Saturday, February 09, 2008

Whither Adam "The Traitor" Gadahn?

It's been more than a week since anyone has seen or heard from Adam Gadahn (d/b/a The Traitor, aka Azzam the American). No one quite knows whether he was killed in the airstrike that killed al Libi, and no one in al Qaeda is saying. Then again, who's supposed to report the death of the guy tasked with reporting deaths and mayhem?

NBC is reporting that there are rumblings that Gadahn's terrorist minions are worried for Gadahn. Awww. How sweet. They actually care whether this scum survives or not.
Jihadist sources on the Pakistan side of the border are telling local journalists they are worried. One who described himself as a “very close friend” of Gadahn said the 28-year-old California native had until recently been spending most of his time in the populated areas of South Waziristan, near the towns of Wana, Azam Warsak and Shahkai.

The same friend said Gadahn had left for North Waziristan a week before the Predator attack in Mir Ali, where he was supposed to attend “an important meeting”. The friend said that, after the Predator attack on January 31, they lost “all contact” with Gadahn.

"All our friends are worried about him but so far we could not make any contact with him. We had sent two of our friends to Mir Ali to locate him and provide us with details about him," the supposed friend explained.

He added that other militants who traveled with Gadahn also were missing.
Maybe they're dead because of the harsh Afghan/Pakistani winter or Hellfires, and I'd settle for either one. If videos start showing up, it still wont settle matters since some videos could have been produced before Gadahn was dispatched to hell.

Bill Roggio notes that if Gadahn was indeed dead, someone in al Qaeda would be reporting his death, just as surely they did for al Libi. After all, Gadahn was American and they'd want to play up the fact that an American Islamist died for the cause.

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