Gadahn, the American al Qaeda, Charged

September 07, 2006 1:36 PM

Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan Report:

Adamgadhan4_nrABC News has confirmed that Adam Gadahn, the American who converted to Islam and joined al Qaeda, has been charged in a sealed indictment with providing material support to terrorism.

Gadahn recently appeared with al Qaeda's No. 2 in command Ayman Zawahiri exhorting Americans to convert to Islam. Gadahn, in addition to helping al Qaeda with propaganda and communications, is also suspected of helping al Qaeda with English translations and understanding U.S. culture and vulnerabilities. Charges may be announced in the next week. Officials have also considered charging Gadahn with treason.

Officials believe that Gadahn is now a top ranking member of al Qaeda and that he is in Pakistan.

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Oh, please! This fat loser is just hanging out with the only crowd that will have him. He is even too stupid to see that these al-Qaeda boneheads are simply interested in his U.S. passport and nothing else. As soon as they get what they want out of him, he'll be sent on some suicide mission that he will be ignorant enough to consider an honor. Good riddance, Moron!

P.S. Despite the fact that this guy is a native speaker, he apparently never took a speech or debate class. His arguments were absolutely terrible, when comprehendable.

Posted by: Ron | Sep 7, 2006 4:07:20 PM

Demented,delusional, self serving, pompous, just a few words that describe these people. They profess to be for a cause, but they are truely only for themselves and the glorification the attention brings them. I personally would not provide them with the attention; ignore them, publish a statement, but don't show their faces and don't feed their need to feel in power by attempting to incite more fear in us. Push them aside, they aren't worry of the attention. We are falling into their trap and abetting. Let's not allow it.

Posted by: Linda | Sep 7, 2006 4:26:01 PM

See......this is what happens when you are mean to the fat kids and nerds in high school.

Posted by: Ken | Sep 7, 2006 4:38:25 PM

One can find this type of person anywhere. A loser by nature, he is starved for attention and will do what it takes to get noticed. While some spend their lives doing good, people like this don't have the skills (social or other) to do much of anything good. They do what comes easy to them, and that is to go against the grain to be noticed. It would be sad if he wasn't being played so well by this group of madmen. I'm happy to hear he's to be charged with several serious federal crimes, but this may only serve to bolster his ego and give him some abstract credibility with the scum he's running with. I look forward to seeing his face when he's in US custody!

Posted by: Battleship | Sep 7, 2006 4:41:55 PM

Pease do not alter or cancel ''The path to 911''. We are very interested in watching it.
Thank You MLacy

Posted by: Margaret Lacy | Sep 7, 2006 4:43:42 PM

Past and future terrorists should be buried in a way to shame them eternally, like burying their ashes wrapped in pigskin. In fact, why not do that for the 9/11 terrorists? I know their bodies are a little "hard to find" especially at this late juncture, but just have someone *official* go to Ground Zero, pick up 19 handfuls of dirt, declare them to be the remains of the bombers, wrap them in pigskins, sealed permanently in clear hardened plastic, and thrown to the bottom of the ocean (no land burial, please). Document it all on a website. In fact, it amazes me why nobody *unofficial* has tried to do this yet. How about 911terroristburial.com? If I lived in New York myself, I'd do it. In fact, who cares if dirt is really from New York? Just fake it. Understand?!? In fact, just call the site terroristburials.com and open it to all terrorists. The site should also contain testimonials of the victims so that we (and the terrorists themselves) can learn something.

Posted by: DiP | Sep 7, 2006 4:47:50 PM

What a Jerk! This is what happens when you allow your kids to play video games all day, they create their own reality. I feel sorry for this guy's parents. Raising a loser, and then to have to watch him go to jail for being stupid. I'm sure his reality show will be out next year, called "al Qaeda's biggest Loser".

Posted by: Tom | Sep 7, 2006 4:59:54 PM

Waterboard him!

Posted by: defiant | Sep 7, 2006 5:04:51 PM

We can't win the war in Iraq 0r afghanistan so this administration re-focuses our attention of at least tries to by indicting this idiot.

Posted by: Doug | Sep 7, 2006 5:52:40 PM

I praise this man for is convictions! Let him lead !

Posted by: Alan Kaida | Sep 7, 2006 6:46:18 PM

That charge had better be Treason.

Posted by: Patrick | Sep 7, 2006 6:56:39 PM

There's no doubt he has become big in al-Qaeda because of his American roots. Let him rot in a prison cell for life, death is too good for this guy. In fact, he probably wants it if he gets captured.

