Here We Go Again...It's al Qaeda's Adam Gadahn Watch All Over Again

Adam Gadahn, the epitome of spineless, gutless American Leftists, who set out from America to join al Qaeda and who has been responsible for a good deal of the media propaganda for al Qaeda over the years is being forecasted as being killed....again. If you remember, nearly nine months ago it was all over the blogosphere (milblogs) that Adam Gadahn had been killed in the predator attack that killed al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi while in Pakistan. It was all over the place but then there was never any DNA or body or concrete proof that Gadahn had been killed.

At the time, I said that when a couple of hellfires hit just right, there isn't going to be a lot of real identifiable parts left of a scum like Gadahn. So, anyway, there has been nothing but silence from Gadahn ever since. I remember one of the arguments that Gadahn hadn't been killed was that al Qaeda didn't announce his martyrdom and I argued that although a member of al Qaeda, he was an American and an American of Jewish descent no less...would al Qaeda really have tooted his horn?

This article at the Telegraph talks about how it will be confirmation of Gadahn's death if Gadahn doesn't appear before the world for his fifth straight propaganda video on the anniversary of 9/11. Here's some of the article:

Their victims have included experienced Arab leaders and, it is now thought, Adam Gadahn, a former heavy-metal fan and so-called "killer computer nerd" originally from California. Nothing has been heard from him for months, leading intelligence experts to conclude that he may be dead.

Jihadists around the world will be watching as closely as intelligence officials this week to see whether Mr Gadahn - also known as Azzam 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.

Part of me wants Gadahn to be dead and part of me wants him to be alive so he can continue to walk the mountains of Pakistan in fear for his life, each and every day. And quite frankly, if there is one guy I'd love to see us capture instead of kill, it is Gadahn. I want his sorry ass hauled back to the U.S.A. to stand trial for treason and conspiracy against America. I want to see this piece of excrement to be tried by Americans and put to death by Americans.

Al-Qa'eda's American-born propaganda chief may have died in predator attack

Months of attacks by unmanned US predator aircraft have caused carnage among the middle ranks of terrorist leaders in the lawless lands along the border with Afghanistan, where al-Qa'eda remains dangerous despite suffering a serious defeat in Iraq.
Their victims have included experienced Arab leaders and, it is now thought, Adam Gadahn, a former heavy-metal fan and so-called "killer computer nerd" originally from California. Nothing has been heard from him for months, leading intelligence experts to conclude that he may be dead.
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 Azzam 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.
Mr Gadahn is now thought to have been killed in an attack launched from a remotely piloted aircraft in January which killed al-Qaeda's then military commander, Abu Laith al-Libi, in Mir Ali, Waziristan.
Al-Libi was the most prominent of a series of terrorist leaders to be killed in recent months. Abu Saeed al-Masri, who was implicated in attacks on Britain, was killed in July. Syrians, Somalis and Kuwaitis have also been killed.
Evan Kohlmann, an investigator with the Nine Eleven Finding Answers (Nefa) foundation which monitors terrorist groups, said: "Al-Qaeda acknowledges that several of its leaders have been taken out. There aren't that many experienced leaders left in the middle ranks and they are being replaced by younger guys with no credentials but lots of enthusiasm."
Experts now fear that younger leaders will attempt to prove themselves by launching bloody attacks such as a suicide bomb attack on workers at a munitions factory in Pakistan last month which killed 70.
Gadahn has taken on real importance as al-Qa'eda's best known Westerner. He also became the poster boy of would-be jihadis around the world who are radicalised on the internet - and identify with a former Orange County teenager who once reviewed heavy metal bands before finding radical Islam and travelling to Pakistan in 1998.