Adam Gadahn arrested in Pakistan? If true, this is significant.

[Windy]

A major win for Obama. Gadahn is directly linked to bin laden and alzawahiri.

http://newsolio.com/adam-gadahn-captured-in-pakistan-say-reports,6336

[Windy]

1. NBC is reporting it now.... nt

[Turbineguy]

2. The GOP will have to think up

some phony countermeasure.

[dave29]

3. Major, he is part of the leadership, and has been a propaganda mouthpiece

for some time.. I am starting to get the feeling we are getting close(er) to the top.

[annabanana]

4. eat THAT you,... you,.... Cheneys. . . n/t

Sorry. "Cheney" is the harshest epithet I can come up with.

[dave29]

5. although most other news outlets saying he has just released a video

praising the Ft. Hood shooter -- I would take this story with a huge grain of salt


then again hearing on NBC... gah. If nabbed day of releasing video... major coup

[RainDog]

6. I always thought he was... interesting. a person of interest

probably because I'm so cynical, but I always thought he must have been a plant. No doubt he had to kill people to show he was on the side of the jihadists in return for inside information.

but maybe he's just an ordinary sick fuck.

[Tailormyst]

13. He's just another extremist

His views warped when he was still very young and I am glad they caught him. I do feel for his parents though, in some strange way.

[dave29]

7. Another report saying Abu Yahya captured -- maybe two reports are getting confused. Either good

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/22-intelligence-agencies-arrested-al-qaeda-commander-abu-yahya-in-karachi-03-aj

The article seems to confuse him with Gadahn... they are not the same.

[pinto]

8. AP reporting that Yahya was one alias used by Gadahn -

The 31-year-old is known by various aliases including Yahya Majadin Adams and Azzam al-Amriki.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100307/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_al_qaida_arrest

:shrug:

[dave29]

9. ah I was thinking of Abu Yahya al-libi

who is in the senior leadership

[tekisui]

22. I have seen both names mentioned.

It isn't for sure who is in custody. It was either Adam Gadahn, Abu Yahya al-libi or both.

al-libi would be more significant, Gadahn perhaps more symbolic. There are reports that Gadahn was never fully trusted to AQ, and may have been served up.

[malaise]

15. True but the caption says Taliban not Al Qaida

Isn't he Al Qaida?

sp.

[pinto]

16. May be an editorial glitch. Headline for the brief blurb says al-Qaida.

:shrug:

[malaise]

19. Thanks n/t

[malaise]

10. A mjaor kick in the heartless gut of

the Dick and his daughter.

[Tailormyst]

11. I really hope so.

[Poll_Blind]

12. Gadahn, hands down, is the WEIRDEST member of Al Queda. Period.

If anyone reads this and doesn't know about him, Wiki him at least. He's right up there with some of the characters associated with the Kennedy Assassination.

PB

[JI7]

21. wasn't there some American Rapper who joined Al QAeda ?

not anyone well known. but some american. his videos almost looked like something from SNL.

[Poll_Blind]

24. Hadn't heard about that but probably wouldn't be surprised. The world's getting weirder all the...

...time.

PB

[Poll_Blind]

14. BTW, Obama about to speak LIVE on CNN about Iraq vote- Gadahn will almost certainly come up.

I'm sure you can find it other places (C-Span?) but CNN's got a link to it right now. Just showing a live shot of the podium at the moment.

PB

[Kingofalldems]

17. Freepers are not liking this one-

[robdogbucky]

18. Gadahn grew up on a goat farm

He was captured it appears a few days ago and is being "interrogated," by Pakistani intelligence. BTW has anyone else read the bio for this guy? NNOHLI linked it in another thread, really interesting. Another home-grown version of those evil-doers. Let's see which anti-terrorism policy stopped this guy from blooming. One thing about this report is that they interviewed Dawud Walid. Isn't he famous for previous quotes?


Officers: Pakistan arrests American-born al-Qaida
Sunday, March 07, 2010
By ASHRAF KHAN
Associated Press Writer

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country...

...Gadahn has appeared in more than half a dozen al-Qaida videos, taunting and threatening the West and calling for its destruction. A U.S. court charged Gadahn with treason in 2006, making him the first American to face such a charge in more than 50 years...

...The intelligence officials said Gadahn was being interrogated by Pakistani officials. Pakistani agents and those from the CIA work closely on some operations in Pakistan, but it was not clear if any Americans were involved in the operation or questioning...

...Appearing in 2006, in a 48-minute video along with al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, Gadahn called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars..."

http://www.kcbs.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/National/a/i/AS--Pakistan-Al-Qaida


Why isn't there one way to spell AQ? In this article it is Al Qaida, on the terrorist wanted poster it is Al Qaeda:

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/gadahn_a.htm


Wait a minute, isn't that the guy that used to work at the record store?



Just my dos centavos


robdobbucky

[TexasObserver]

20. Hope they got this guy Gadahn.

I want this war nonsense concluded, and all the little things that can point to "victory" so we can leave works for me.

[Flaneur]

23. Not confirmed by US officials as of Sunday evening.

Could be another American with "Adam" in his name.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100307/alqaeda_attacks_100307?s_name=