Dubai.– An American al Qaeda militant urged Islamist militants to welcome President George W. Bush with bombs when he visits the Middle East this week and tore up his U.S. passport on camera.
"Welcome him not with flowers and applause but with bombs and traps," Adam Gadahn said in an Arabic aside on a 50-minute video posted on the internet on Sunday, which was mostly recorded in English and aimed at the American public.
Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, said the jihad against the United States would continue until it released Muslims from its jails. He complained about the treatment of jailed U.S. Islamist militant John Walker Lindh, and others.
In a theatrical move, he took his U.S. passport from his breast pocket and showed its pages on camera before ripping it up in protest at the treatment of Muslim detainees.
"The jihad against you will remain our duty as long as there remains even one Muslim in American captivity," Gadahn said.
"That is why it is incumbent upon you (the American people) to take the steps necessary to force the regime in Washington to free each and every one of them, wherever they are and whatever their supposed crime."
In an earlier tape in May, he warned of attacks worse than the Sept 11. suicide hijackings against the United States.
The treason charge against Gadahn carries a maximum punishment of death. The FBI has been seeking to question Gadahn since 2004 and the U.S. government has offered up to $1 million cash reward for information leading to his arrest.
Gadahn converted to Islam from a Jewish-Christian family when he was 17 and a few years later moved to Pakistan. He was previously known as Adam Pearlman and grew up on a goat ranch outside Los Angeles.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
Like all murderers, the followers of Osama bin-Laden know no remorse, nor do they apologize for their henious crimes against humanity. They, like many religious fanatics, consider themselves above the laws of man and place their own interpretation on the laws of God (Allah). They are without a doubt the scourge of mankind and with the souls of theDevil (Satan).
The History of Religious Fanaticism is well recorded and should be studied by all thinking persons who seek peaceful co-existence for all mankind.
These people seek only to destroy civilizations and to impose their narrow and sick interpretaations on the whole of mankind.
They are all intent on controlling the world to their own benefit without regard to individual human rights and progress.
Stand up against them, for they are bullies and cowards and will retreat in the face of concentrated opposition to their efforts.
TB
Written by: Belial, 6 Jan 2008 4:57 PM
From: United States, Texas
Perhaps, this guy takes this lamentable attitude because Bush initiated a chain of events -- the US-led aggression, occupation, oil theft, and genocide in Iraq ... in a word "the war" ... that has already cost 1.2 million Iraqi lives, based on a batch of US imperialist lies and false propaganda about WMDs and Iraqi masterminding 9/11.
Or perhaps, this guy only wants the publicity.
After all, US reactionaries insist that killing 1.2 million is not a bad thing to do. Indeed, some US reactionaries are disappointed in Bush because he hasn't killed 10 million Iraqis or, in other words, the the "surge" has gone far enough. They believe Bush should exploit the phony and US-manufactured "civil war" among Iraqis to a greater extent.
For details on the US-sponsored genocide, see:
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78This guy dressed in holy rags ... who boldly tears up his passport ... probably hasn't hit anybody.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
I really pity you, for you have nothing to depend on except your malignant hate against the country which nurtured you and gave you the opportunity to become a person to be respected and lookedup to within your community.
obviously, you blew it and now you blame everyone else for your falures to become a human being in your own right.
it is a pity that you haven't the courage to write for a local periodical in Houston. I attribute thatto your cowardice and reluctance to face the wrath of your fellow Texans who wouldn't put up with your hateful dialogue for even one minute.
You seem to forget, or shall I say, ignore, that it was the cowardly attack against 4000++ innocent souls that started the retribution cycle against Saddam Hussain, Osama bin-laden and theyr followers. it hasn't been American bullets that have killed the 1.2 million Iraquis, bu rather the bullets and bombs from the fanatical religious sects themselves wo have murdered those people.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
While it was wrongly interpreted intelligence reporting that was used in justification, it has been the Iraqi politicians who have prolonged the conflict.
Your commentary is mistaken and completely false, as are your other comments. Your reasoning is fallacious from any logical angle.
