U.S.-Born Al Qaeda Spokesman Rips 'Serpentine' Obama, Warns Of New Deadly Attacks (VIDEO)

(AP) CAIRO — Al-Qaida's U.S.-born spokesman warned President Barack Obama Sunday that the militant group may launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones.

In a taunting, 24 minute message that dwelled on Obama's setbacks, including the loss of Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, Adam Gadahn set out al-Qaida's conditions for peace with the U.S., including cutting support for Israel and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

Gadahn said that if you compared the number of dead Muslims "with the relatively small number of Americans we have killed so far, it becomes crystal-clear that we haven't even begun to even the score," he said, dressed in a white robe and turban.

"That's why next time, we might not show the restraint and self-control we have shown up until now," he said. Even if al-Qaida was defeated, "hundreds of millions of Muslims" would still fight the U.S., he added.

Al-Qaida offered the same conditions for an end to hostilities to then President George W. Bush in 2007, including the release of all Muslim prisoners and cutting off aid to Middle East governments.

Gadahn's statement was notable for its mocking tone, in which he described Obama as "a devious, evasive and serpentine American president with a Muslim name," and seemed to delight in his setbacks.

"You're no longer the popular man you once were, a year ago or so," he crowed, ascribing his drop in popularity to the escalation of the U.S. wars abroad.

At the time of Obama's election, many analysts said al-Qaida was worried that his race and Muslim family connections would make him more appealing to Muslims and Arabs angry at Bush's foreign policy.

In its statements since his election, al-Qaida has taken pains to show the continuity between Obama's foreign policy and that of his predecessor.

Gadahn is wanted by the FBI since 2004 with a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction. He is also known as Azzam al-Amriki, Arabic for the American.

Comments

[jasev01]

01:48 PM on 06/22/2010

this guy is a clown bottom line

[supportamerica]

12:31 PM on 06/22/2010

to silversister, and embarrass his parents and family no less. Some times people do not think of what it will do to those who still live and work here. They are so wound up in themselves they can't see the forest for the trees. I hope people do not retaliate against his American family who may or may not agree with him and his opinions.

[DustinTime]

12:29 PM on 06/22/2010

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." -- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook

"Ana raicha Al Qaeda" is colloquial for "I'm going to the toilet". A very common and widespread use of the word "Al-Qaeda" in different Arab countries in the public language is for the toilet bowl. This name comes from the Arabic verb "Qa'ada" which mean "to sit", pertinently, on the "Toilet Bowl". In most Arabs homes there are two kinds of toilets: "Al-Qaeda" also called the "Hamam Franji" or foreign toilet, and "Hamam Arabi" or "Arab toilet" which is a hole in the ground. Lest we forget it, the potty used by small children is called "Ma Qa'adia" or "Little Qaeda".

[Oleg1]

12:46 PM on 06/22/2010

Here' what Brian Cook actually said:"
"Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies.

Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.
Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences,
it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way,
Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development

I agree with this statement. I might also add it never occurred to all others who supported Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan: Chinese,British, Saudis etc..

It also this never occurred to bourgeois liberla media in the West ( BBC especially) who preposterously portrayed these Islamo fundies as heroic defenders of Afghanistan women and children from grasping Soviet communists.

[DustinTime]

03:40 PM on 06/22/2010

No, it occurred to them. It was under their direction--that is, the direction of the "enterprise," the relatively small but dominant (neocon/Cheney) cell across those agencies and their private industry patrons.

Bin Laden, until he died, remained a CIA/ISI/Saudi/Mossad asset. They were getting him dialysis in an American hospital in Dubai right before 9/11. The Bin Laden family, to this day, is profoundly and profitably intertwined with American activities in the middle east, constructing bases and the like. This narrative of him going rogue is as empty a fiction as Adam the American Al-Qaida.

Without his participation to scare/motivate the uniformed citizenry, the agenda of invading Afghanistan, and Iraq, which was planned and authorized well before 9/11--as even mainstream publications have noted--would not have been politically possible to launch and sustain.

Look, you are, in many respects, well-informed and on the right track. That's true, about the database. The CIA cobbled those people together. The CIA branded them. Total reverse-engineered asset.

But when it comes to the full conclusion, perhaps bourgeois sensibilities filter your discernment from grasping the obvious..

