{"id":685023,"date":"2010-03-08T04:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=71589"},"modified":"2010-03-08T04:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T09:30:18","slug":"they%e2%80%99re-pretty-sure-he%e2%80%99s-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/685023","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re pretty sure he\u2019s an American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_71594\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/08\/theyre-pretty-sure-hes-an-american\/adam-gadahn\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71594\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/adam-gadahn-150x79.jpg?resize=150%2C79\" alt=\"\" title=\"adam-gadahn\" width=\"150\" height=\"79\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-71594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well, he&#8217;s got quite a beard &#8212; close enough<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, they&#8217;ve captured <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100308\/ap_on_re_as\/as_pakistan_al_qaida_arrest\">somebody in Pakistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Pakistani officials have contradicted each other on whether the suspect is Adam Gadahn, 31, who has appeared in videos threatening the West. Two intelligence officers and a senior government official identified the detained man Sunday as Gadahn. However, a different official Monday said the suspect was an American, but not Gadahn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He might be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/08\/world\/asia\/08qaeda.html?ref=world\">this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>American and Pakistani officials said the man arrested was Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al-Adam, who was described as having been born in Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In any case they are pretty confident he&#8217;s an American because he&#8217;s overweight, is so certain about everything, doesn&#8217;t like soccer, keeps complaining about what&#8217;s available on cable, insists he&#8217;s just a re-enactor preparing for Comic-Con, and is inappropriately loud when demanding everybody speak English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=71589&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_71589\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he&#8217;s got quite a beard &#8212; close enough Well, they&#8217;ve captured somebody in Pakistan: Pakistani officials have contradicted each other on whether the suspect is Adam Gadahn, 31, who has appeared in videos threatening the West. Two intelligence officers and a senior government official identified the detained man Sunday as Gadahn. However, a different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ScL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}