US-born al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn has appeared in a new video urging President Obama to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and offering peace conditions with the United States if a set of conditions were met.
Gadahn urged the US to withdraw “all soldiers and spies” from all Muslim nations, to release all Muslim detainees, and to end all support for Israel. He added that the US should bar its citizens from traveling to Palestine.
The 24-minute video, in English with Arabic subtitles, also criticizes President Obama for his “aggression and interference” across the Middle East and said he is “running the affairs of a declined and besieged empire.”
Gadahn has been issuing statements for al-Qaeda under the name Azzam the American since 2004. He was briefly reported captured by the Pakistani government in early March, though it was later revealed that it was not actually him. Gadahn was also reported killed in a 2008 drone strike.
"He added that the US should bar its citizens from traveling to Palestine."
Ah yes, once again just what the Israeli Right Wing would like as well.
All that bottled water the US Coast Guard delivered to Saakashvili's Georgia after their sneak attack on Russian peacekeepers and supposedly their own citizens in Osetia.
When is a USCG cutter going to show up in Gaza chock full of humanitarian aid?
It is very interesting just how much this "Al Qaeda" winds up always reinforcing Israeli policy, like setting Sunni and Shia at one another's throats.
It is really a loss that Gianfranco Sanguinetti is nowhere to be found for an interview.
Interesting offer of peace. What do people think: Are these reasonable terms for a peaceful settlement? Should Americans accept the offer?
Rofl at CIADUH.
Done. Sold. Where do we sign?
The only part I wonder about is why Americans would be barred from helping the Palestinians? I understand keeping the CIA types out, but some Americans have been trying to help.
Otherwise. No more Americans dying. We save hundreds of billions of our tax dollars that we can use for our own economic recovery. Sounds like a great deal for the US.
While at the same time throwing thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of "defense" related employees out of work. What's the net economic impact on the U.S.? I'm not arguing for the status quo. I'm curious.
The demand that the US bar its "citizens" from travelling to Palestine is clearly directed against the dual-citizenship types, upon whose support the Zionist state rests. The number of US citizens travelling to Palestine to help the Palestinians is statistically insignificant.
Pure propaganda! You would have to be an idiot to accept this to be what they claim it to be. I thought we we told that the Pentagon shut down their propaganda operations aimed at the American people. Obviously not!
America being non-interventionist in the affairs of Muslim nations would indeed be the course with most benefit to us as it would halt us from the brink of bankruptcy and save trillions. To our further benefit, American disengagement would assure the swift defeat of al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups with pretensions to transnationalist jihad, for it has been the American presence in the region that has resuscitated the faltering jihadist movement. Upon our departure, Bin Laden and his acolytes would be forced to confront all the secular, 'apostate' regimes of the Muslim world which would then combine to quash al-Qaeda and its imitators. Even without American aid, the contest would still be uneven. Algeria brought down the nationalist jihadis of the FIS who were more numerous and had a stouter political base than transnationalist jihadists like al-Qaeda. Indeed, the secularists and nationalist jihadists alike despise al-Qaeda's ideology and would see to it that the organization is purged.