Tonight, the good Doctor Reverend DJ Poolhouse confronts the final boss of the Terror Tape Trilogy: Adam Gadahn, aka Azzam the American, the star of one of two jihadist media clips that dropped on the eve of the 2004 election, on a day the media dubbed TERROR TAPE FRIDAY–and then promptly tried to erase their complicity in this dubious October Surprise from the record. How did a sweet Jewish boy from the OC become an internationally known terrorist? Adam Gadahn, Osama Bin Laden, Bush vs. Kerry, and the mystery of the disappearing October Surprise….tonight, on THE TERROR TAPE TRILOGY RADIO HOUR.
Notes & Sources:
Intel points to Californian on Terror Tape (CNN)
American Al-Qaeda Warns of Attacks (ABC)
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Investigation/story?id=1115448&page=1
Azzam the American (NY Mag)
Adam Gadahn and Al-Qaeda Internet Strategy (Middle East Policy, Fall 2009)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230325088_Adam_Gadahn_and_Al-Qaeda's_Internet_Strategy
Bush Wins Boost From Terror Tape
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/31/alqaida.uselections20041
Adam Gadahn: Becoming a Muslim
https://web.archive.org/web/20050207095656/http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/newmuslims/yahiye.html
Osama Bin Laden Terror Tape transcript
THE TERROR TAPE TRILOGY
ℑ𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔬 𝔪𝔲𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔞 𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔢 𝔭𝔬𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔱
(“the image may have been altered” - ancient backklash proverb)
drawing upon our anxieties and our dark fantasies of an ancient, far-off land, the "terror tape" is the basis for all coverage of the continuing clashes in the middle east.
the TERROR TAPE TRILOGY is a poolhousean rocket ride back to 2004, when the so-called 'War on Terror' began to rapidly unravel, and the first cracks in the post-9/11 rah-rah muh 'Murica Budweiser frog nationalist facade appeared, revealing a bloodthirsty "neoconservative" agenda powering American foreign policy under its hood.
20 years later, those same shadowy forces who drafted plans for an age of 'Pax Americana' are still toiling away, grinding at the gears of the world machine, so that limitless amounts of blood can continue to flow into soil of the Holy Land. and they've co-opted a 'bronze age' based Americana brand image in order to continue selling you their dark ambitions.
why are members of the e-right rehabilitating the image of people like Erik Prince in 2024?
what is the true nature of America's ambitions in these faraway lands? why do we continue to arm 'both sides?'
is Endless War the actual goal of the eschatopolitik foreign policy priesthood in Washington, DC, Brussells, and Tel Aviv?
Nick Berg. Abu Ghraib. Fallujah. Azzam the American. Terror tape Friday. we're going back to 2004 to learn something about the world which we inhabit today.
Chapters
(0:00) - Hezbollah! cold open
(3:21) - The Californio Way
(16:11) - Adam Gadahn
(37:15) - Terror Tape Friday
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