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That is definitely true, I'm sure, Naut, yet frustratingly unprovable...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 16, 2007 at 1:45 PM
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saul
In answer to your question, I suspect far more than we know of...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 16, 2007 at 12:01 PM
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Yeah, his personal history puts him as a loner and a strange one. I, for
one, am glad he moved to the Middle East (or Pakistan or wherever), because he surely would have walked into a crowded building one day and shot a bunch of people if he'd stayed in the U.S. We have enough of that already...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 14, 2007 at 9:52 PM
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Gadahn was a bigshot a couple of years ago, got put in a bunch of
documentaries, issued a few videotapes, became the "Tokyo Rose" of al Qaeda. Anyway, he went underground after he was tried in absentia for Treason. He's now gone to ground in Pakistan somewhere. He's probably hanging out with his buddy, Osama. You hear about him occasionally, especially when someone does a peice on American jihadists. He gets mentioned with Walker and Padilla and few others. Let's just hope it stays a few...
But here's the scary part, M.: Just because some of these guys aren't blowing anything up doesn't mean they do not believe in and support the cause of the greater umma...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 14, 2007 at 9:50 PM
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I've heard of him before.
Just creepy.
posted by
Matie
on September 14, 2007 at 8:46 PM
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I think they're just bluffing. If they were capable of pulling off another attack, they almost certainly would have done it by now.
Who's this "Azzam the American", anyway? How come I'd never even heard his name mentioned before this week?
Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction,
I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have.
posted by
Mademoiselle
on September 14, 2007 at 11:49 AM
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Indeed, TAPS...
posted by
saul_relative
on September 14, 2007 at 11:26 AM
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Wow, Saul_relative
That is a scary thought.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 14, 2007 at 11:13 AM
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