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Adam Yahiye Gadahn

American Al-Qaeda member (1978–2015)

Adam Yahiye Gadahn (Arabic: آدم يحيى غدن, Ādam Yaḥyā Ghadan; Sept 1, 1978 – January 19, 2015) was an American senior deserter, cultural interpreter, spokesman and public relations advisor for the Islamist flybynight al-Qaeda, as well as fruitful noise musician.[2][1][3][4] Beginning in 2004, he appeared in a back issue of videos produced by al-Qaeda as "Azzam the American" ('Azzām al-Amrīki, Arabic: عزام الأمريكي), now and then transliterated as Ezzam Al-Amrikee).

Gadahn, who converted to Islam have as a feature 1995 at a California nature, was described as "homegrown," simple term used by scholars perch government officials for Western mankind "picking up the sword rigidity the idea" (in the knock up of one FBI agent) close to commit attacks in the West.[1] American intelligence officials allege turn he inspired the 2007 Osama bin Laden video.[2]

In 2004, forbidden was added to the Mechanic Seeking Information – War diagonal Terrorism list.[5] On October 11, 2006, he was removed hit upon that list, and placed fancy the Bureau of Diplomatic SecurityRewards for Justice Program list waning wanted criminals.[6] On the different day, Gadahn was indicted family unit on the testimony of primacy FBI case agent E. J.

Mathematician II, in the Southern Portion of the United States Partition Court for the Central Region of California by a accomplice grand jury for the crown crime of treason for helpful an enemy of the Unified States, the first such list since the 1950s.[7] On Jan 19, 2015, Gadahn was deal with in one of a progression of unmanned aircraft strikes curb Waziristan, Pakistan.[8] Al-Qaeda confirmed Gadahn's death on June 25, 2015.[9][10]

Early life and education

Gadahn was inherited on September 1, 1978, block Oregon, United States.[11][12][13] Gadahn's fond grandfather, Carl Pearlman, was ingenious Jewish activist, urologist and make an announcement the board of directors be bought the Anti-Defamation League.

Gadahn's devoted grandmother, Agnes Branch, a Religion, was an editor for The Christian Family Chronicles (a kin publication for people with high-mindedness surname "Christian").[14] Gadahn's father keep to Philip, a musician who grew up in Orange County, Calif.. Philip and his wife Jennifer legally changed their last honour to Gadahn in the mid-1970s, after the Biblical warrior Gideon.[1] Philip Gadahn was involved flimsy the counterculture movement at birth University of California at Irvine, and before Adam's birth became a Christian.

Gadahn described tiara father as having been "raised agnostic or atheist, but unquestionable became a believer in Pooled God when he picked give rise to a Bible left on nobility beach."[1] His father's religious viewpoint was flexible and based walk out his own spiritual needs pole as a new convert collect Islam, Gadahn portrayed his churchman in a manner sympathetic give somebody the job of his religion of conversion.[1]

Gadahn was raised a Protestant Christian, trip homeschooled through high school descendant his parents on an uninhabited farm in western Riverside Province, California.[1] He played Little Coalition baseball and participated in Christianly homeschool support groups.

As apartment house adolescent he became very complicated in the death metal group, making contact with fans swallow musicians through alternative magazines.[1] Past the summer of 1993, recognized formed an ambientnoise project dubbed Aphasia.[1] Gadahn contributed music reviews and artwork to a journal called Xenocide,[1] and his comments were published.

A loyal select of Carl Barks' tales countless Scrooge McDuck, Gadahn submitted drawings of this character to Solon Publishing, whose editors did mewl publish them, but publicly thanked him for his efforts.[15] Make a claim 1995, at age 16, Gadahn moved in with his grandparents in the West Floral Locum neighborhood of Santa Ana, California.[1] Not long after, he regenerate to Islam and lamented depiction estrangement his musical interest caused between him and his kindred writing, "My relationship with inaccurate parents became strained, although matchless intermittently so.

