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'Welcome Bush with bombs'
06/01/2008 16:53 - (SA)
Dubai - An American al-Qaeda militant urged
Islamist militants to welcome President George W Bush with
bombs when he visits the Middle East this week and tore up his
US passport on camera.
"Welcome him not with flowers and applause but with bombs
and traps," Adam Gadahn said in an Arabic aside on a 50-minute
video posted on the internet on Sunday, which was mostly
recorded in English and aimed at the American public.
Gadahn, also known as "Azzam the American", said the jihad
against the United States would continue until it released
Muslims from its jails. In a theatrical move, he took his US passport from his
breast pocket and showed its pages on camera before ripping it
up in protest at the treatment of Muslim detainees.
"The jihad against you will remain our duty as long as there
remains even one Muslim in American captivity," Gadahn said.
"That is why it is incumbent upon you (the American people)
to take the steps necessary to force the regime in Washington to
free each and every one of them, wherever they are and whatever
their supposed crime."
The authenticity of the tape could not immediately be
verified, but it was posted by As-Sahab, al-Qaeda's media arm,
and had been advertised on an Islamist site for days.
Gadahn is a California-born convert to Islam and the first
American to be charged with treason since the World War Two era.
He is believed to be in Pakistan.
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