And, hey, if that's the case, you are not alone.

[DustinTime]

12:22 PM on 06/22/2010

Cough, cough... Mossad... cough.

(Just look up who his grandfather is, folks.)

Don't fall for such hack showbiz. Make them at least find better writers for the fictions.

[Oleg1]

12:48 PM on 06/22/2010

What is this cough you're developing ( concern)?

Are you trying to cough up the a. n.a.l implant you received at Area 54l?

[DustinTime]

03:45 PM on 06/22/2010

Gee, I complain about weak, hack writing and you show up on cue, making Howie Mandel look like Mark Twain.

Priceless.

[Rand]

09:48 AM on 06/24/2010

Why would Mossad want to have as an agent an Oregon-born Christian?

He was a Christian, the son of a Christian mother and a Jewish-reared father who converted to Christianity before he was born

His ONLY connection to Judaism is ONE GRANDPARENT

While that standard HAS been used in the past (Look up "Nuremberg Race Laws"), are you certain that this is the direction in which you want to go?

[DustinTime]

02:16 PM on 06/24/2010

As if the Mossad only works with Jewish people. Hysterical. Please. Read some intelligence history and try to have at least some fact-based understanding of what you're spouting off about.

You're embarrassing yourself.

Meanwhile... as if this kid's fake, sheep-dipped bio is even worth debating on any level. Who cares what religion(s) he didn't/doesn't practice? He's a total fraud. It's a bad joke. And you want to equate identifying this laughably heavy-handed, hopelessly ridiculous, scripted psy-ops stooge with bigotry?

Yeah, as if Mossad and their cohorts represent some sacrosanct Judaic institution.

Please. That's not just clueless, that's offensive.

It's well-documented that this tool's grandfather is well-connected with hawkish Israeli factions; he was willingly recruited (and if it makes you feel better, corrupt factions within the CIA, ISI, British intelligence and plenty others--especially CIA--are in on it too) and the bible has zilch to do with it, pal.

And speaking of Nuremberg: this total fraud, this war-by-deception charade is intended, Goring/Goebbels-style, to keep the sheep afraid and in their pen. If you had any sense, you'd be disgusted.

And guess who, as if on cue from the Nazis, aggressively classifies Jews as a race? Right-wing zionists, who are writing, and passing, new "race" laws discriminating against non-Jewish citizens in Israel.

Face reality.

[damnedgentlemen]

10:56 AM on 06/22/2010

The Tea Party and Al Qaeda- United in Hatred of Freedom and Equality since January, 2009.
The only thing different is how they wear their bedlinens.

[Oleg1]

12:13 PM on 06/22/2010

Yet. That and 9/11, 7/7, Madrid train, Bali resort, two African embassies, USS Cole. and a few thousand other victims.

Otherwise they're the same.

[Freesia2]

10:52 AM on 06/22/2010

Al Qaeda saw you coming a mile away, "Iamamoron-iki."

You're their bread and butter. Lost little boys who need to feel important. They laugh at you I'm sure. You made it so easy.

[FerrellGummitt]

10:02 AM on 06/22/2010

But President Obama can either feel his pain or see some goodness within him, whereas all Tea Party are carrying torches and wearing White Bedsheets.

[Triple Bottomline]

09:56 AM on 06/22/2010

for the last ten years, can't help but notice these videos seem to get leaked every time Americans are questioning the US presence in the Middle East... odd

[KIVPossum]

10:51 AM on 06/22/2010

:) Wonder why?

[WryAwry]

09:51 AM on 06/22/2010

This is a sworn enemy of the United States and of all Americans.
Why hasn't he had one parked in the brainpan?

[GravitonX]

09:44 AM on 06/22/2010

I see a Predator drone in Gadahn's future.

Duck!

[KIVPossum]

10:51 AM on 06/22/2010

Drones are only for weddings and family gatherings.

[Oleg1]

12:11 PM on 06/22/2010

Yeah, we must do it the M-lim style -- do a Theo Van Gogh on him or there's always the Nick Berg option.

[DustinTime]

05:00 PM on 06/23/2010

Yes, KIV. Exactly.

[Billyguitar]

09:41 AM on 06/22/2010

He'll be singing a different tune when a predator drone shoots a missile up his wazoo!

