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Qaeda Warns of Attacks ‘Worse than 9/11’ —

May 30th, 2007 - by admin

Breitbart.com & Adam Yehiye Gadahn – 2007-05-30 23:09:23

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1

Qaeda Warns of Attacks ‘Worse than 9/11’
Breitbart.com

(May 30, 2007) — An American member of Al-Qaeda warned in an Internet video that US President George W. Bush should withdraw all his troops from Muslim land or face attacks worse than September 11.

Adam Gadahn, a convert to Islam who has been indicted for treason by a US jury, issued a list of demands and warned they were not up for negotiation.

“Your failure to heed our demands means that you and your people… will experience things that will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Virginia Tech,” he said in the video posted on Tuesday.

“You’re losing on all fronts and losing big time,” said Gadahn, who is the English-language spokesman for Osama bin Laden’s terror network.

The tape entitled “Legitimate Demands” was produced by As-Sahab, a media outfit that specialises in Al-Qaeda online material.

Gadahn — sporting a headress, glasses and long beard — said Bush had “embroiled his nation in a series of unwinable and bloody conflicts in the Islamic world.”

He also called on the United States to cease support for the “bastard state of Israel” and the “56-plus apostate regimes of the Muslim world” and to free all Muslims from its prisons.

“We don’t negotiate with war criminals and baby killers like you. No, these are legitimate demands which must be met,” he said.

Born in 1978, Gadahn — also known Azzam al-Amriki and Azzam the American — is a native of southern California and has appeared in several videotapes for Al-Qaeda since 2004.

His conversion to Islam came after he began attending the Islamic Centre of Orange County in California, where he is believed to have come under the influence of two foreign-born Islamic radicals.

Gadahn’s reference to Virginia Tech was to the shooting of 32 people at the university by Korean-born gunman Cho Seung-hui who then turned the gun on himself.

• Also see: “Azzam the American” in the January 22, 2007 issue of The New Yorker.

Legitmate Demands
A Message from the Mujahid Brother Adam Yehiye Gadahn (Azzam) /
Courtesy of Free Republic

A complete transcript of the 7 minute, 57 second-long videotape.
• The video can be watched or downloaded here.

(May 29, 2007) — This is not a call for negotiations. We don’t negotiate with baby killers and war criminals like you. No, these are legitimate demands which must be met

All praise is due to Allah creator of the heavens and the earth and prayers and peace be upon the messenger of Allah, and his companions, family, and followers until the day of judgement.

Bush. You thought you would be remembered by history as the President who waged a series of successful Crusades against the Muslims. Instead, 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 sent the United States off on its death march towards breakdown and disintegration.

Oh, I’m sure there will be some partisans who believed your lies and some fanatics who shared your murderous Crusader ideology who will remember you fondly and mourn for you when this world is at long last rid of you, just as there were those who heaped praise on your fellow bloodthirsty nation destroying crusaders Milosovich and Yeltsin when they passed on to Allah’s anger but such minority sentiments can do nothing to cover up the ugliness of your crimes, the truth about your Empire of Evil, and the colossal failure of your Global Crusade.

You may or may not be aware of it but today, nearly four years after you hastily declared victory in Iraq, and more than five and a half years after you fell into the Afghanistan trap, things aren’t going too well for your Crusader Coalition. In fact, things are going really bad.

From Kanduz to Diyala, you and your mercenary hirelings and loyal but stupid allies are easy prey for our martyrdom-seekers. In East Africa, where many of the wars opening battles were fought years ago, the blood of your Ethiopian proxies is making the sand run red from Mogadishu to Ogadeen, and from the Levant, Egypt, and the Sudan to the Islamic Magrhib and Nigeria new fronts are being opened and old fronts are being reinvigorated and you and your are feeling the heat.

And, as confirmed by a new poll of Muslims in four major regional countries conducted by the Center for International Security Studies at the University of Maryland, Muslims continue to support and defend the goals, efforts, and sacrifices of their brothers and sisters, the Mujahideen and continue to demonstrate broad awareness of the evil nature of America and the threat posed by it.

This despite your worst efforts to distort out image in the eyes of Muslims and camoflauge your true intentions

In other words, you’re losing on all fronts and losing big time.

Bush, the die has been cast and the blood has been spilled and there is no way to undo what you have done.

There are, however, some steps you can take to curtail your losses and prevent the number of American casualties at home and abroad from rising even higher.

