Subject: Adam Gadahn

• OC's Al-Qaeda Man Speaks Again

  Yep, Adam Gadahn has made another ranting tape. Note the new glasses, the leaner face, longer beard and continued flowery rhetoric. After that, read Nick Schou's excellent piece on Saraah Olson, who remembers Gadahn when he was nothing but a twerp. Interesting how some things never change, eh?

  May 29, 2007

• Good Journalism, Bad Judgment

  This comes via those fine folks at LA Observed. It's Cal State Fullerton journalism professor and former Orange County Register reporter Jeff Brody beginning by lauding the Los Angeles Times' investigative series last week about judges being bought and paid for in Las Vegas--and then damning the Times for venturing out of state for this likely editorial award winner when the paper could have rooted out similar corruption in its coverage area (Southern California). As another for instance, Brody

  June 12, 2006

• Monday's Headlines

  Under the influence: The Times runs a multi-faceted feature on the power drug manufacturers have in the prescription process. Not you again: Former Garden Grove resident and al-Qaida member Adam Gadahn made new video threats Sunday. Rats! Angel Stadium's got a rat infestation 13 times worse than Petco Park and Dodger Stadium combined, reports the Reg. New record for OC Fair: 1,069,052 were in attendance this time around, notes the Daily Pilot.

  August 6, 2007

• The Continuing Story of Goat Boy, the Pesky Terrorist

  If there's anything funny about the U.S. War on Terror and its hunt for al-Qaeda, it's the fact that nearly six years after 9/11, we still haven't been able to capture or kill Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a.k.a. Azzam the American, a.k.a. Goat Boy. At least that's what we've come to call Gadahn around the newsroom, ever since ABC reported in late 2004 that the masked al-Qaeda terrorist who'd appeared on videos that summer—in which he babbled about infidels and threatened America with a second 9/11—wa

  August 7, 2007

• Goat Boy Gone?

  NB_C News is reporting that Goat Boy, Orange County's favorite terrorist nutball, seems to have disappeared. Goat Boy would bed Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the former death-metal fan turned Muslim convert who grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County be fore moving to Garden Grove, where he became a radical M%uslim before heading to Pakistan in the late 1990s. He unveiled himse#lf in a 2004 videotape distributed by al-Qaeda as Azzam the American. Ever since, he has pestered the western world with dire

  February 14, 2008

• Dead Again!

  For the second time in a year, a terrified American public has received the reassuring news that Adam Gadahn, a.k.a. "Goat Boy," is dead. Probably. As far as we know. Seeing as how we haven't heard much from him lately and he likes to harangue his former countrymen with annoying lectures about U.S. imperialism and the merits of al-Qaeda's feudal interpretation of Islam. Yesterday, England's Daily Telegraph added a few more mysterious details to a story that first appeared earlier this year sug

  September 9, 2008

• Goat Boy: Not So Dead Edition

  With the global economy teetering on the brink of self-destruction, America still fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Pakistan, the LA Times about to fire the 75 people who somehow haven't been fired yet, and the Angels out of the race for the pennant, it's about time for a feel-good human interest story to raise our spirits, isn't it? Good news, folks: according to CNN, Adam Gadahn, the goat farm-bred, Orange County-raised American face of Al Qaeda is still alive and well, despite rumors

  October 7, 2008

• Man Claiming to be FBI Informant Spins Quite a Tale

  A location scout for a spy movie could not have picked a better location for my late December meeting with Craig Monteilh: a table outside a restaurant in a bustling Irvine shopping center. A lensman would appreciate the shadow-erasing clouds hovering overhead on the warm winter morning. And central casting could not have found a better leading man: Monteilh is tall, intense, talkative, with a shaved head and the kind of cut body one would expect from someone who is now a fitness instructor.

  February 26, 2009

• A Look at Craig Monteilh, Who Says He Spied on the Islamic Center of Irvine for the Feds

  March 5, 2009

• So I Married a Terrorist . . .

  Saraah Olsons strange trip through the U.S. war on terror

  April 19, 2007

• A Terrorist Tool?

  September 8, 2005

• Where Is OCs Missing Terrorist?

  June 15, 2006

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  September 15, 2005

• OC's Scariest People 2004

  October 28, 2004

• Terror-Fied

  July 8, 2004

• Hide & Go Deek

  June 17, 2004

• The FBI, the Islamic Center of Irvine and Craig Monteilh: Who Was Conning Whom?

  April 30, 2009

• Does Al Qaeda's Infamous Goat Boy Read the Weekly?

  In April, the Weekly published this story about Craig Monteilh, a self-described FBI mole who spied on Orange County mosques and claimed that he foiled unspecified terrorist plots. No evidence has ever surfaced to bolster Monteilh's claims, and in that story, I noted that only two OC residents have ever been linked to Al Qaeda, the most famous of whom is the terrorist group's American spokesman,  Adam Gadahn, aka "Azzam the American," whom I identified as a "Jewish-American."Gadahn grew up on a

  June 19, 2009

• Time for Boston To Give Us Their Crown as the Kings of Bigotry

  OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any day​Let the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.​For decades, critics rightfully deemed Boston as the country's most racist big city, and seriously: what do you expect from a town where micks and goombahs have long dominated politics, culture and d

  September 30, 2009

• Al Qaeda's Goat Boy: Back from the Dead and as Annoying as Ever

  Goat Boy: I'm Ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack!​ Apparently, your teabagging grandma isn't the only person who thinks the election of Barack Obama spells doom for America. In celebration of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, Al Qaeda has just released a video called "The West and the Dark Tunnel." In the video, Ayman al-Zawahri  predicts that the "Muslim nation" will bring down the Obama presidency, the AP reports today.Just how the "Muslim nation" will do that isn't clear. Is he talking about the Natio

  September 23, 2009