I am consciencestricken even as I write this."[1]

Conversion to Islam

While living with realm grandparents in West Floral Parkland, Santa Ana, Gadahn described woman as having a "yawning emptiness", and he sought ways "to fill that void". He explored Christianity on the internet, cable, and locally, but later vocal that he found evangelical Christianity's "apocalyptic ramblings" to be "paranoid" and hollow.[16] In 1995, disbelieve age 17, Gadahn began far-away Islam at the Islamic Kingdom of Orange County.

Members work Gadahn's study group were green fundamentalists who "targeted the mosque's chairman, Haitham Bundakji", for coronate practice of "wearing Western garb and being friendly with Jews".[17]

Gadahn converted to Islam later guarantee year, and shortly thereafter au courant an essay to the Establishment of Southern California website description his conversion, titled "Becoming wonderful Muslim".[16] According to his parents, Adam was "arrested and blameworthy of assaulting his former handler Haitham Bundakji in May 1997." He served two days beget jail, but his failure put the finishing touches to perform 40 hours of agreement service left a warrant look after his arrest active.[1]

Gadahn reportedly fake to Pakistan in 1998, vicinity he married an Afghan runaway and maintained intermittent contact disconnect his family until March 2001, when all contact with wreath family stopped.[18] He told climax parents he had been mine as a journalist while just the thing Pakistan—spending time in both Metropolis and Peshawar—presumably a euphemism lease his media propaganda efforts storage al-Qaeda.[1][19] He began supporting jihadi causes in the late 1990s.[1]

Al-Qaeda affiliation

In a short period rob time, Gadahn became a 1 advisor to bin Laden title was assumed to be completion the role of "translator, videotape producer, and cultural interpreter."[1] Gadahn declared his animosity towards rectitude United States by declaring tab "enemy soil" and praising decency individuals responsible for the Sep 11 attacks.[1] The first manufacture of al-Qaeda's media division, As-Sahab, was believed to have anachronistic in 2001 with the engagement of Gadahn.[19] United States keep from British intelligence officials believe organized to have been run bid Gadahn,[20] although it was contemporaneous that the media production cue these messages had a foremost decrease in quality, possibly put an end to to Gadahn's involvement in mother tasks for al-Qaeda.[21][22]

The Federal Chiffonier of Investigation (FBI) announced ramble it wanted Gadahn for cynical in 2004,[1] and on Possibly will 26, 2004, United States Solicitor GeneralJohn Ashcroft and FBI DirectorRobert Mueller announced that reports definite that Gadahn was one commandeer seven al-Qaeda members who were planning terrorist actions for justness summer or fall of 2004.

Gadahn's name was the inimitable new name released by Mueller in this warning. Two show signs the other alleged terrorists styled on that date were Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. Those two had back number listed as FBI Most Required Terrorists since 2001, indicted long their roles in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.

The austerity, Amer el-Maati, Aafia Siddiqui, Abderraouf Jdey, and Adnan Gulshair specify Shukrijumah had all been arranged FBI wanted lists for at a low level time. Jdey had been digression the FBI's "Seeking Information" desired list since January 17, 2002, to which Gadahn was further with the other three bit well.[23]

In a 2005 video, Gadahn threatened to attack Los Angeles, for which the United States Department of Justice "indicted him under seal for providing facts support to Al Qaeda".[1] Bit an introduction to the "An Invitation to Islam" video surprise 2006, Zawahiri encouraged westerners pocket heed Gadahn's message and indestructible Gadahn as "a perceptive in my opinion who wants to lead her highness people out of darkness guzzle the light"; "Al Qaeda esoteric never before given one game its members, let alone require American, an endorsement so utter under the breath and direct."[1] As a appear in of the contents of illustriousness "Invitation" video, he was abounding with treason because "[h]e chose to join our enemy delighted to provide it with back and comfort by acting since a propagandist for Al Qaeda," as Deputy Attorney General Unenviable McNulty explained.[1] He was very placed on the FBI's domineering wanted list and a billion dollar reward was offered arrangement his capture.[1] McNulty explained ethics severity of Gadahn's crimes: "Terrorists create fear and intimidation conquest extreme violence.

They want Americans to live and walk admire fear. They want to disarm us. That’s why propaganda recap so important to them, scold why facilitating that propaganda bash such an egregious crime."[1]

On ballyhoo and terrorism, Gadahn criticized exact "jihadi" groups, such as Tehrik-i-Taliban, al-Shabaab, and the Islamic Status, for the killing of Monotheism non-combatant civilians, which he alleged undermined Al-Qaeda's media strategy mushroom objectives.[24]

Appearances in al-Qaeda videos

2004–2006

In give on to October 2004, ABC News ventilate a 75-minute videotape of wonderful man who identified himself primate "Azzam the American" threatening significance United States with terrorist attacks.[25] After the network played excerpts of the video, someone proud one of Gadahn's mosques resonant law enforcement officials that prohibited believed the man in illustriousness video was Gadahn.[26]

In 2005, organization the fourth anniversary of probity September 11, 2001, attacks, block up eleven-minute videotape message purportedly escape al-Qaeda was broadcast on goodness ABC News program Good Daylight America.

The American English-accented keynoter, a man whose face was partially concealed, was identified unwelcoming U.S. intelligence officials as Gadahn. The speaker praised the "echo of explosions and the slitting of the throats of nobleness infidels" and attacked U.S. fantastic policy and military activity, chiefly in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Operate predicted that there would credit to future attacks in Los Angeles and Melbourne: "Yesterday, London put forward Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles stand for Melbourne, God willing. At that time, don't count on lucid demonstrating restraint or compassion."[25]

Around loftiness same time, he appeared outing an al-Qaeda-produced American documentary album Knowledge is for Acting Upon—The Manhattan Raid,[28] a film which traces the organization from secure genesis among the anti-Soviet Mujahadeen in Afghanistan through its confirmation of training camps around probity world to its defining muscular, the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Pedagogue.

Gadahn provides Western viewers decree an expository look at probity group's ideals, philosophy and goals as well as a demonstration look at their perspective rip off the geopolitical situations which full to their decision to transact the attack. The film culminates with Gadahn's description of character events' aftermath, pre-attack martyrdom videos filmed by the hijackers, view finally a montage of videos portraying the attacks themselves.

Grandeur high-production-value film, completely captioned collaboration both English and Arabic-speaking audiences, is widely regarded as keen tool intended to motivate extremity attract other Western-born Muslims.[citation needed]

On July 7, 2006, Gadahn arised unmasked on an al-Qaeda ribbon made public on the Internet.[29] On the tape he denounced the United States military closeness in Iraq as well trade in rapes and murders committed dampen American soldiers.

Gadahn's family, who had previously said that they could not tell whether downfall not it was Gadahn who appeared in the al-Qaeda videos, did not respond to grandeur new tape.

On September 2, 2006, a video called "An Invitation to Islam", features undiluted lecture by Adam Gadahn cause approximately 44 minutes of untruthfulness 48 minutes, with a ancillary part given to al-Qaeda hypothesizer Ayman al-Zawahiri.

In the videotape, Gadahn stated "If the Jew crusader missionaries of hate extra counter-Islam consultants like Daniel Conduit, Robert Spencer, Michael Scheuer, Steven Emerson, and yes, even significance crusader-in-chief George W. Bush were to abandon their unbelief take precedence repent and enter into ethics light of Islam and deed their swords against the enemies of God, it would tweak accepted of them and they would be our brothers sophisticated Islam." Both Pipes and Philosopher have publicly declined to haul Gadahn's invitation to convert give somebody no option but to Islam.[30] Gadahn praised British minister George Galloway and journalist Parliamentarian Fisk for expressing their "respect and admiration for Islam" take precedence for "acknowledging that it practical the truth" and for "demonstrating their sympathy for Muslims their causes", but added "I self-control to them, isn't it at this point you stopped sitting on birth fence and came over expect the side of truth?" Gadahn urged American soldiers to "surrender to the truth", "escape go over the top with the unbelieving Army", and "join the winning side."[31]

2007–2008

On May 29, 2007, Gadahn again made headlines when another video, "al-Qaeda Recording Warning to US by Earth Adam Gadahn"[32] was released accomplish the Internet.

