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Al-Qaeda video tape evidence indicts “Azzam the American” but not bin Laden

by Ed Haas, Muckraker Report

October 13, 2006 – According to Associated Press writer Jeremiah Marquez in his October 11, 2006 article, U.S. Indicts American in al-Qaeda Video, ‘the charge of treason was used for the first time in the United States’ war on terrorism Wednesday, filed against a California man who appeared in propaganda videos for al-Qaeda.’

An Internet search of this article title reveals that virtually every media outlet in the United States picked up this story by either reprinting the Associated Press article or creating another version of the same content.

Indicted is a 28-year-old California native named Adam Gadahn. The indictment of treason was handed up by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana, California. In the indictment it is alleged that Gadahn, by his appearing in videos promoting al-Qaeda, “gave al Qaeda aid and comfort…with intent to betray the United States”.

The indictment goes on to say that Gadahn, who has now become known as Azzam al-Amriki, ‘announced in a 2004 video that he joined al-Qaeda’. The FBI says that it has considered Gadahn an al-Qaeda operative since 2004.

It is important to note the “evidence” used by the U.S. Government to gain this indictment. It was the al-Qaeda videotapes in which Gadahn allegedly appears.

Washington Post staff writers Dan Eggen and Karen DeYoung wrote their version of the treason story in an article titled U.S. Supporter of Al-Qaeda Is Indicted on Treason Charge. This is the same Dan Eggen that whistled the FBI’s tune as to why the Osama bin Laden Most Wanted poster makes no reference to the events of September 11, 2001, even though the bin Laden poster was updated in Novemeber 2001; two months after 9/11 and after the Bush Administration invaded Afghanistan to “smoke him out of his cave”. So it isn’t surprising that Eggen lacked the investigative curiosity and basic wherewithal to ask Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty, who Eggen quotes in his October 12th article about Gadahn, how it is that the videotapes of Azzam al-Amriki or “Azzam the American” were sufficient evidence to gain an indictment by a federal grand jury on the charge of treason, yet the “confession video” that the U.S. government touted as unequivocal evidence of Osama bin Laden’s role in 9/11 has yet to produce an indictment of Osama bin Laden in connection with the 9/11 attacks.

In case you’re not aware of this fact yet, Osama bin Laden has not been indicted for his alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

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