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[driver]

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Little is known about Gadahn’s role in al-Qaida. A Californian who converted to Islam, he disappeared soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. In 2004, the FBI announced it was seeking Gadahn in connection with possible terrorist threats against the U.S., but adding it did not have information linking him to any specific terror activities.</p>

<p>“You know that if you die as an unbeliever in battle against the Muslims you’re going straight to Hell without passing ‘Go,’” Gadahn said on the video, addressing American soldiers. “You know you’re considered by Bush and his bunch of warmongers as nothing more than expendable cannon fodder … You know they couldn’t care less about your safety and well-being.”</p>

<p>“We send a special invitation (to convert to Islam) to all of you fighting Bush’s crusader pipe dream in Afghanistan, Iraq and wherever else ‘W’ has sent you to die. You know the war can’t be won,” he said, using Bush’s nickname.</p>

<p>Gadahn also urged other Americans to convert to Islam.</p>

<p>“It is time for the unbelievers to discard these incoherent and illogical beliefs,” he said. “Isn’t it the time for the Christians, Jews, Buddhists and atheists to cast off the cloak of the spiritual darkness which enshrouds them and emerge into the light of Islam?”</p>

<p>Gadahn and al-Zawahri appeared in separate parts of the video, which was released by al-Qaida’s production wing, As-Sahab. Gadahn spoke with his face uncovered, resembling FBI photos, with his name and nom de guerre - “Azzam the American” - written in titles in Arabic and English next to him. Arabic subtitles translated his comments.</p>

<p>Besides the July 7 video, Gadahn is believed to be a masked figure who appeared in two previous videos not officially from al-Qaida, one given to ABC television in 2004 and another a few days before the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.</p>

<p>In the 2005 tape, the speaker - who had black cloth draped over his face, leaving only his eyes visible - threatened new terror attacks in Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. The 2004 tape praised the Sept. 11 attacks and said a new wave of attacks could come at any moment.</p>

<p>Much of Gadahn’s latest speech was dedicated to urging Americans to convert to Islam, and he dotted it with fluently recited Arabic verses from the Quran and stories from Islamic history.</p>

<p>He denounced Christianity as a “hollow shell of a religion, whose followers cling to an empty faith and a false conviction in their own salvation.”</p>

<p>“It is time for the unbelievers to discard these incoherent and illogical beliefs,” he said. “We invite all Americans and other unbelievers to Islam, wherever they are.”</p>

<p>Gadahn grew up in rural simplicity on a ranch southwest of Hemet, Calif. His father, Philip, said he moved there in the 1970s to escape the noise and traffic of the city, changing the family name from Pearlman because he was starting a new life. The family tried raising goats as a business, but it wasn’t profitable and they now keep them just to eat the grass around the home as fire protection.

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[DRJ4]

<p>I believe I read that Gadahn changed his name when he became a Muslim and that his family name is Pearlman. Did anyone else read this?</p>

<p>It’s very interesting that an American would be trusted by the al-Qaeda leadership. I wonder what he did to earn this trust?</p>

[system]

<p>I’m not sure it’s that they trust him, as that they are using him. The commentator on the TV news I happened to watch suggested that they may be hoping to stir up Islamic terrorist cells in the US similar to those that are causing so much trouble in Britain.</p>

<p>btw, driver, what does the CCposter part of the title have to do with this story??</p>

[driver]

<p>Have you not noticed the very strong physical resemblance to one Captain Jack Sparrow? And the similarity in prosaic style to TheDad?
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[system]

<p>Sorry, I didn’t see any particular similarities.</p>

[kluge]

<p>Susantm: At least it’s not a cartoon character. Be thankful for that.</p>

[driver]

<p>Ah, and Kluge. A.k.a Wile E. Coyote.</p>

[Tookie]

<p>I think he favors Elvis more than Jack Sparrow. I wish they wouldn’t give him any press.</p>

[driver]

<p>Ah, Kluge…
pretty boy…can’t you show me nuthin’ but surrender?

Whatever his role, the Coyote never fails to elicit the viewer’s sympathy, despite the heinousness of his goals — eating Bugs Bunny, stealing sheep, or doing whatever it is he wants to do with the Road Runner. We see something of ourselves in his confidence going into an enterprise, his hideously complex machinations, and, often, his momentary foreknowledge just prior to defeat. Jokes, or gags, often seen during the episodes, include the very frequent failure of Wile’s gadgets (purchased from the Acme Corporation), but most noted is his usual falling down a canyon or cliff; seeing him fall far down before seeing the classic puff of smoke that emerges after the crash.

Rule 1. The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “Beep-Beep!”</p>

<h1>Rule 2. No outside force can harm the Coyote - only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products.</h1>

<p># Rule 3. The Coyote could stop anytime - if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.” - George Santayana)</p>

<h1>Rule 4. No dialogue ever, except “Beep-Beep!”</h1>

<h1>Rule 5. The Road Runner must stay on the road - otherwise, logically, he would not be called Road Runner.</h1>

<h1>Rule 6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters - the Southwest American desert.</h1>

<h1>Rule 7. All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.</h1>

<h1>Rule 8. Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy.</h1>

<h1>Rule 9. The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.</h1>

<h1>(Rule 10.) The audience’s sympathy must remain with the Coyote.

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[kluge]

<p>Driver, as long as you don’t start chanelling the spirit of Sylvester the Cat again. That was just <shudder> creepy.</shudder></p>

[driver]

<p>Oh, thuffering thuccotash, that was just fun, with an arch tone. </p>

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<p>You forgot Rule Number 11: When the Coyote walks off a cliff, he doesn’t start falling until he looks down and realizes that he’s just walked off a cliff.</p>

[driver]

<p>Coyote never just walks off the cliff…at least not in the Roadrunner series. He is propelled down the cliff by the force of his maniacal obsession and the failure of his bogus Acme products…The Joe Wilson bomb, the TANG giant slingshot, the Iraqi Museum torpedo, etc.</p>

[kluge]

<p>Driver fantasizes that she’s Geococcyx californianus, a species of ground cuckoo who, in cartoons, always wins despite having no detectible intelligence, due to scriptwriters who are paid to follow a pat formula.</p>

<p>(By the way, we’re still waiting for the Ronnie Earle disbarment proceedings to start. Any day now, right, Driver?)</p>

[driver]

<p>I actually do think that Ronnie will join Kluge on one of his long trips down the canyon. Real life will take more time than Kluge’s many CC trips down to “poof”, but it will happen.</p>