Your attempts to re-write history fall far short of proving any of your previous remarks and your most recent one is a shining example of a hate filled agenda.4
I challange you to publish some of your diatribes in the Houston Post or the Houston Chronicle and test the reception your commentaries receive.
Do you have guts enough to do that? I seriously doubt it, otherwise you wouldn't be seeking noteriety through publication in a foreign periodical.
Do you have the intellect and vocabulary to produce a readible dialogue in the written form of a book??
I seriously doubt it.
TB
Written by: Jander, 6 Jan 2008 9:51 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Right On! TB , I know I couldn't have said it better myself.
I don't agree with everything GWB has done but clearly the threat is there and will always be there.
And the best defense is a good offense.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
Jander;
I don't agree with everything that my fellow Texas, GWB has done and said either and will be very glad when his tenure of office is completed. Perhaps then, we will begin to see some progress in our "AT HOME" conflicts which have their roots in the GWB Policies.
I just hope that the Independents have the numerical strength to combat both the Democratic AND the Republican rhetoric being spread at this time in our history.
Neither has produced a viable candidae to date an I don't think they have anyone currently in office that has the political will to turn the nation back into the one it was when I was growing up.
Somewhere along theline, the politicians have managed to sell out to their greed and avarice.
Where are the Statesmen who are dedicated to true democracy?
TB
From: United States, New Jersey
Please .. . Who cares for GWB anyway .. ?
Written by: Belial, 7 Jan 2008 12:20 PM
From: United States, Texas
"I really pity you, for you have nothing to depend on except your malignant hate against the country which nurtured you and gave you the opportunity to become a person to be respected and lookedup to within your community."
000000
If is your apologies and indifference toward the 1.2 million Iraqis mass terminated by US imperialism, after March 2003, under the pretext of WMDs, 9/11, and the US-manufactured "civil war" that evidences a maglignant hate of the USA and all of humanity.
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78Your hate is Nazi kind of hate.
Written by: Belial, 7 Jan 2008 12:28 PM
From: United States, Texas
"I challange you to publish some of your diatribes in the Houston Post or the Houston Chronicle and test the reception your commentaries receive. "
The Houston Post hasn't existed for 20 years after the Chronicle ate the Post. The Chronicle has published numberous articles of mine. The reception was that US reactionaries resented what I said. US independents didn't care one way or another about what I wrote. And US liberals loved my ideas. It is pretty much the same reaction at Dominican Today.
Written by: Belial, 7 Jan 2008 12:32 PM
From: United States, Texas
"And the best defense is a good offense."
00000
So, the best defense is genocide. The best defense is doing evil to those you falsely accuse of crimes like WMDs, 9/11, and phony "civil war." So, the best defense is to act on lies. This best defense reflects the low ethics of almost all US reactionaries.
From: United States
Of course the GWB regime is quilty of many crimes. However, the crimes committed by Bush et al pale in comparison to the crimes committed by Muslum fundamentalists such as Adam Gadahn. His ridiculous assertion that it is in America's interest to embrace the traditions of hatred preached by his masters would be great comedy if it wasn't so preserve. Gadahn's attempt to extrapolate the failures of the present administration into a blind hatred of the United States and everything American is the type of logic that results from the isolated group-think and half-baked mumbo-jumbo of his insane organization. His proposition that bombs are somehow the answer to age-old polemics would be absurd if it weren't so dangerous. Even more proposterous is "Azzam the American's" expectation that "(the American people) take the steps necessary to force the regime in Washington to free each and every one of them, wherever they are and whatever their supposed crime." Is this guy competing with Borat?
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
I would ask Who is comitting the "genocide" in Iraq? Certainly not the US Forces whose efforts are begining to show the results of stabilization and coperation between the Suni and Shi'a religeous factions which, at the behest of Al Queida, have heretofore kept the entire country in ethnic turmoil and pitted brother against brother! Your Al Queida masters are nothing but a bunch of murdering bas%$#ds who area intent on imposing their form of religious beliefs of Jihad upon a nation determined to rule themselves through the democratic process of "one man, one vote".
