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Pakistani officials have contradicted each other on whether the suspect is Adam Gadahn, 31, who has appeared in videos threatening the West. Two intelligence officers and a senior government official identified the detained man Sunday as Gadahn. However, a different official Monday said the suspect was an American, but not Gadahn.
He might be this guy:
American and Pakistani officials said the man arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al-Adam, who was described as having been born in Pennsylvania
In any case they are pretty confident he’s an American because he’s overweight, is so certain about everything, doesn’t like soccer, keeps complaining about what’s available on cable, insists he’s just a re-enactor preparing for Comic-Con, and is inappropriately loud when demanding everybody speak English.
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Does he drive a cab and give advice for running the world tho?
They are absolutely certain he’s Number 3.
Attack America!!! That is where all the “terrorists” are from. Invade the bastards! Regime change! Where are those WMD?
Robert Fisk.
No Americans drive cabs.
The occupying country is also destroyed, becoming gradually more and more brutalized and degenerate. It happened to Russia. It happened to Israel. It’s happening to us.
Who the Hell’s a Moderate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbyKBevTjVY
When countries live by the gun they die by the gun. Once the MIC is in charge it is all killing all the time with a hefty profit for the gun makers.
It would take a strong administration to stop the MIC fanning the flames of violence and we are a long way from that here.
They’ll probably end up having Sacha Baron Cohen, or someone. And they’ll all be really embarrassed after keeping him in Gitmo for years just to discover that it’s all on film.
Edit: Another thought: Was he wearing a fur coat and pimp glasses?
Making it the perfect disguise!
Aha, how devilishly clever.
From The Meaning of Life:
One guy looks like Woody Allen in Bananas, the other looks like he should be mooning the Brits in a kilt next to Smell Gibson in Braveheart (just to his right). The beard thing works wonders.
I can’t make this stuff up.
Good morning, pups. It’s Monday, and that means The Pasty Little Putz and Prof. Krugman. Pope Putz I is dithering about something he’s calling “Mass-Market Eiphany.” He has a question: As the varieties of religious experience in America multiply, will true faith suffer? This is some weapons-grade bullshit. He moans over the dwindling of monasteries and the decline of contemplative orders. My suggestion? He should go and join the Trappist order and STFU. Prof. Krugman, in “An Irish Mirror,” says the financial crisis in Ireland offers clues about our own, and about how to prevent another one.
Here they are.
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I’m going to have to try to remember to take my shower AFTER reading the Putz, just in case my Hazmat suit has a small leak and some of that stoopid leaked in… Have a great day.
I guess the rental on the gorilla suit was too high.
Thanks, Marion, are the purple hearts for doing the Putz for us? I’m waiting for the tax exemptions for religious lobbyists to get squelched, meself.
No doubt he considers his Catholicism to be the “true religion”. Torture, pedophelia, bigotry, racism, greed, misogyny things that true believers relish in.
I guess if you can persuade enough people to believe in a fantasy land you can live tax free, not a bad gig.
Of course there is only One True Religion… (There’s nothing worse than a convert.) Of course, he’s a hypocrite in his religious life too, as he admits to eating meat during Lent. Putz he is, and putz he behaves. Or, to put it in terms he might understand, “by their fruits ye shall know them.”
That was a rule put in so the priests would get all the spring lambs.
they’re deep believers in fantasy taxes.
Chunky David Brooks missed his calling by going to Harvard instead of the seminary. If he played his cards right, he’d be in line for a bishopric by now.
i don’t know they are smiling, how “ugly” is that? breid………
The NY times sure butchered his Arabized name. Ādam Yaḥyā Ghadan Al-Amriki, or Abu Adam
Funny, they can tell he’s american by his fat ass, and maybe the whopper wrappings stuffed into his camel saddle pockets.
He was the video/technology person that did the Bin/Laden tapes.
Here he is eating Doritos, after he gets a buzz on the ganja or something.. do they still have afghani weed?
Here he is talking about his manhood.
Swim is up…
what’s above guy no.1′s head? And why doesn’t he move out of the way?
Heres an article about Adam Pearlman. Maybe he’s taking one for the tribe, doing his part to keep the terror card in play, or maybe not. Are Nacho’s kosher?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/american-al-qaeda-adam-gadahn-talks-about-jewish-southern-california-roots-in-new-video.html
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/01/22/070122fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=1
With a name “Mujahadeen al Amriki” its a wonder anyone at all could figure out that he was American “fighter”! Mullah Brother is still the best nom de guerre (right up there with General Father Dear).
How they usually get out of these muddles
Of course our intelligence folks have no idea who anyone is over there in the damn Mid-East, American-born or not. Dammit, that’s what we have security classification for, so the voters back home won’t have to worry their heads knowing that the intelligence folks don’t know anything. Now that someone’s screwed up, undoubtedly someone naive enough to imagine that the function of the intelligence services is to actually know stuff, and let the voters back home know about the confusion over this goddam Gadahn, there’s only one option open. Describe the guy as al Qaeda’s number three man, and have some Predator obliterate all the evidence to the contrary.
Indeed. And all the decisions to kill first and ask questions later are based on this non-intelligence (on so many levels). They aren’t going to learn anything till they can speak the language and they actually leave Langley to find out things on the ground. At least they’d finally realize the they are the total assholes in this gigantic flamingo-up Obama continues to perpetrate long after the Asshole in Chief has left.
Wow, you people really are out there aren’t you? You can sit here and post on a website about the fact that you know for sure there weren’t WMD’s in IRAQ, let me ask a question. Prior to the taking down of Saddam, where you actually on the ground in IRAQ? Were you actually part of Saddam’s Republican Guard? You sit here and talk about all the “Non-Intelligence” that you KNOW that the U.S. Government “didn’t” have, yet you were Not part of the U.S. Govt at the time in a position to have access to that kind of information and you were Not on the ground in IRAQ prior to the U.S. Invasion of IRQA. So that puts you down in my book as a arm chair quaterback. Don’t speak of what you don’t know about.
WTF is a “MIC”?
See Eisenhower, U.S. President – Farewell Address, 1961
Sounds American to me. Have you guys seen how the media tripped all over itself to get this story out, and then everybody played the “back-up” game? Check out this short news video, it uses sources from CNN, BBC and others:
http://bit.ly/d2jVGs