American Al-Qaida Operative Surfaces Again in Bin Laden Video Release

By Evan Kohlmann

As wire agencies are now reporting, Al-Qaida's As-Sahab Productions unit has released a full-length visual presentation of Usama Bin Laden's latest audio recording first broadcast on Arab satellite television last month.  Interestingly, one of the versions of the UBL audio released by As-Sahab includes English-language voice-overs by "Azzam al-Amriki", an American Al-Qaida operative who has been identified as California-native Adam Gadahn.  Gadahn is thought to play a significant role in the workings of As-Sahab--a role that can be traced as far back as videos documenting the martyrdom wills of 9/11 suicide hijackers.

"Associated Press: Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the U.S. had resorted to the same �repressive� tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaida leader that was posted Monday on a militant Web site.  The tape appeared to be a complete version of one that was first broadcast Jan. 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel, in which bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaida terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil.  �I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don�t want to die humiliated or deceived,� bin Laden said."

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