Reports: Pakistan Arrests ‘American Al-Qaeda’

According to the Associated Press, the American-born spokesman for Al-Qaeda (Adam Yahye Gadahn) has finally been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday; the same day that Adam Gadahn also appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country.

The many faces of Adam Gadahn

Thank God that bumbling idiot has been arrested.

The arrest of Gadahn is a major victory in the U.S.-led battle against Al-Qaeda and will be taken as a positive sign that Pakistan is cooperating more fully with Washington. Furthermore, AP reported that it also follows the recent detentions of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi.

Adam Gadahn grew up on a California farm, and was home-schooled until the age of 17. He later converted to Islam and his family in California has said they last heard from him in 2002. In 2004, the FBI identified him as part of an Al-Qaeda cell that was planning attacks aimed at disrupting that year’s presidential election in the United States.

In October 2004, he began appearing in disguise in Al-Qaeda videos. Gadahn finally dropped the disguise in 2006.

Is that Adam Gadahn eating Doritos?

As one of the token white guys (and Muppet-like propagandist) for the brainless idiots known as Al-Qaeda, it is a relief that we will not have to see any more of his future nonsensical (and pathological) videotaped rants on the Internet anytime soon.

If the reports of his arrest in Pakistan are true, let us all collectively breathe a sigh of relief and hope that we never have to hear the name ‘Adam Gadahn’ ever again.

Although AP and Reuters had both reported that it was Adam Gadahn, CBS News is now reporting that it may have been another high-level American Al-Qaeda operative.CBS News mentioned a New York Times report which sourced American and Pakistani officials who reported “that the man arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahedeen al-Adam, and describes him as an Al-Qaeda commander who was born in Pennsylvania.”

Well, it seems that the facts are still coming out of Pakistan on this one.

Personally, I still hope they caught Adam Gadahn…

UPDATE- 7:19pm EST Well, it seems that there are conflicting reports now as to the true identity of the American arrested in Pakistan.