The very idea of this form of rule scares the living daylights out of Al Queida, Hamas, Hezbollah and the followers of their questionable philosophy.
Who, except a bunch of bullies, would condone thepublic beating of innocent women for some imagined infraction interpreted by an uneducated, simple minded cowardly individual given that right by an equally franchised religious fanatic?
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
These people have the right to believe as they wish,but not the right to physically impose their beliefs on others who may have an entirely different perspective of beliefs.
Would you deny those people that right? Or, like bin-Laden, intidate them with death threats and actuality of death simply because they don't believe as you do.
Bin-Laden has proven that he is only interested in self-agrandizement and in murdering innocents in order to gain his passage into "Paradise". God andAllah are one. We are all "People of the Book" and seek our individual passages to "Paradise/Heaven" in our own way. Only God/Allah can make that determination, not the Pope nor any Ayatollah has the power to do so.
The Crusades were fomented by a misguided series of Popes. Islam was expanded by equally misguided fanatics.
Your philosophy is founded in equally misguided misrepresentation of the desires of a majority of the world. It is a philosophy of hate for the opposition and nothing else.
Pity You!
Written by: Edward, 7 Jan 2008 6:47 PM
From: United States, Faux News: Unfair Imbalance
This guy is a lunatic and needs to go on psych meds!!!
Written by: Bonao, 7 Jan 2008 8:53 PM
From: United States
Gwb Is a good president he handle 9/11 better then any other president/politcian/goverment etc.. If they kill george Bush they going to send nukes, nuclear weapons and other stuff to al quade.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
Edward, do you mean me or Belial????
Texas Bill
Written by: Edward, 7 Jan 2008 9:44 PM
From: United States, Faux News: Unfair Imbalance
I mean that American Taliban. He needs psychiatrict help. LOL
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
If GWB were assassinated by Al Queida, Hamas, Hezbollah or the Taliban, the wrath that arose in the US would be an unstoppable force leading to a house to house search of theentire middle East until those responsible were captured, tried and executed.
That act would be the very thing that would weld the American people together and would be the equivilent of another Pearl Harbor and could very well become the catalyst of starting WWIII.
I don't think anyone wants something like that.
Edward, I don't think psychiatrict help would do any good with that Al Queida murderer since he wants only the opportunity to grandstand before the public. Like Belial, he wants the recognition,but won't do the physical actions necessary to carry out his agenda.
He's just another "wanna-be"
TB
Written by: Lautaro, 25 Jan 2008 6:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
The US Army may not be involved in Iraq's current crisis, but if there's something that you can't deny, misters Edward and TexasBill, is that corporative juggernauts like Halliburton and Exxon, mercenary groups like Blackwater and weapon dealers like Lockheed Martin and General Electric have profited from this war, and are still profiting greatly by it, with the so called reconstruction. The process of obtaining the reconstruction contracts and the corruption involved in them have nothing to envy the DR's cases of grado a grado. These groups are the ones that mister Belial calls by the name of "US imperialists", but the world at large (specially Latin America) prefers to name as the US "Military-Industrial complex". I don't know what you may think of these groups, but I seriously don't consider them to truly represent the core values of the USA and I'll not be surprised if they had their dirty hands in every little armed squabble ocurring on the Thirld World countries right now.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
Lautarao;
I cannot and will not deny that the "Big Money" companies have had a hand in perpetuating the corruption within Iraq. These are huge corporations which have vested interests all over the world and are embedded in the political arena up to their collective eyeballs. While i don't really think that they would purposefully pursue any prolongation of the bloodshed ( they're really not monsters, but are greedy) currently underway in Iraq, I do think they are making more money through the sale of their military products than they should. But that'swaht the free market allows. The US military Procurement system just needs some better negotiators on hand. Much of the problem stems from the "Cost plus 10%" prices originally awarded in an effort to rebuild the Irai infrastructure at the end of the initial hostilities.
Written by: Lautaro, 26 Jan 2008 10:58 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
Is there some kind of organization that could monitor the activities these corporations, mr. TB?
