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...attacks in Western Europe. The commando is reported to be made up of 15 men - including Americans, Arabs, Chechens and four Germans - allegedly under the leadership of al-Qaeda operatives Abu Abdul Rahman al-Najdi, who was born in Saudi Arabia, and a Californian convert to Islam, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, who is on the FBI's most-wanted-terrorists list. But intelligence officials don't appear to know the current whereabouts of the al-Qaeda-led commando. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey in Pakistan...
...streets of America shall run red with blood." The threat, delivered on one of those al-Qaeda videos that appear occasionally online, wasn't that unusual. Except that the man in it and three other videos spoke in perfect American English. His name is Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 28, a Californian who converted to Islam as a teen. Gadahn, who first appeared in an al-Qaeda video as a half-masked terrorist identified as "Azzam the American," was charged last week with treason for conspiring against the U.S. Now thought to be in Pakistan, he was added...
Treason is a rare crime. According to the FBI, just eight people have been convicted of it in the nation's history, most for wartime actions. Gadahn is the first American charged since Tomoya Kawakita, a Japanese American who abused captured U.S. troops during World War II and was convicted in 1952. Kawakita was pardoned by President John F. Kennedy, but not all accused traitors have been so lucky. Here are a few of the most memorable...
...announcement last week that it was seeking Gadahn for questioning conjured memories of John Walker Lindh, the young Californian convert to Islam who in 2002 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for serving in the Taliban army. But it also called to mind the cautionary tale of Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield, another American convert, who just a week before had been released from jail after U.S. officials mistakenly tied him to the March bombings in Madrid. Had al-Qaeda found a gateway through an American recruit, or were authorities again overreaching...
Americans could be forgiven for wondering, given the confused, conflicting signals the government sent with its latest terrorism alert. Besides asking citizens to be on the lookout for Gadahn and six other alleged al-Qaeda associates, Ashcroft repeated the claim of an al-Qaeda--related group that preparations for a massive attack inside the U.S. were "90%" done, although he acknowledged that officials had not picked up any specifics about a plot. Intelligence officials questioned the credibility of the group but insisted there was ample support for Ashcroft's warning. The same day that Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller...