Adam the "american" is Dead... will anyone miss him?

[DOAcop38]

good news - adam" the american" Gadahn ,aka "***am the American", has reportedly been killed (THANK GOD) by a predator drone attack on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. What would take a pampered OC,Calif boy to the extreme end of civilization,live like the middle ages, then rage against a country that kept him healthy and offered everything he could want ,is BEYOND me. I ,lefty liberal and willing to listen to all points, will most assuredly NOT miss a POS like him. He had no excuse. "his people" were never oppressed,starved ,or brutalized. and no one will ever know how many people around the world were horribly misinformed about the american way of life, and were encouraged to hurt,kill,or maim people because of this idiot!

[JTShooter]

Thank God.

He was a dirty POS and deserved a much worse fate... but I'll take this...

[GrndPnd0311]

What would take a pampered OC,Calif boy to the extreme end of civilization,live like the middle ages, then rage against a country that kept him healthy and offered everything he could want ,is BEYOND me.

I am guessing one of the factors was his Homosexual Judge of a Father. A little embarrassment and the internet can go a long way.

[equinox137]

....another monster gone

[TheKansan]

This is the other one.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/peop...r/profile.html

[Kieth M.]

Hate to be the buzzkill, here. I hope it's good news but, accroding to a Jewish newspaper, we have to wait a bit to be sure:

September 8, 2008 | 3:59 pm

***am the American—aka Adam Gadahn—believed dead

“Killer computer nerd” Adam Gadahn, the California native who converted to Islam and took over al Qaeda’s propaganda machine, hasn’t been heard from in months, leading intelligence officials to speculate that he’s dead. here’s the story from The Telegraph:

Mr Gadahn has been credited with helping transform al-Qa’eda’s al-Sahab propaganda wing into a slick operation which communicates in fluent English and produces professional quality DVDs, including one for Osama bin Laden last year.

But he may have fallen victim to an expanded programme of predator assassinations which in the last year has targeted and killed many of al-Qa’eda’s military commanders, terrorist trainers and facilitators.

Jihadists around the world will be watching as closely as intelligence officials this week to see whether Mr Gadahn - also known as ***am al-Ameriki - produces a new video message to mark September 11, as he has done every year since 2003.

If there is no message it will be taken as near certain confirmation that he is dead – killed either in a strike by Hellfire missiles, or perhaps by jihadi colleagues who have grown jealous of his success.

To be sure, this is not the first time Gadahn, who was born Adam Pearlman and grew up in Riverside County, has been suspected dead.

[reils49]

One more cockroach burned out of it's cave. Too bad good ol' Taliban Johnny didn't meet the same fate.

I can say from personal experience, I dealt with more than a few EPW's who were anglo.

[GrndPnd0311]

One more cockroach burned out of it's cave. Too bad good ol' Taliban Johnny didn't meet the same fate.

I can say from personal experience, I dealt with more than a few EPW's who were anglo.

Were one or some of them a Chechen? Found a few of those and had a sniper problem with one of them for a bit....

[JTShooter]

I "met" a few Chechens.... but I've also "met" a few Italians, French, British, and even American....

[Kieth M.]

I am guessing one of the factors was his Homosexual Judge of a Father. A little embarrassment and the internet can go a long way.

I can't find that anywhere about Gadhan, started with Wikipedia. John Walker Lindh's father is an attorney who turned gay. Is that the one you meant?

[reils49]

Were one or some of them a Chechen? Found a few of those and had a sniper problem with one of them for a bit....

I "met" a few Chechens.... but I've also "met" a few Italians, French, British, and even American....

To be quite honest gents, I couldn't tell you what they were. Do Chechens wear a man dress?

[GrndPnd0311]

I can't find that anywhere about Gadhan, started with Wikipedia. John Walker Lindh's father is an attorney who turned gay. Is that the one you meant?

You are correct sir. Thanks for the catch. Gadhan's father was the hippie...

[GrndPnd0311]

Juba the Chechen sniper:

Juba the Sniper Legend haunting troops in Iraq


By Monte Morin, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, April 22, 2007


BAGHDAD -- In a country where rumors exist as fact, and in a war where initial reports are often wrong, there seemed to be little stopping the legend of Juba the Sniper.

