Video Threatens Major Attack On U.S.

FoxNews reports that U.S. intelligence agencies are analyzing a videotape that threatens an assault on the United States that would "dwarf" the Sept. 11 attacks:

The tape was handed to the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency by ABC News two days ago, multiple government sources said. ABC is said to have received the tape last weekend from a terrorist source in Waziristan, a region in Pakistan near the Afghan border where the Taliban and Al Qaeda (search) are believed to be holed up.

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The speaker on the video is disguised but speaks "alarmingly" fluent English in an American accent, leading some U.S. officials to believe that the voice belongs to Adam Yahiye Gadahn. Gadahn, who also goes by the names Adam Pearlman and Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, is a 25-year-old Southern Californian fingered by the FBI for possible ties to Al Qaeda.

In May, the FBI announced that Gadahn had ties with senior Al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan, and that he had attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and served as a translator for the terror network.

"Adam Yahiye Gadahn is being sought in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States," the FBI said in an announcement in May. "Although the FBI has no information indicating this individual is connected to any specific terrorist activities, the FBI would like to locate and question this person. He should be considered armed and dangerous."

UPDATE: MSNBC reports that a senior intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told NBC News that “we can’t authenticate” the tape, a copy of which ABC gave the CIA on Monday. He would not elaborate, adding, “I think that is where we are going to stand:”

U.S. officials told NBC News that the tape included now-standard militant Islamist rhetoric promising widespread destruction inside the United States. The man cannot be identified, the officials said, because his face is covered by a headdress.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, described analysts’ concern as “low” because it was not clear that the tape was recorded recently and because the man on the tape, who spoke in what appeared to be an American accent, mentioned no details.

“It’s unclear what this tape is — even whether the person on the tape is an American,” one of the officials said.

Comments

[Sam Miller]

Where is Osama?

Why did Bush not catch him yet?

He had 3 years time.