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
The real "core values" are reflected in thebillions of dollars annualy contributed to countries like Dafur, Kenya and others like them whose populations are being displaced and starved by their own people and leaders. The American people have always been, andwill always be, amoung the most benevolent of any other single country in theworld.
Just how many other countries answer the call for humanitarian aid when disaster strikes? Not many. The US sends their Military to other countries to provide medical care for isolasted communities, build hospitals, schools, roads, dams and other infrastructural amenities and gets blasted for doing so. Relief agencies, some working through the UN, send medical supplies, doctors, nurses, etc. to areas devistated by natural disasters andare seldom even acknowledged by the recipient governments who invariably take the credit for such services andhide the benefactors on the backpages of their reports.
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
Itis my opinion that the world will see a marked reduction of such aid in the future until such time as the USA finds it's way out of the economic conumdrum it is presently combating. That drawback from the world scene will continue until the USA rebuilds and regains it's own economic strength.
How many nations would now be wallowing in their economic quagmire had it not been for the largess of the USA? France, Germany, Italy, England, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Equador, Venezuela, Panama, numerous African nations, The phillipines, Japan andothers?
Literally Trillions of dollars have flowed into their coffers in the form of aid from the USA.
Are we, as a nation, to suffer the ignomy ofbeing chastised irreverently to the degree that we have been, past and present.
So, don't be surprised if the "bottomless pit" is suddenly withdrawn in preference to giving back to the US population what they should have been receiving all along.
TB
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The History of Religious Fanaticism is well recorded and should be studied by all thinking persons who seek peaceful co-existence for all mankind.
These people seek only to destroy civilizations and to impose their narrow and sick interpretaations on the whole of mankind.
They are all intent on controlling the world to their own benefit without regard to individual human rights and progress.
Stand up against them, for they are bullies and cowards and will retreat in the face of concentrated opposition to their efforts.
TB
Or perhaps, this guy only wants the publicity.
After all, US reactionaries insist that killing 1.2 million is not a bad thing to do. Indeed, some US reactionaries are disappointed in Bush because he hasn't killed 10 million Iraqis or, in other words, the the "surge" has gone far enough. They believe Bush should exploit the phony and US-manufactured "civil war" among Iraqis to a greater extent.
For details on the US-sponsored genocide, see:
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78
This guy dressed in holy rags ... who boldly tears up his passport ... probably hasn't hit anybody.
obviously, you blew it and now you blame everyone else for your falures to become a human being in your own right.
it is a pity that you haven't the courage to write for a local periodical in Houston. I attribute thatto your cowardice and reluctance to face the wrath of your fellow Texans who wouldn't put up with your hateful dialogue for even one minute.
You seem to forget, or shall I say, ignore, that it was the cowardly attack against 4000++ innocent souls that started the retribution cycle against Saddam Hussain, Osama bin-laden and theyr followers. it hasn't been American bullets that have killed the 1.2 million Iraquis, bu rather the bullets and bombs from the fanatical religious sects themselves wo have murdered those people.
Your commentary is mistaken and completely false, as are your other comments. Your reasoning is fallacious from any logical angle.
Your attempts to re-write history fall far short of proving any of your previous remarks and your most recent one is a shining example of a hate filled agenda.4
I challange you to publish some of your diatribes in the Houston Post or the Houston Chronicle and test the reception your commentaries receive.
Do you have guts enough to do that? I seriously doubt it, otherwise you wouldn't be seeking noteriety through publication in a foreign periodical.
Do you have the intellect and vocabulary to produce a readible dialogue in the written form of a book??
I seriously doubt it.
TB
I don't agree with everything GWB has done but clearly the threat is there and will always be there.
And the best defense is a good offense.
I don't agree with everything that my fellow Texas, GWB has done and said either and will be very glad when his tenure of office is completed. Perhaps then, we will begin to see some progress in our "AT HOME" conflicts which have their roots in the GWB Policies.
I just hope that the Independents have the numerical strength to combat both the Democratic AND the Republican rhetoric being spread at this time in our history.
Neither has produced a viable candidae to date an I don't think they have anyone currently in office that has the political will to turn the nation back into the one it was when I was growing up.