The Champions of Islam, defending their faith and brethren against your evil doing have repeatedly made clear these steps but because I know you live in a cocoon of your own making, and prefer to remain ignorant of what goes on in the world, I shall summarize them here. I strongly suggest you heed and implement them for your own good and the good of your people.

One, pull every last one of soldiers, spies, security advisors, trainers, attaches, and so on out of every Muslim land from Afghanistan to Zanzibar. Should so much as one single American 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.

Two, stop all support and aid – military, political, economic, or otherwise – to the fifty-six plus apostate regimes of the Muslim world and abandon them to their well-deserved fate at the hands of the soldiers of Islam. Should you fail to comply in full we will deem it sufficient justification to continue to fight and kill Americans.

Three, end all support, moral, military, economic, political, or otherwise to the bastard state of Israel and ban your citizens, Zionist Jews, Zionist Christians, and the rest from traveling to the occupied Palestine or settling there. Even one penny of aid will be considered sufficient justification to continue the fight .

Four, cease all interference in the religion, society, politics, and governments of the Muslim world and leave us alone to establish the Islamic Shura State which will unite the Muslims of earth in truth and justice. A single word of American protest shall be silenced by a thousand Islamic bombs.

Five, put an end to all forms of interference in the educational curricula and information media in the Islamic world and impose a blanket ban on all broadcasts to our region, especially those designed to alter or destroy the faith, minds, morals, and values of our people.

And six, free all Muslim captives from your prisons, detention facilities, and concentration camps regardless of whether they have been recipients of what you call a fair trial or not. Your refusal to release them will mean the continuation of our just struggle against your tyranny until the last kidnapped Muslim has been liberated.

This is not a call for negotiations. We don’t negotiate with baby killers and war criminals like you. No, these are legitimate demands which must be met. And your failure to heed our demands and the demands of reason means that you and your people will – Allah willing- experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Virginia Tech.

And let us be clear. A pull-out from Iraq alone in the absence of compliance with the remainder of our legitimate demands will get you nowhere and will not save you from our strikes.

SO stop wasting your time, and trying to save face with these futile, farsical maneuvers on Capitol Hill and start making some serious moves.

It’s your choice, Bush, cutting your losses and saving some face by getting out now with what you’ve still got, or continuing to coun t your dead and pursue a bloody fight to the very end. Your end, not ours.

By the grace of Allah, and with his help and power, we’ve struck back hard these past several years and with Allah’s permission we shall continue to strike back 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.

And our final prayer is that all Praise is due to Allah, who gives victory to the believers.

Some Comments Posted in Response
Two, stop all support and aid — military, political, economic, or otherwise — to the fifty-six plus apostate regimes of the Muslim world and abandon them to their well-deserved fate at the hands of the soldiers of Islam. Should you fail to comply in full we will deem it sufficient justification to continue to fight and kill Americans. Who are the 56+ “apostate regimes”? And maybe they should be nicer to us.

• So I’ll guess he’ll be voting democrat in ‘08?

• Read his six demands, made on behalf of Al-Qaeda. Do you still believe that anything America could do would stop terrorism except hunting and killing these lunatics?

• The 56+ apostate regimes are every single Muslim regime on the planet. None of them are legitimate in the eyes of true Islamists. Some of them considered the Taliban and the guys in Somalia okay, but that’s about it.

I liked the six demands. They will continue attacking us until each and every one is completely implemented. It does do a good job of pointing out what we would have to do to appease them.

Islamic soil is considered by Islamists to include any land that ever was Muslim. This would include the Balkans to Vienna, Ukraine, Russia, Spain, Sicily and parts of southern Italy and France. Not to mention all of India.

• (I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)

• Yes, it is. Frankly, just pointing out 9/11 would suffice, but tagging VT onto the list is quite odd.

• I keep 2 magnums in my desk. One’s a gun and I keep it loaded.Other’s a bottle and it keeps me loaded.

• Not only that, complying with this demand would mean that we sever all diplomatic ties with Muslim nations or nations located on what Al-Qaeda considers Muslim soil and that we ban all American citizens from traveling to Israel or any Muslim country. As you know, any American — no matter how removed from geopolitics — is considered a spy by Muslims.

• He’s the first American to be indicted for treason since 1952. Fred ThompsonZell Miller ’08 – Give the Dems and Terrorists Hell !!!!!!!!!!