Posted by: ATTW | Sep 7, 2006 7:15:34 PM

Just another attempt of the Busheviks to install their customary "fear" program into the American psyche before the mid-term elections. This time around though they are going to learn that they've played that tune too many times. They'll realize it and "you can bet your bottom dollar" that they'll stage another terrorist attack between now and November. Only problem is that Democrat or Republican, they are just two sides of the same coin. You want change? Change from the fear tactics, the erosion of civil liberties in the name of security? Vote for anyone but the Democrats or the Republicans because they're both being paid off by lobbyists who, trust me, don't represent your interests. Now, let's see, which side will attack me first?

Posted by: Kenny | Sep 7, 2006 7:15:56 PM

He's still in the I-hate-my-father, listen to heavy metal way too loud phase. He's a runaway, it's just that he ran too far. Kind of ironic that his name, Adam, is a name held sacred in the Christain religon...

Posted by: John | Sep 7, 2006 7:36:42 PM

I don't know of anything that is more despicable than a traitor. He obviously had to go to the land of morons to get accepted. It should be easy to catch him because you can tell he is as dumb as a stump. He likely feels good with all that cloth wrapped around his body and head because it makes him think he does not have to bath. Finding him should be easy as all you will have to do is take a deep breath and you will be able to smell the slime ball.

A Canadian supporter of the U.S. here.

Posted by: Wlderness Will | Sep 7, 2006 7:38:56 PM

This IS the Enemy.

Gadahn is one of hundreds of thousands of "demented, delusional, self serving, pompus" religious lunatics that have the means and the will to maim and murder anyone they feel like, anywhere, anytime.

And they must all be killed or captured.

Posted by: 411 | Sep 7, 2006 8:05:32 PM

We need to look at ourselves before we judge others. Many of us in this country have these extremist views.

Posted by: Jack | Sep 7, 2006 9:39:40 PM

Until the United States starts playing the game the same way the terrorist do they cannot win. We need to catch them and shoot them instead of treating them like civilized beings. Play the game the way they do. No conscience. The United States is filled with do-gooders and they can't win this way. The terrorist do not need to be tried. They are guilty by their own actions.

Posted by: Thurston Hill | Sep 7, 2006 9:51:40 PM

I swear this is the guy I roomed(shared a house) with about 15 yrs ago when I lived in Hawaii. If it is, and I am almost positive it is, I am not surprised. He was an idiot, and errogant. About what I don't know. He use to claim he was part of the Rainbow Family. So it would only figure. The older he got the more of an idiot he became. But you still have to go back to the upbringing. Do you know where your kids are? I do.

Posted by: Vinnie | Sep 7, 2006 9:56:53 PM

Glorification through the media is the desire of all serial killers and mass murderers. No religion, I can think of, condones murder, beheading, torture, and etc. God himself could not have done a better job, had he taken the time, to put together a committee to search the earth and bring before us, in the news, the biggest assortment of looney tunes, nuts and downright ugly murdering serial killing idiots I've ever laid eyes on. Don't watch the news, watch looney tunes!

Posted by: Mike | Sep 7, 2006 10:00:17 PM

IT SUCKS, TO THINK THE VERY COUNTRY YOU'VE SERVED FOR, AND THOSE STIL ACTIVE TODAY, ARE IN WITH A COUNTRY TURNING JUST AS COMMUNIST, AS THOSE WE TURNED AGAINST JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. YOU SHOULD HAVE NO RIGHT TAPPIN MY PERSONAL CALLS, UNLESS YOU HAVE GOOD EVIDENCE IM WITH THE OTHER SIDE.
BUT WHO IS THAT THESE DAYS, IT SEEMS IT'S OUR ON GOV'T.
THE TRUTH, YOU GUYS IN SUITS ARE TOO BUSY KISSIN UP TO KNOW WHAT THE TRUTH IS!
WE, THE EVERY DAY POOR, NON INSURED, HARD WORKIN, BACK BONE OF THIS COUNTRY, THE ONES WHO PAY YOUR BILLS, ARE WHO LOSSES IN THE END! BUT, ONE LAST WORD, GOD KNOWS YOUR HEART AND INTENTIONS,
YOU'LL BE BROUGHT TO A REAL JUSTICE! HIDE AND WATCH!!!!!!!!