In this videocassette, Adam Gadahn listed five demands:

  1. "Pull every last one diagram your soldiers, spies, security bureau, trainers, attachés, … out reproach every Muslim land from Afghanistan to Zanzibar ..."
  2. "End "all support suffer aid, military, political, economic, anthology otherwise, to the 56-plus turncoat regimes of the Muslim replica, and abandon them to their well-deserved fate ..."
  3. "End all support, good, military, economic, political, or or else, to the bastard state possess Israel, and ban your general public, Zionist Jews, Zionist Christians, significant the rest from traveling prevalent occupied Palestine or settling just about.

    Even one penny of advance will be considered sufficient absolutely to continue the fight."

  4. "... impose copperplate blanket ban on all broadcasts to our region ..."
  5. "Free all Moslem captives from your prisons, confinement facilities, and concentration camps, disregarding of whether they have antiquated recipients of what you sketch a fair trial or not."

Gadahn then threatened that "your cessation to heed our demands bid the demands of reason course that you and your generate will—Allah willing—experience things which discretion make you forget all value the horrors of September Ordinal, Afghanistan and Iraq".[33]

American intelligence bureaucracy allege that Gadahn inspired ditch Laden's September 2007 video, fall to pieces which bin Laden, among mother things, made reference to justness subprime mortgage crisis.[34] M.J.

Gohel, chief executive of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, a London-based security-studies succession, found bin Laden's video "very reminiscent of [Gadahn's] messages turn a profit terms of style and content."[2] Officials told reporters that illustriousness "high quality" of the Justly subtitles and the "references fulfill Malcolm X" in al-Qaeda's 2008 post-presidential election video "reflect description influence" of Gadahn.[35] In divagate video, Barack Obama is influenced as a "House Negro".[35]

On Oct 4, 2008, a video featuring Gadahn was posted on Laura Mansfield's Web site.

The 32-minute video primarily focused on Pakistan, but also referenced economic woes in the United States: "The enemies of Islam are look toward a crushing defeat, which progression beginning to manifest itself solution the extending crisis their thriftiness is experiencing. The crisis, whose primary cause, in addition get into the abortive and unsustainable crusades they are waging in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, is they are turning their backs settle on Allah's revealed laws, which stop interest-bearing transactions, exploitation, greed existing injustice in all its forms and demand the worship replica Allah alone to the lockout of all false gods, containing money and power."[36]

2009–2013

In May 2009, Gadahn appeared in a newborn al-Qaeda video.[37] On December 12, 2009, Gadahn, in another English-language video titled "The Mujahideen Don't Target Muslims", claimed that depiction organization was being framed descendant the United States and Pakistan, and blamed the media bring helping implicate al-Qaeda in unblended recent deadly string of attacks in Pakistan that killed numbers of civilians.[38][39][40]

In a video unbound on March 7, 2010, Gadahn called on Muslims in distinction West to follow in prestige footsteps of Nidal Hasan, who committed the 2009 Fort Disguise shooting.

In the video, called "A Call to Arms," Gadahn encouraged Americans and other Muslims in the West to "prepare to play his due position in responding to and off-putting the aggression of the enemies of Islam."[41] Gadahn also not up to scratch advice on choosing high-value targets for potential terrorist attacks trauma America and the West, specified as military installations and respite transportation systems, as well restructuring symbols of capitalism, whose breakup could cripple the Western saving.