[Hot Frank Dog]

09:21 AM on 06/22/2010

Can't wait to see this kid's head on a stick.

[Trueheart]

09:28 AM on 06/22/2010

Not sure that's a healthy response. In fact, you might be degrading yourself...but it's your choice to think like that, I guess.

[Rand]

09:14 AM on 06/22/2010

For all those who say that he's Jewish:

He was reared as a Christian. His father converted to Christianity before he was born. His mother is a Christian

He is not Jewish (Nor was he ever) by faith, by practice or by Jewish law

He IS, however, Jewish under the provisions of the Nuremberg Race Laws put forth by the Nazis

Is THIS the company you wish to keep?

BTW, over the years I've found out about a lot of "Jews" who didn't know they were Jewish at HP:

Red Skelton (Methodist)
Timothy Geithner (Episcopalian)
Paul Volcker (Lutheran)
Michael Richards (Catholic)
Rupert Murdoch (Anglican)
Charlie Chaplin (Anglican)
Ted Turner (Baptist)
Godfrey of Buillon (Catholic - The first ruler of the CHRISTIAN Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Crusades)
Oliver Stone (Reared Anglican, now a Buddhist)

I've also been told that I "converted" to Judaism. It must have been sometime between my birth and my Bris... At the ripe old age of EIGHT DAYS

[Kuuba]

09:33 AM on 06/22/2010

Interesting.

[Rand]

10:15 AM on 06/22/2010

Yeah.. Anytime someone isn't liked by an "anti-Zionist" (Because there's "no such thing as anti-Semitism") they suddenly become "Jewish" or even "secretly Jewish". If they happen to be Jews in actuality, they become "dual Israeli citizens"

[scarletxoxoxo]

09:48 AM on 06/22/2010

He looks jewish.

[Rand]

09:57 AM on 06/22/2010

Is your "shift" key malfunctioning?

What does "He looks Jewish" mean?

I AM Jewish: By faith, by practice and by Jewish law. I look Irish (Irish Jews look Irish, Italian Jews look Italian, etc.)

[Rand]

10:41 AM on 06/22/2010

If I've misinterpreted your comment, I sincerely apologize

But, between the lack of capitalization for "Jewish" (A common practice among those who hate Jews here at HP), the stereotype evoked by your comment and the nature of some of your "fans", I think you can understand my error

[Zanubiyah]

09:00 AM on 06/22/2010

OK, lets be rational here.

Knowing the 'skiddish' nature of terror groups, do you think that al Quid'a would let a man in thier organization whose parents were noted JEWISH activists who converted to Evangelical Christianity? Who again is the 'enemy' of al Quida? Christians? Jews? Americans?...this, according to the western media. Except the western media never seems to mention these things about the life of Mr. Gadahn (or Mr Pearlman)

Now, wouldnt that be equivilant of letting an ex police officer have a high office in a drug cartel?

Think logically...and ask yourself why cant they trace these videos back to thier sourse? Do they want to? Do they serve a political purpose to the west?

Sure they do.

However I wouldnt nominate this man for an Oscar. He sucks as a Muslim.

[Rand]

09:05 AM on 06/22/2010

ONE GRANDPARENT

I see you subscribe to the same definition of "Jew" as put forth in the Nazis' Nuremberg Race Laws

[Zanubiyah]

07:17 PM on 06/22/2010

Rand...

I didnt say he was Jewish did I. He is a nut for playing the role of an al Quid'a opreative. He is not Muslim.

He sucks as a Muslim.

[Hot Frank Dog]

09:25 AM on 06/22/2010

You're a freaking nut. You say that the west has no proof that this Gadahn guy is real, yet you fail to offer any proof to back your own assertions. No amount of propaganda will change the fact that America is tiring of pouring money into a region destined to destroy itself,

[FreedomOnionSoup]

10:00 AM on 06/22/2010

You can't offer proof if there is none.

Zan is yet another radical apologist who tries to pretend that all terrorism is a giant western conspiracy.

[Zanubiyah]

07:18 PM on 06/22/2010

Hot Frank Dog...

and your proof that I am not telling the truth is?

[KhandiBee]

08:58 AM on 06/22/2010

So What! Who Cares, Gosh, we give all this face time to these creeps ..