Adam Gadahn
In a taunting, 24 minute message that dwelled on Obama’s setbacks, including the loss of Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, Adam Gadahn set out al-Qaida’s conditions for peace with the U.S., including cutting support for Israel and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
Gadahn said that if you compared the number of dead Muslims “with the relatively small number of Americans we have killed so far, it becomes crystal-clear that we haven’t even begun to even the score,” he said, dressed in a white robe and turban.
More From CNNCNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the 24-minute video, posted on websites known to carry such messages in the past and carrying the name of as-Sahab, al Qaeda’s media arm. In it, Gadahn speaks in English; the video features Arabic subtitles.
“Yes, Barack,” Gadahn says. “Just as our demands remain the same, the choice America and its allies face also remains the same — either the possible restoration of your safety and security by ignoring the opposition of your tyrannical corporations and special-interest groups and restoring the rights you have stolen from Muslims and other persecuted and oppressed nations, or guaranteeing for yourselves a future of misery, insecurity and ultimately defeat, should you continue to ravage our countries, interfere in our affairs and trample on our dignity, liberty and sovereignty.”
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These factions are intent on bringing the fight to our soil.
Their method of engaging in battle are tested and true for, literally, a thousand years. The USA is not equipped to fight this battle from a military standpoint alone. A long Jihad will cause the US to pull itself apart, pitting its people one against the other, giving these people the war on their terms. We will be as they are in Afghanistan and Iraq, a country at war with itself, and the world. Splintered groups who cannot agree on how the country should be ruled. that is what they want, the US in internal, and constant, turmoil.
At this time, in this history, they are winning the battle. We cannot close our borders, we cannot agree on how illegal aliens from ANY nation are to be handled. Our politicians are not to be trusted, and they have sold the soul of the nation to the highest bidder. The X and Y generations, in concert with the Progressives have lost the country, and until there is a will to do what is necessary, we will continue to lose this fight.
I’m sorry. I should have applauded Rich McDonald on his serious, dead serious actually, and accurate post. We cannot lose this fight, we need to elect leaders, not corrupt incumbents for the pork they brought (or bought) to their respective states, and most of all, Americans need to wake up to the need to be vigilant, and able to protect their homes. America is a sleeping giant, but it needs to wake up earlier in these times, before it is too late. This war has no end, we must be eternally vigilant, and performing profiling, unfortunate but necessary, PC or not. The enemy has NO ethics, they do not fight like an army, they lie, steal and kill because they are taught from the age of three, that in jihad, all of this is permissible, in fact it is an obligation to convert the entire world to Islam, or to kill them. Christians, Jews, Hindus and anyone else who is not Muslim must submit or die. This is preached in radical mosques all over America, not to mention most Arab and other Muslim countries. There never will be peace, we’d better get used to it. If they get their hands on WMD, they will use it without giving it a second thought. Muslims the world over will dance and hand out candy to Muslim kids if they can kill thousands (or millions) of Americans. And if innocent Muslims die as well, oh well, that is the price of jihad.
This makes me very worried for the future of the United States. Im a generation y and so concerned what is in the cards for this once great nation. America is falling and I honestly don’t know if it can ever get back to how it was before all the terrorism and wars in the middle east. But what are we to do? Some people are moving out, but my family can’t do that…where would we work in a foreign country? It just seems so hopeless at times…we need to be in prayer for America.