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US al Qaeda militant warns of worse attacks
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-05-30 09:13
DUBAI - The United States will face worse attacks than those on September
11, 2001 if it does not heed al Qaeda demands effectively allowing the
group control over Muslim countries, a US Islamist militant said on
Tuesday.
Adam Gadahn is seen in these undated pictures released by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. The United States will face worse attacks than
those on September 11, 2001 if it does not heed al Qaeda demands
effectively allowing the group control over Muslim countries, Gadahn said
on Tuesday. [Reuters]
Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam and the first American to
be charged with treason since the World War Two era, appeared in a video
posted on the Internet. Gadahn, wearing robes and a turban, is believed
to be in Pakistan.
"Your failure to meet our demands ... means that you and your people
will, Allah willing, experience things which will make you forget about
the horrors of September 11, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Virginia Tech,"
said the bearded Gadahn, addressing his comments to President George W.
Bush.
Gadahn was referring to the Virginia Tech campus shooting rampage last
month in which student gunman Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and himself.
"This is not a call for negotiations. We do not negotiate with baby
killers and war criminals like you," said Gadahn.
"You will go down in history not only as the president who embroiled his
nation in a series of unwinnable and bloody conflicts in the Islamic
world but as the president who set the United States up on its death
march."
Listing al Qaeda's demands, Gadahn said: "Pull every last one of your
soldiers... out of every Muslim land. If so much as one single US soldier
or spy remain on Islamic soil it shall be considered sufficient
justification for us to continue our defensive jihad against your nation
and people."
Gadahn demanded the United States end all support "moral, military,
economic or otherwise to the bastard state of Israel and ban your
citizens ... from traveling to occupied Palestine or settling there."
The demands also included releasing all Muslim prisoners and stopping
support to the "apostate" governments of Muslim states.
He said a US pullout from Iraq alone would not do.
"Things are not going too well for your crusader coalition," Gadahn said
of US-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We will continue to strike hard this year, next year, the year after
that and so on until the last crusader goes home, whether waving a white
flag or lying in a flag-covered casket."
Last year, an indictment delivered by a grand jury in a federal court in
California accused Gadahn of making a series of al Qaeda propaganda
videos. The treason charge against him carries a maximum punishment of
death.
The FBI has been seeking to question Gadahn since May 2004, and the US
government has offered up to $1 million in reward money for information
leading to his arrest.
Gadahn converted to Islam from a Jewish-Christian family when he was 17
and a few years later moved to Pakistan. He was previously known as Adam
Pearlman and grew up on a goat ranch outside Los Angeles.
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