Islamic militant Web sites, comics, bootleg videos and songs had, for almost two years, touted the deadly prowess of the “Qannas Baghdad,” the apocryphal insurgent sniper credited with killing scores — some say hundreds — of U.S. and Iraqi troops in every quarter of Iraq’s capital.

Like a wartime boogeyman, Juba had twice been reported captured, only to spring up again, Freddie Krueger-style, in Jihadist propaganda and U.S. military patrol briefings.

“Yes, he is real,” insisted “Bobbie,” an Iraqi interpreter who has worked with U.S. troops in Baghdad for two years. (Iraqi interpreters working for U.S. forces often do not give their real names for fear of reprisal from insurgents.)

“He’s killed many people. He was trained during the time of Saddam. He can shoot me when I’m walking; he can shoot me when I’m running; he can shoot me in a vehicle. He is very good.”

In the last several months however, tales of Juba have all but vanished.

To the believers, Juba was killed or captured. To those who never believed the tales, the explanation is that Juba was a fad that ran its course.

“It’s kind of lost its flavor,” Cable News Network correspondent Michael Ware said of the myth. “It really wasn’t more than an Internet legend to begin with.”

While spokesmen for the U.S. military have long denied the existence of Juba, rumors had nonetheless filtered down to ground troops. For them, the tales only exacerbated a very real threat. By some accounts, Juba cruised the capitol’s streets tucked in the trunk of an auto, like the mysterious D.C.-area sniper of 2002, firing at victims through openings in the trunk.

In others, the Dragunov-toting Juba often left a taunting calling card proclaiming, “What has been taken in blood cannot be regained except by blood — The Baghdad Sniper.”

Skeptics held that Juba was not one, or even several snipers. Instead, he was the product of hype and fear on the part of U.S. soldiers, as well as enemy propagandists who hope to sap the troops’ morale.

“Juba the Sniper? He’s a product of the U.S. military,” said Capt. Brendan Hobbs, 31, of Tampa, Fla., commander of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment. “We’ve built up this myth ourselves.”

Hobbs, whose company is part of the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, likens the Juba legend to those rumors circulated in the early months of the war of crack Chechen snipers lurking throughout the country.

To be sure, insurgent snipers have exacted a toll on U.S. and Iraqi troops from Anbar province to Baghdad.

After a relatively peaceful start to the Baghdad security plan — a campaign aimed at quelling the ages-old animosity between Shiite and Sunni Muslims here — snipers have re-emerged as a deadly presence.

In New Baghdad, a sprawling collection of predominantly Shiite neighborhoods bordering the Mahdi Army stronghold of Sadr City, sniper fire recently killed two U.S. soldiers in as many days.

“Two soldiers killed by a sniper in two consecutive days — that’s almost unheard of,” said an officer with the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. “You’ve got to do the pee-pee dance when you’re out there now. You’re always moving.”

In the 9 Nissan Security District of New Baghdad, where attacks and murders had dropped by an incredible 70 percent during the first two months of the security plan, commanders say they are encouraged by the willingness of residents here to share information with soldiers who have moved into neighborhood combat outposts.

But with the recent sniper deaths, as well as an increase in attacks by explosively formed projectiles, or EFPs, troops are saying that the honeymoon is over.

At the colorfully named Cobra Cabana — a deserted potato snack factory that now serves as a combat outpost in New Baghdad — soldiers and officers said they were anticipating a violent April, now that radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has renounced an earlier call for followers to lay down arms. And with that violence, a possible return of Juba the Sniper.

“There are new films showing that the Baghdad Sniper’s taking two shots now,” said Capt. Joseph Rosen, 30 of Leesville, La., commander of Company C, 1-8 Cav. “He hits someone, then he hits the first responder too.”

As Rosen’s troops busily fortified the cavernous factory recently, soldiers speculated on the sniper threat. Juba or no Juba, they said they plan to keep their heads down.

“I know there’s one sniper with [a lot] of kills,” said Staff Sgt. Maxwell Davis, 30, of Marfa, Texas. “I think the guys out here aren’t really snipers. They’re more like marksmen. They’re watching us, and that’s all I’m gonna say.”

[reils49]

Juba the Chechen sniper:

Was this the guy they called "The Ghost"???

[GrndPnd0311]

Was this the guy they called "The Ghost"???

yea..