Somewhere along theline, the politicians have managed to sell out to their greed and avarice.
Where are the Statesmen who are dedicated to true democracy?
TB
000000
If is your apologies and indifference toward the 1.2 million Iraqis mass terminated by US imperialism, after March 2003, under the pretext of WMDs, 9/11, and the US-manufactured "civil war" that evidences a maglignant hate of the USA and all of humanity.
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78
Your hate is Nazi kind of hate.
The Houston Post hasn't existed for 20 years after the Chronicle ate the Post. The Chronicle has published numberous articles of mine. The reception was that US reactionaries resented what I said. US independents didn't care one way or another about what I wrote. And US liberals loved my ideas. It is pretty much the same reaction at Dominican Today.
00000
So, the best defense is genocide. The best defense is doing evil to those you falsely accuse of crimes like WMDs, 9/11, and phony "civil war." So, the best defense is to act on lies. This best defense reflects the low ethics of almost all US reactionaries.
The very idea of this form of rule scares the living daylights out of Al Queida, Hamas, Hezbollah and the followers of their questionable philosophy.
Who, except a bunch of bullies, would condone thepublic beating of innocent women for some imagined infraction interpreted by an uneducated, simple minded cowardly individual given that right by an equally franchised religious fanatic?
Would you deny those people that right? Or, like bin-Laden, intidate them with death threats and actuality of death simply because they don't believe as you do.
Bin-Laden has proven that he is only interested in self-agrandizement and in murdering innocents in order to gain his passage into "Paradise". God andAllah are one. We are all "People of the Book" and seek our individual passages to "Paradise/Heaven" in our own way. Only God/Allah can make that determination, not the Pope nor any Ayatollah has the power to do so.
The Crusades were fomented by a misguided series of Popes. Islam was expanded by equally misguided fanatics.
Your philosophy is founded in equally misguided misrepresentation of the desires of a majority of the world. It is a philosophy of hate for the opposition and nothing else.
Pity You!
Texas Bill
That act would be the very thing that would weld the American people together and would be the equivilent of another Pearl Harbor and could very well become the catalyst of starting WWIII.
I don't think anyone wants something like that.
Edward, I don't think psychiatrict help would do any good with that Al Queida murderer since he wants only the opportunity to grandstand before the public. Like Belial, he wants the recognition,but won't do the physical actions necessary to carry out his agenda.
He's just another "wanna-be"
TB
I cannot and will not deny that the "Big Money" companies have had a hand in perpetuating the corruption within Iraq. These are huge corporations which have vested interests all over the world and are embedded in the political arena up to their collective eyeballs. While i don't really think that they would purposefully pursue any prolongation of the bloodshed ( they're really not monsters, but are greedy) currently underway in Iraq, I do think they are making more money through the sale of their military products than they should. But that'swaht the free market allows. The US military Procurement system just needs some better negotiators on hand. Much of the problem stems from the "Cost plus 10%" prices originally awarded in an effort to rebuild the Irai infrastructure at the end of the initial hostilities.
Just how many other countries answer the call for humanitarian aid when disaster strikes? Not many. The US sends their Military to other countries to provide medical care for isolasted communities, build hospitals, schools, roads, dams and other infrastructural amenities and gets blasted for doing so. Relief agencies, some working through the UN, send medical supplies, doctors, nurses, etc. to areas devistated by natural disasters andare seldom even acknowledged by the recipient governments who invariably take the credit for such services andhide the benefactors on the backpages of their reports.
How many nations would now be wallowing in their economic quagmire had it not been for the largess of the USA? France, Germany, Italy, England, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Equador, Venezuela, Panama, numerous African nations, The phillipines, Japan andothers?
Literally Trillions of dollars have flowed into their coffers in the form of aid from the USA.
Are we, as a nation, to suffer the ignomy ofbeing chastised irreverently to the degree that we have been, past and present.
So, don't be surprised if the "bottomless pit" is suddenly withdrawn in preference to giving back to the US population what they should have been receiving all along.
TB