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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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 Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject: Tokyo Rose, Seoul Sally and Azzam the American |
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American appears in al-Qaida videotape
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American appears in al-Qaida videotape By LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writer
Sat Sep 2, 7:22 PM ET
CAIRO, Egypt - An American thought to be an al-Qaida activist appeared in a videotape with the terror group's deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars.
The 48-minute video, posted on an Islamic militant Web site, had footage of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, and of Adam Yehiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old American who the FBI believes attended al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan and served as an al-Qaida translator.
It was the second time Gadahn appeared in the same video with al-Zawahri. In a July 7 video marking the one-year anniversary of the terror attack on London commuters, Gadahn appeared briefly, saying no Muslim should "shed tears" for Westerners killed by al-Qaida attacks.
But Saturday's video � and the length of Gadahn's speech � suggested al-Qaida has found in him someone who can directly address the American people in idiom they are familiar with.
Appearing days before the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S., Gadahn spoke for nearly the entire video, wearing a white robe and a white turban, sitting in front of a desk with a computer and Islamic religious books in a room with a white wall.
The video included no direct threats of terror attacks.
Gadahn delivered a lecture on Islam and the "errors" in Christianity and Judaism. He also said the United States is losing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and told U.S. soldiers they are fighting President Bush's "crusades."
"Instead of killing yourself for Bush ... why not surrender to the truth (of Islam), escape from the unbelieving army and join the winning side. Time is running out so make the right choice before it's too late," he said. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060903/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_video
Mod Edit: Shortened article and added link. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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A 28-year-old American dude(???!!) is the sultry, seductive voice of Islam?
That is seriously farked up. (where's the barfing emoticon?)
By the way, who was "Seoul Sally"? |
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Neil
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| By the way, who was "Seoul Sally"? |
She was nicknamed Seoul Sue by GIs and gave out North Korean propergander during the Korean war.
It's relevant to this Gadahn as it turned out she was an American called Anna Wallace Suhr. I think she claimed that she was forced to do it by her Korean husband. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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TIME Magazine
Seoul City Sue
Posted Monday, Aug. 21, 1950
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In a command post above the Naktong River one night last week, infantrymen of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division fiddled with a radio. They picked up a North Korean station and got the brassy blare of a Sousa march. It was followed by the honeyed words (in English) of a woman announcer, urging the boys to "go back home to your corner drugstores" and boasting of fantastic North Korean successes ("already there are 6,000 U.S. dead").
"Seoul City Sue," successor to Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose,* was on the air.
Sue pronounces her r's better than most East Asians, but her voice, unlike California-born Tokyo Rose's, is "strictly un-American." One U.S. officer thought she sounded like a Korean who might have lived in England. And she was nowhere near so effective as either Sally or Rose. A veteran master sergeant complained: "Hell, Tokyo Rose used to entertain you. This babe's just a bore. Now if she'd only play some Benny Goodman or something like that, she'd get some listeners."
*Who is now serving a ten-year sentence for treason; Axis Sally is serving ten to 30 years. |
Interesting. I guess the final footnote there means Tokyo Rose got 10 years, Axis Sally got 30. (yeah, things changed, but that's what was thought at the time, 1950)
So what happened to this former American missionary schoolteacher- turned-Norky-propagandist after the war? It seems she may have been forced to do it, but screw that. I want to believe she was a willing turncoat. S'more fun that way.
And judging from this Nork propaganda leaflet, forget the radio biatch, what they really needed was a copyeditor!
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YOUR FOLKS AT HOME NEED YOU
Your dear mother is filling with tears in her eyes. Your pretty and young wife is going to crazy, for she can't stand any longer. Your children are crying and asking where their daddy is now. American officers and soldiers; Do you like to leave your mother, wife and children for the cannon fodders of Truman and MacArthur? Just cease fighting and come over to our line. We guarantee you safe conduct, warm clothes, good food <--HA!! and medical care if you injure, and in the end you'll get home. |
And this one, preying on everyone's fear of invalid chairs. Invalid chairs.
(leaflet shows a picture of a soldier in a wheel-chair)
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Hello, sucker. Do you remember this? It used to appear in American magazines. It is a cruel picture of the bitter truth. Here was a man who was cheated into fighting by those who promote war for their own selfish interests. And behold his reward. Now they have got YOU in it with their 'Help the South Koreans' lie and their hysterical Red scare. GET WISE TO YOURSELF! Don't be a sucker! Don't end your life in the Korean graveyard or in an invalid chair. Save yourself and help to end this war. LEAVE KOREA TO THE KOREANS! Come over to us! This is your only sure road to get away from this dirty war, from death and invalid chairs. It is your road home - get back all in one piece. We guarantee you safe conduct and good treatment.
The Chinese People's Volunteer Forces |
At the foot is another picture: "See how your buddies are doing here in a POW Camp". |
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