American Al Qaeda leader, Adam Gadahn, captured

[ck4829]

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

After some confusion in the intial reports, the Associated Press quoted Pakistani officials confirming the arrest of Osama bin Laden's mouthpiece.

The Dawn, Karachi's English-language newspaper, broke the news with a photo of a man being taken away with a bag on his head.

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.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/03/07/2010-03-07_american_al_qaeda_terrorist_adam_gadahn_aka_azzam_the_american_arrested_in_pakis.html#ixzz0hWBa2ld0

I hope this will also raise questions about so-called "enhanced interrogations". Now that the guy in handcuffs is a white American, things like waterboarding and such will now be off the table, right conservatives?

[cliffordu]

1. Good. Watching that little prick do jail time is going to be really funny.

He can Jihad till he drops.

I don't do traitors very well.

[sixmile]

2. Americans go on shooting sprees on their own just fine

They don't need any more urging from Al Qaeda.

[bridgit]

3. No Shit! Like all of a sudden we need this dumb ass to triangulate *our* violence...

When he should be co-opting his own

[NJmaverick]

4. Very good news!

[cali]

5. he's a strange one. wasn't he from a jewish family?

[Behind the Aegis]

10. According to Wikipedia:

Gadahn's Jewish paternal grandfather, Carl Pearlman, was a prominent urologist; according to Gadahn, he was a "zealous supporter" of Israel.<7><8> Gadahn's paternal grandmother, Agnes Branch, was an editor for The Chronicle Christian Newspaper.<9>

Gadahn's father, originally Phil Pearlman, grew up in Orange County, California. He was involved in the counterculture movement at the University of California at Irvine, and before Adam's birth became a Christian. He and his wife Jennifer changed their name to Gadahn, after the Biblical warrior Gideon.<2>

Gadahn was born in Oregon and raised and homeschooled through high school by his parents on an isolated farm in Southern California.<2> He played Little League baseball and participated in Christian homeschool support groups. As an adolescent he became very involved in the death metal community, making contact with fans and musicians through alternative magazines. During the summer of 1993, he formed his own one-man band called Aphasia.<2> Gadahn contributed music reviews and artwork to a zine called Xenocide.

In 1995, at age 16, Gadahn moved in with his grandparents in the Floral Park neighborhood of Santa Ana, California, where he worked in a computer store and explored the Internet.<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Yahiye_Gadahn

[malaise]

6. This fucks up Cheney some more

so I like it. :rofl:

Details coming up on CNN in two minutes.

[sixmile]

7. Pics of the twerp

[tekisui]

8. He must not have been too careful when he recently went public.

Good they caught him. He wasn't a real threat, but was a real asshole.

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. Only a fool would believe that this guy was unknown to the ISI in Paksitan

The Pakistanis did not just happen upon this guy. Ultimately, there was something to be gained by delivering this clueless dupe to the US. I have no doubt the Pakastanis viewed this kid as merely a bargaining chip that they would deal when the time was right.

[Throd]

9. No, I'm pretty sure conservatives want to skin him alive.