Posted by: our homeland | Sep 7, 2006 10:04:35 PM

This guy gives me the creeps. He is everything said prviously on this thread, but he is also the epitomy of evil. God rot his soul.

Posted by: Cornelia | Sep 7, 2006 11:28:29 PM

People like this that have turned against they're country and betrayed it to religious extremists on a power trip should be publicly tried and executed as an example to those who would take his place. The persons he was loyal to would do no less. Let them be made into examples of intolerance so that those who have twisted Islam into a means of war will know what awaits them if they are caught in or by the US. If they choose to disregard tolerance, they don't deserve any.

Posted by: Matt | Sep 7, 2006 11:41:08 PM

Please run your 9/11 documentary as intended. Politics seems to permiate so much of journalism, please show some integrity and just tell the truth. We all know that Clinton's shenanigans distracted he and others from the business of the country. If you bow to the pressure, they will never stop, and you will look like pawns.

Posted by: TxMom | Sep 7, 2006 11:41:25 PM

People like this that have turned against they're country and betrayed it to religious extremists on a power trip should be publicly tried and executed as an example to those who would take his place. The persons he was loyal to would do no less. Let them be made into examples of intolerance so that those who have twisted Islam into a means of war will know what awaits them if they are caught in or by the US. If they choose to disregard tolerance, they don't deserve any.

Posted by: Matt | Sep 7, 2006 11:43:21 PM

Long live freedom of speech. Who cares what he believes or says? Accept or reject it, as you will. But opposing his right to speak and turning the USA into a police state is more destructive to our nation than anything this nut might say or think.

Posted by: Jim | Sep 7, 2006 11:47:48 PM

They should arrest his family as co-conspirators and execute them as well.

Posted by: reality | Sep 8, 2006 3:35:10 AM

GOD IS BEHIND MR BUSH AND HE WILL SEE ALL CHRISTIANS THREW TO WHEN HIS SON COMES BACK TO TAKE US TO BE WITH HIMSELF. BELEAVE!!! THE TIME IS NEAR!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: RJ | Sep 8, 2006 3:37:32 AM

This guy should be hung by his dirty beard. They should give him a bath before putting him on camera! He should join Jenny Craig not Al Qaeda!

Posted by: GADAN | Sep 8, 2006 3:54:24 AM

What a useful idiot. And isn't it amazing how this Islamofascist tool spews the same anti-Christian vitriol that many liberal atheists do in America?

Since 9/11 I've been fascinated with how the rhetoric of the radical left and that of radical Muslim fundamentalism are virtually indistinguishable when it comes to bashing Bush, hating America and trying to undermine western civilization.

Posted by: Hankmeister | Sep 8, 2006 4:07:10 AM

This is a good start - we need charges filed against 10,000+ more similar people, namely those living in Dearborn, MI who pledge allegiance to Hezbollah, a known terrorist organization. People like Gadahn don't need to live freely in the US, it's unacceptable.

Posted by: Adam | Sep 8, 2006 9:32:00 AM

Man... let him loose here in fannin county georiga and we'll have ourselves a warm up hunt for deer season.

Posted by: John in Georgia | Sep 10, 2006 5:10:55 PM

If he is found guilty of treason, and is eligible to die for it, then, since death is a welcome thing to him, maybe his execution, if done at all, should be done silently with no witnesses. That way nobody will know if he is dead or living in Guantanamo Bay. He can never be a martyr if nobody knows you're dead. Of course, a silent execution will be opposed by all liberals and the ACLU.

Posted by: DiP | Sep 10, 2006 10:45:41 PM

"Gadahn" looks and sounds like yet another US government "Al Qaeda" poseur straight from the CIA's own "Al Qaeda" Studios. The US government did the 9/11 attacks to create an excuse to invade the oil-rich Middle East.

Posted by: Gregory F. Fegel | Sep 11, 2006 2:07:43 AM

I personally believe that freaks like this one are only glorified by the media. This devil incarnate IS NOT AN AMERICAN.....he is a nobody....a nothing.....and CERTAINLY DOES NOT DESERVE THE RIGHT OR THE PRIVELEGE TO BE CALLED AN AMERICAN.....
TERRIE GREMILLION

Posted by: Terrie Gremillion | Sep 12, 2006 4:30:13 PM

We all know guys like this, he was probably a nazi in the 9th grade, a goth in the 11th grade, a punk in college, and now a terrorist.

Posted by: Bucky | Oct 11, 2006 6:13:33 PM

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