AP Calls Adam Gadahn an “Activist”
Charles Johnson
Sat Sep 2, 2006 at 3:21 pm PDT • Views: 343
Al Qaeda has released a new video featuring American terrorist Adam Gadahn, and the tone of this Associated Press release is nauseatingly sympathetic: Al-Qaida’s deputy issues new videotape.
CAIRO, Egypt - An American thought to be an al-Qaida activist appeared in a videotape with the terror group’s deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars.
Activist? The AP now refers to these people routinely as “activists?” What the hell is wrong with the media?
The 48-minute video, posted on an Islamic militant Web site, had footage of al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, and of Adam Yehiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old American who the FBI believes attended al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan and served as an al-Qaida translator.
It was the second time Gadahn appeared in the same video with al-Zawahri. In a July 7 video marking the one-year anniversary of the terror attack on London commuters, Gadahn appeared briefly, saying no Muslim should “shed tears” for Westerners killed by al-Qaida attacks.
But Saturday’s video — and the length of Gadahn’s speech — suggested al-Qaida has found in him someone who can directly address the American people in idiom they are familiar with.
Gadahn issued the call to Islam to the American people, a typical precursor to a mass murder attack:
“Instead of killing yourself for Bush … why not surrender to the truth (of Islam), escape from the unbelieving army and join the winning side. Time is running out so make the right choice before it’s too late,” he said.
For more about Adam Gadahn:
American Muslim: Taught by Siddiqi.
Media Ignore Siddiqi’s Radicalism.
Gadahn Connected to Islamic Society of Orange County.
‘A Terrorist in My House’.
Frank says: