to the terror operative, his grandfather gave him a book by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "A Place Among the Nations" in which the "rabid Zionist" sets out "feeble arguments and unmasked lies to justify the Jews' rape of Muslim Palestine." >>> Ynet | Sunday, June 14, 2009

Adam Gadahn Is Alive and Kicking

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS (ARUTZ SHEVA): After much speculation that he was killed in an American airstrike, al-Qaeda's American-born spokesman Adam Gadahn (AKA "Azzam the American") has shown up in a new video released this past weekend. While focusing on Pakistan, he makes several references to the "Zio-Crusader" enemy and calls on Muslims to set aside their temporal national, ethnic or tribal differences for the sake of unity in the jihad for Islam.

The convert to Islam, born Adam Pearlman, is wanted by the FBI for his alleged role in developing al-Qaeda propaganda in Pakistan. In addition to Gadahn, the new recording also contains video of Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the chief al-Qaeda terrorist responsible for coordinating with the Taliban, as well as audio of Osama Bin-Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.



In the video, filmed by al-Qaeda's media arm al-Sahab, Gadahn ridicules the new Pakistani government as a puppet of the Crusaders and Jews. He and others appearing in the video call on Pakistan's soldiers and people to refuse to aid in the fight against the jihadists and to attack caravans belonging to Western forces traveling through Pakistan. The soldiers are called upon to disrupt anti-jihad operations and to work for the imposition of Islamic law in Pakistan. 



Gadahn states that jihadist victory in Indian Kashmir and in Afghanistan has been prevented thus far by Pakistani "hypocrites" fighting against the jihad. Kashmir is mentioned several times, with calls to liberate the jihad in Kashmir from the control of the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency. In addition, he says, the West's main concern is that nuclear-armed Pakistan not fall to the jihadists - an outcome al-Qaeda is seeking to foment with the help of local cells. Al-Qaeda’s American Spokesman Is Alive and Kicking >>> By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz | October 6, 2008

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Adam Gadahn Is Thought to Have Been Killed
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Western intelligence sources in Pakistan believe that al-Qa'eda's prize American recruit and propaganda chief may have been killed in a CIA-directed airstrike.

Months of attacks by unmanned US predator aircraft have caused carnage among the middle ranks of terrorist leaders in the lawless lands along the border with Afghanistan, where al-Qa'eda remains dangerous despite suffering a serious defeat in Iraq.

Their victims have included experienced Arab leaders and, it is now thought, Adam Gadahn, a former heavy-metal fan and so-called "killer computer nerd" originally from California. Nothing has been heard from him for months, leading intelligence experts to conclude that he may be dead.

Mr Gadahn has been credited with helping transform al-Qa'eda's al-Sahab propaganda wing into a slick operation which communicates in fluent English and produces professional quality DVDs, including one for Osama bin Laden last year.

But he may have fallen victim to an expanded programme of predator assassinations which in the last year has targeted and killed many of al-Qa'eda's military commanders, terrorist trainers and facilitators.

Jihadists around the world will be watching as closely as intelligence officials this week to see whether Mr Gadahn - also known as Azzam al-Ameriki - produces a new video message to mark September 11, as he has done every year since 2003.

If there is no message it will be taken as near certain confirmation that he is dead – killed either in a strike by Hellfire missiles, or perhaps by jihadi colleagues who have grown jealous of his success.

Mr Gadahn is now thought to have been killed in an attack launched from a remotely piloted aircraft in January which killed al-Qaeda's then military commander, Abu Laith al-Libi, in Mir Ali, Waziristan. Al-Qa'eda's American-born Propaganda Chief May Have Died in Predator Attack >>> By Nick Meo | September 7, 2008

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Al-Qaida veut accueillir Bush avec des bombes
LE FIGARO: A quelques jours de la venue de George Bush au Proche-Orient, un militant américain d'al-Qaida a appelé les islamistes à l'accueillir «avec des bombes et des voitures piégées».

Pour sa première vidéo de 2008, al-Qaida a adressé un message très personnel à George W. Bush qui entame mercredi sa première tournée au Proche-Orient. Adam Yahiye Gadahn, un militant américain considéré comme le porte-parole anglophone du réseau d'Oussama Ben Laden, appelle les islamistes à recevoir le président américain «non pas avec des fleurs et des applaudissements, mais avec des bombes et des voitures piégées».

Dans son enregistrement diffusé sur un site radical qu'il emaille de versets coraniques et de psalmodies du Coran , celui que l'on surnomme «Azzam l'Américain » dresse également un bilan des «victoires» sur les Etats-Unis des moudjahidines en Afghanistan, en Irak et au Maghreb. Lors de cette allocution de 50 minutes enregistrée en décembre, il s'en prend particulièrement aux alliés traditionnels de Washington, les présidents pakistanais Pervez Musharraf, égyptien Hosni Moubarak et au roi Abdallah d'Arabie saoudite qui recevront George Bush. Al-Qaida veut accueillir Bush avec des bombes >>>

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Mujahid Adam Gadahn: “Legitimate Demands”
With many thanks to Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch for drawing my attention, through his excellent website, to this video showing the venomous, bitter and megalomaniacal nature in this man and all that follow this murderous ideology:

KUWAIT TIMES: DUBAI: An American member of Al-Qaeda warned in an Internet video that US President George W. Bush should withdraw all his troops from Muslim land or face attacks worse than September 11. Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam and the first American to be charged with treason since the World War Two era, issued a list of demands which he said were not up for negotiation. "Your failure to heed our demands means that you and your people... will experience things that will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Virginia Tech," he said in the video posted on Tuesday. Qaeda warns of attacks 'worse than 9/11' (more)

EL MUNDO:
Al Qaeda amenaza con ataques peores al 11-S si EEUU no deja la 'tierra del Islam'

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