• Islamic soil is considered by Islamists to include any land that ever was Muslim. This would include the Balkans to Vienna, Ukraine, Russia, Spain, Sicily and parts of southern Italy and France. Not to mention all of India.

• Hmmm… so I guess this is war then. Wish the “apostate regimes” would start taking care of themselves, but a fifteen-minute sense of history probably makes seeing the approaching danger a little difficult.
15 posted on 05/30/2007 7:22:39 AM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One’s a gun and I keep it loaded.Other’s a bottle and it keeps me loaded)

• Are his parents liberal? If so, they must be proud.

• Do you still believe that anything America could do would stop terrorism except hunting and killing these lunatics? It’s becoming abundantly clear that it’s a fight to the finish. (Our next generation will be reading the Spanish version of the Koran.)

• “experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Virginia Tech.”
Virginia Tech? Are they taking credit for that now.

* Anyone sensing a pattern? Little attacks that go under the radar while CAIR, the ACLU, and the left opposes any attempts to link these acts together. The Islamic websites call this the “infidel harvest”.

• Read carefully this rant can be condensed to a few words: We Muslims are dangerous and irrational. We’re no different than a coon with rabies. You must do whatever it takes kill us.

• I don’t want you to misunderstand…. I’m with you… these scum need to be exterminated as quickly as possible. But, we need to find some balance between destroying the scum while reducing the US presence in the middle east and avoiding killing civilians whose families might not otherwise have been sympathetic enough to become jihadists themselves…

AQ and their imitators have decentralized and, if US intelligence is to be believed, expanded. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was a collosal mistake…as Scheurer wrote, it validated everything OBL had been telling the Muslim world for 10 years. Lawrence Wright who won a Pulitizer for The Looming Tower (a great read on AQ if you’ve not read it), believes that OBL badly miscalculated on 9/11…and after the invasion of Afghanistan, the world had repudiated AQ and 80% of its leadership had been killed or captured…then the invasion of Iraq reignited a nearly dead AQ jihadist movement. Now Wright believes the US needs to stay in Iraq but he also believes that AQ is happy now whether the US stays or goes…there are no good options left

I understand that the invasion of Iraq is water under the bridge and there is no point in rehashing whether or not it was the right thing to do except that I see Ron Paul routinely slammed on here for a position that I think has been vindicated by the events of the last 4 years.

Background on the Gadahns
Posted on 05/30/2007 7:30:03 AM PDT by MediaMole
To: dragonblustar

WINCHESTER — It was 1988 and Michael Rowe had just moved to this dusty, one-stoplight town in rural Riverside County. Rowe bought a place southeast of here, so far out in the country that it’s reachable only by driving one-lane dirt roads.

While out walking his property one day, he met his neighbor, who lived about a mile away, and they shook hands across a barbed-wire fence.

The neighbor was tall and thin, with long hair and a beard. He said his name was Seth Gadahn and that he and his family raised goats. Rowe told Gadahn that he had moved here from Tustin because Orange County, with all its sprawling strip malls and furious freeways, was getting too crowded.

Gadahn said he, too, was originally from Orange County.

“He said, ‘I left Orange County so I wouldn’t have to deal with people, and you’re all moving out here now,’ ” Rowe recalled. “When I moved in, he thought he was being invaded.”

Sixteen years later, the fiercely private Gadahn faced an invasion of another kind. In May 2004, reporters and FBI agents found his Riverside County farm and peppered Gadahn, 57, with questions about his son, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, who they said was affiliated with al-Qaida.

Suddenly Seth Gadahn was pulled into a social spotlight he had run from 25 years before. Born Phil Pearlman, the son of a prominent Orange County doctor, Seth Gadahn turned his back on his father’s nice homes, middle-class lifestyle and traditional career.

Then, just as he had rebelled against his father, Seth Gadahn’s son rebelled against him. Adam Yahiye Gadahn became Azzam the American.

A product of the 1960s, Seth Gadahn was a peace-loving hippie who ultimately found Christianity. Completely counter to that, his son talks constantly of war and, in a Sept. 2 video, outlines the “errors” of Christianity and Judaism, the faiths of his father and grandfather.

Seth Gadahn shares many characteristics with his son – a love of obscure music, a name change to signify a fresh start, and disdain for conventional society.

But now, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the son of a man who believed in “live and let live,” rants of death and destruction to all those who don’t convert to the violent vision of Islam created by Osama bin Laden.

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