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"al-Qaida's American Seeks Bush Attacks
Jan 6, 3:35 PM EST
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's American spokesman urged fighters to
meet President Bush with bombs when he visits the Middle East,
according to a new video posted on the Internet Sunday.
U.S.-born Adam Gadahn also tore up his American passport as part of a
symbolic protest in the nearly hour-long rhetoric-dominated tape - al-
Qaida's first message of the new year.
The release comes just three days before Bush is scheduled to arrive
in Israel for a weeklong trip that will also bring him to the West
Bank, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and
Egypt as part of his push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.
"Now we direct an urgent call to our militant brothers in Muslim
Palestine and the Arab peninsula ... to be ready to receive the
Crusader slayer Bush in his visit to Muslim Palestine and the Arab
peninsula in the beginning of January and to receive him not with
flowers or clapping but with bombs and booby-trapped vehicles,"
Gadahn, 29, said in Arabic.
"This just shows once again, al-Qaida offers nothing but violence and
death," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. "The
purpose of President Bush's trip is to meet with mainstream Arab
leaders and people to talk about a positive future for the region,
based on hope and opportunity."
During the rest of the 50-minute video, titled "An Invitation to
Reflection and Repentance," Gadahn, who was raised in California,
spoke mostly in English, appearing to specifically address the
American people. He said al-Qaida felt the need to release the
statement after Washington's "defeat" in Iraq and Afghanistan and
failed attempts by the Bush administration to bring peace to the
Middle East.
"We felt it necessary to address the American people and explain to
them some of the facts about these critical and fast-moving events,"
said Gadahn, who wore a white-and-red headscarf and sat behind a desk
with a laptop computer and coffee mug nearby.
"The first questions Americans might ask is has America really been
defeated? The answer is yes and on all fronts," he added.
The video could not immediately be independently verified, but it
appeared on a Web site often used by Islamic militants and carried the
logo of al-Qaida's media wing, al-Sahab. At the beginning of the
video, the date December 2007 was displayed. Gadahn also mentioned
Robert Hawkins, who killed eight people at a mall in Omaha, Neb. on
Dec. 5, suggesting the tape was made sometime after then.
Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, was charged with treason in the
U.S. in 2006 and has been wanted since 2004 by the FBI, which is
offering a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest or
conviction.
He has appeared in several al-Qaida videos including one in August
when he threatened new attacks on foreign embassies. In May, al-Qaida
released another video featuring Gadahn, who warned Bush to end U.S.
involvement in Muslim lands or face an attack worse than the Sept. 11,
2001, strikes.
In the video, Gadahn lashed out repeatedly at the United States for
its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and its close ties to Israel and the
leaders of some Muslim countries, including Egypt and Pakistan, which
he described as some of the "worst dictators and tyrants."
Gadahn also criticized Christianity, which he called "baseless and
doubt-filled," and urged Americans - including soldiers who fought in
Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - to convert to Islam.
"Listen to me, and listen to me carefully, before you lose your mind
to flashbacks, and drugs and drink-induced dementia and before your
demons drive you to self-destruction and suicide, in these verses (in
the Quran), God calls out to each and every one of you saying God
forgives all sins ... if you simply stop and repent," he said.
At one point in the video, Gadahn took out his U.S. passport, showed
it to the camera and tore it into several pieces.
"In symbolic rejection of the American citizenship that honorable and
decent and compassionate people are ashamed to carry, I will now
proceed to destroy my American passport," he said.
"But don't get too excited, I don't need it to travel anyway," he
added with a smile after tearing it apart."
"al-Qaida's American Seeks Bush Attacks
Jan 6, 3:35 PM EST
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's American spokesman urged fighters to
meet President Bush with bombs when he visits the Middle East,
according to a new video posted on the Internet Sunday.
U.S.-born Adam Gadahn also tore up his American passport as part of a
symbolic protest in the nearly hour-long rhetoric-dominated tape - al-
Qaida's first message of the new year.
The release comes just three days before Bush is scheduled to arrive
in Israel for a weeklong trip that will also bring him to the West
Bank, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and
Egypt as part of his push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.
"Now we direct an urgent call to our militant brothers in Muslim
Palestine and the Arab peninsula ... to be ready to receive the
Crusader slayer Bush in his visit to Muslim Palestine and the Arab
peninsula in the beginning of January and to receive him not with
flowers or clapping but with bombs and booby-trapped vehicles,"
Gadahn, 29, said in Arabic.
"This just shows once again, al-Qaida offers nothing but violence and
death," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. "The
purpose of President Bush's trip is to meet with mainstream Arab
leaders and people to talk about a positive future for the region,
based on hope and opportunity."
During the rest of the 50-minute video, titled "An Invitation to
Reflection and Repentance," Gadahn, who was raised in California,
spoke mostly in English, appearing to specifically address the
American people. He said al-Qaida felt the need to release the
statement after Washington's "defeat" in Iraq and Afghanistan and
failed attempts by the Bush administration to bring peace to the
Middle East.
"We felt it necessary to address the American people and explain to
them some of the facts about these critical and fast-moving events,"
said Gadahn, who wore a white-and-red headscarf and sat behind a desk
with a laptop computer and coffee mug nearby.
"The first questions Americans might ask is has America really been
defeated? The answer is yes and on all fronts," he added.
The video could not immediately be independently verified, but it
appeared on a Web site often used by Islamic militants and carried the
logo of al-Qaida's media wing, al-Sahab. At the beginning of the
video, the date December 2007 was displayed. Gadahn also mentioned
Robert Hawkins, who killed eight people at a mall in Omaha, Neb. on
Dec. 5, suggesting the tape was made sometime after then.
Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, was charged with treason in the
U.S. in 2006 and has been wanted since 2004 by the FBI, which is
offering a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest or
conviction.
He has appeared in several al-Qaida videos including one in August
when he threatened new attacks on foreign embassies. In May, al-Qaida
released another video featuring Gadahn, who warned Bush to end U.S.
involvement in Muslim lands or face an attack worse than the Sept. 11,
2001, strikes.
In the video, Gadahn lashed out repeatedly at the United States for
its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and its close ties to Israel and the
leaders of some Muslim countries, including Egypt and Pakistan, which
he described as some of the "worst dictators and tyrants."
Gadahn also criticized Christianity, which he called "baseless and
doubt-filled," and urged Americans - including soldiers who fought in
Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - to convert to Islam.
"Listen to me, and listen to me carefully, before you lose your mind
to flashbacks, and drugs and drink-induced dementia and before your
demons drive you to self-destruction and suicide, in these verses (in
the Quran), God calls out to each and every one of you saying God
forgives all sins ... if you simply stop and repent," he said.
At one point in the video, Gadahn took out his U.S. passport, showed
it to the camera and tore it into several pieces.
"In symbolic rejection of the American citizenship that honorable and
decent and compassionate people are ashamed to carry, I will now
proceed to destroy my American passport," he said.
"But don't get too excited, I don't need it to travel anyway," he
added with a smile after tearing it apart."