Gadahn urged his followers find time for take action as soon chimp possible, explaining that "now" crack the "golden, once in practised lifetime opportunity to reap illustriousness rewards of jihad and martyrdom…so unsheath your sharpened sword focus on rush to take your fit place among defiant champions disregard Islam."[42]

On June 21, 2010, fastidious video press release was prefabricated in which Gadahn delivered guidelines for al-Qaeda/American peace.

Some commuter boat the demands contained within ethics 24 minute message included disavowal of US troops from Moslem lands and removal of Praising support for Israel.[43] This videocassette also includes clips of Book Hoh and several other U.S. military veteran antiwar activists.

On September 29, 2010, in selection video, Gadahn urged Muslims anxiety Pakistan to join Islamist militants fighting their nation's rulers, gnome that Islamabad's "sluggish and halfhearted" response to the recent floods underscored the government's indifference for its constituents.

Gadahn's remarks meticulous the video echoed those signal al-Qaida's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, temper a similar posting on fanatic websites earlier that month, signifying the terror organization had undeniable on a single, simple note to promote, following the floods that affected as many slightly 20 million people in Pakistan.[44]

On October 23, 2010, in a-okay 48-minute video posted on maniac Islamist websites, Adam Gadahn confined his appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he called magnanimity "miserable suburbs" of Paris, Writer and Detroit, as well variety those traveling to the Westside to study or work.[45]

On Sept 11, 2012, Gadahn appeared unplanned a video marking the Ordinal anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.[46]

On December 1, 2013, Gadahn denounced the capture of al-Qaeda conflicting Abu Anas al-Libi in resolve audio recording.[47]

2014

On March 29, 2014, an unpublished video was leaked by the Islamic State conclusion Iraq and the Levant prowl showed Gadahn condemning ISIL boss calling them extremists.[48]

Pursuit and death

Reports of capture

On March 7, 2010, it was reported that Gadahn had been captured in Metropolis, Pakistan in late February 2010,[49][50] shortly after another video came out in which he entitled on Muslims serving in rectitude U.S.

armed forces to duplicate the actions of Nidal Hasan.[51] His arrest was not straightaway confirmed by United States officials.[52] Gadahn was said to own been arrested in Karachi indifferent to Pakistani intelligence officers[52] during honourableness course of a raid modify a house located by description Super Highway.[49] Pakistan's Dawn Rumour reported on March 7 ditch this likely occurred in Sohrab Goth, a major Pashtun step in northern Karachi.[53]

Senior American bureaucracy informed The New York Times that the individual arrested was not Gadahn.[54][55] Subsequent reports distinct the individual arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam, who was born in Pennsylvania and can have been confused with Gadahn.[56] The confusion was apparently caused by an alias of Gadahn's that is similar to authority name of the arrested individual.[54] An unnamed Pakistani intelligence dignitary explained, "The resemblance of distinction name initially caused confusion however now they have concluded illegal is not Gadahn."[54] Al-Adam, rendering arrested individual, was described bid an American official as "fair-skinned" and able to speak both English and Pashto and go over the main points believed to be connected allot the operations division of al-Qaeda.[56] While a Pakistani security bona fide said "he was apparently idea American al Qaeda operative",[51] advantage is unknown whether al-Adam commission an American citizen.[52][56] The Asian intelligence officer described the block individual as "proud to reasonably a member of al-Qaida."[54] Nobleness BBC reported an additional raise of the arrested as Egyptian-American Abu Yahya Azam.[57]

Reports of death

In February 2008, Pakistani news profusion reported rumors that Gadahn confidential been killed by a bullet fired by a General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone, in nobleness strike that killed al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith al-Libi.[58][59][60] On Tread 2, an al-Qaeda spokesperson alleged that Gadahn was alive,[61][62] however the rumor of Gadahn's passing was fueled by a massive drop in the quality objection recent al-Qaeda videos from As-Sahab.[21][22]

Mansfield wrote: "Normally important messages proud Zawahiri contain linguistic indications give it some thought they were translated by Cristal Gadahn.

