Sunday, March 07, 2010

One for the good guys!

Adam Gadahn the American born al Qaeda spokesman has been captured in Pakistan. Gadahn, also known as "Azzam the American," had just released a new al Qaeda video calling on all "honest and vigilant Muslims" to go on shooting sprees against Americans a la Nidal Hasan at Ft. Hood. Gadahn had a million dollar bounty on his head and has long been on Washington's most wanted list. He is the first American charged with treason since WWII.

Gadhan was born to a Jewish family and his father converted to Christianity shortly before birth and changed the family name from Pearlman to Gadhan while they were living in Oregon. The media is reporting that Gadhan was homeschooled in southern California while living on a goat farm and converted to Islam when he was 17. He went to Pakistan in 1998 to study Islam and tt was after 9/11 that Gadhan joined al Qaeda and went for proper terrorist training at camps in Afghanistan.