Frankly, I think this fat fuck is dead since he hasn't been seen in months lisping his way through a video, and lately the al Qaeda propaganda videos lack his usual flair.
Whatever. Now though, the U.S. is employing a new method designed to ferret out this punk if indeed he's still drawing air.
Adam Gadahn, the former Californian heavy-metal headbanger turned al-Qaida mouthpiece, has vexed American officials for four years with his bombastic, and sometimes threatening, video taunts. But now U.S. officials have launched an aggressive new media campaign to try to smoke him out. In ads that have been running on more than 30 radio stations in Afghanistan, the FBI and State Department ask for the public’s help in locating Gadahn--and in the process seem to taunt the 29-year-old.
The radio spots, obtained by NBC News, begin by stating: “Being a man means fighting for what is right, defending your family, your community and your country. Adam Yahiye Gadahn is not a man.”
Produced in Dari and Pashtu, languages spoken along the border with Pakistan, the ads continue: “Born American, he betrayed not only his family and his community but also his country. There is no way to trust someone who is willing to betray the very land they were born on. Now he is committing more atrocities against Afghanistan. Bring a traitor to justice; stop his atrocities from reaching you and your family."
The radio ads, complete with music, end by asking locals with information on Gadahn’s whereabouts to contact the U.S. Embassy’s Rewards for Justice office in Kabul. “If the information you provide leads to his capture, you may be entitled to a reward. For your safety, your call will be confidential,” the ads state.
Mike Darmiento is the Assistant Director of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, and oversees the Rewards for Justice program. NBC News spoke to Darmiento in his spacious office in Rosslyn, Va. He explained that, with all the rumors swirling around that Gadahn may have been killed by a Predator attack in February in North Waziristan, it was time to ferret out the truth.
"We had heard information that possibly he had been killed back in February. And we just decided it's time to really push this some more to see if we can develop some additional information and try to locate him once and for all," Darmiento said.
The U.S. Rewards for Justice program also has released wanted posters of Gadahn, and matchbooks emblazoned with his face that are being distributed in Afghanistan. Federal prosecutors indicted Gadahn for treason and for providing material support to al-Qaida in 2006, and the Rewards for Justice program is offering a reward of $1 million for information that leads to his arrest.
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