March 21, 2008

Where's Adam Gadahn? New bin Laden Message not Subtitled

I've been really busy but I thought I'd throw up a couple of quick thoughts on the newest bin Laden message about "Palestine". So, the MSM is reporting on the content of the message, but I don't see much commentary about some highly unusual aspects of it.

Two days ago a "new" bin laden "video" came out which was obviously old. The content of the message was about the Mohammad cartoon controversy. An old message about an old issue. When it came out I noted how unusual it was that the announcement came without the usual banner.

That led me to proclaim, "Case closed: Osama bin Laden is dead!"

You can follow my thoughts on why the evidence seemed to suggest that here.

But yesterday another "new" bin Laden message came out. This one was even more unusual than the first. At least the bin Laden Muhammad cartoon video was subtitled in English. It's not clear if the message was the work of American traitor Adam Gadahn or not. It lacked much of his pizzaz, but since it's obviously an old message it's possible it is the work of Gadahn but just had not been released until now.

No one bothered to subtitle the new message. Think about the implications of that.

If the "Mohammed cartoon" message was poorly produced, this one has the lowest production value of any al Qaeda message that I've seen in, literally, years. Go over and watch the video here. Even though it's in Arabic only I think you'll notice the differences in the normal as Sahab video's immediately.

The most glaring difference is that it was not subtitled in English.

When the message came out yesterday I e-mailed a few people about it, including AllahP, so I'll quote him quoting me:

No announcement at all on AQ’s websites, no banner, no graphic, nada, despite the fact that the message comes from number one himself.

I'd really like to see a full translation of the message before I jumped to the conclusion that it was new. The Mo cartoon message was proclaimed new by the MSM, and many of them tried to put it in the context of the republishing of the cartoons, but nowhere in the video did it mention "republishing", something pointed out not only by me but also by the SITE Institute.

As of this moment, my only knowledge about this "new" Palestinian message is what I read filtered through the MSM. New? Maybe, but let's not forget that the Palestinians have been negotiating with the "Zionist entity" for years and years.

So, the case isn't closed on bin Laden being dead after all. It's very much an open case, even thought the new audio doesn't settle the question and leads to many others. Questions about relevance, but also questions about where he might be should his corpse continue to be animated. As AllahP noted about the Mohammad cartoon message:

Sounds like he’s phoning it in, literally.

So, if alive, where is bin Laden?

So, that question is still out there, but the evidence keeps mounting that America's only indicted traitor, Adam "Azzam al-Amreki" Gadahn is missing, presumed dead. In my mind, that's some pretty good news.