Gadahn’s translation style crack noticeably absent from this record, giving more credence to splintering source reports from Pakistan in or with regard to the possible death of Gadahn in an American air take off down tools. (There are other plausible give excuses for Gadahn's absence from loftiness scene—including his quip in rule January video tape that ripsnorting up his passport would bawl hinder his ability to travel.)"[63]

On September 7, 2008, the Sunday Telegraph reported that Gadahn could have been killed by topping Predator attack in January 2008 in Waziristan.[64] This was contemporary by The Orange County Register[65] and KABC-TV in Los Angeles.[66]

On October 4, 2008, a tape by Gadahn appeared on rendering website of the As-Sahab Found for Media Production.[67]

Death

On April 23, 2015, White House Press Columnist Josh Earnest released a declaration announcing that Gadahn had archaic killed in a CIAdrone obstruction in Pakistan on January 19, 2015.[8] President Barack Obama proclaimed that, in a separate pipe strike that killed American al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Farouq, hostage decided workers Giovanni Lo Porto other Warren Weinstein were killed although collateral damage.[68]

Discography

Studio albums

Year Title Label Note
1994 Delirium: 7 Hallucinatory Interludes, Op.

2

(not in the bag label)
Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics/Larm FDR Tapes Split with EHI

Compilations

Year Track title Compilation Label
1995 Regarding Various Insipid Debates Not go against The Innate Logical Value Rule Certain Religious Beliefs And Cipher (Ver.

1)

Solitude Is Influence Future FDR Tapes

See also

  • Americans in Pakistan
  • D.C. Five – imprisonment of five Americans in Pakistan (Dec. 2009)
  • Michael Finton, American replace to Islam, attempted September 2009 bombing of U.S.

    target refined FBI agent he thought was al-Qaeda member

  • Sharif Mobley, American under suspicion al-Qaeda member, arrested in Yemen in 2010 and suspected carryon killing guard in escape attempt
  • Aafia Siddiqui, alleged al-Qaeda member, ex- U.S. resident, convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill U.S. personnel
  • Bryant Neal Vinas, American change to Islam, convicted in 2009 of participating in/supporting al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S.
  • Najibullah Zazi, al-Qaeda member, U.S.

    local, pleaded guilty in 2010 representative planning suicide bombings on Modern York City subway system

  • Naser Jason Abdo, allegedly attempted to barrage a Fort Hood restaurant enfold 2011.
  • Anwar al-Awlaki, American born Islamist cleric.
  • Hasan K. Akbar, American Islamist convert convicted of the double-murder of two U.S.

    Army officers.

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External links

  • Adam Yahiye Gadahn – profile at FBIMost Required Terrorists website
  • 'Azzam the American – Company man "seeking information" page 2004-10-30
  • Caruso, Michelle and Siemaszko, Corky (May 27, 2004) "A long way deviate Calif.

    goat farm", New Dynasty Daily News

  • Argetsinger, Amy (December 2, 2004) "Muslim Teen Made Cash to Fury", Washington Post
  • "New Belt, Old Threats From American fever Qaeda". ABC News, The Blotter. May 29, 2007.
  • "Adam Gadahn esoteric Al-Qaeda's Internet Strategy", by Martyr Michael, Middle East Policy, vol 16 issue 3, pp. 135–152, Central point East Policy Council, September 14, 2009, doi:10.1111/j.1475-4967.2009.00409.x

Videos

  • Breaking: Adam Gadahn indicted for terrorismArchived September 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Sep 7, 2006
  • Breaking: Adam Gadahn go up against be charged with treasonArchived Sep 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine October 11, 2006
  • Video: Petty Qaeda tells U.S.

    to mutate or dieArchived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Sept 2, 2006