Even the (Jewish-run) mainstream
media now admits that ‘Adam Ghadan’ — an ‘Al-Qaeda’ spokesman known for making
absurd calls-to-arms against ‘infidels’ and ‘Zio-Crusaders’ — is, in fact, the
grandson of a prominent board member of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League:
The Los Angeles Times: ‘Gadahn’s grandfather was Dr. Carl K. Pearlman, a
well-known Orange County urologist who died in 1998.’
Haaretz: ‘Gadahn’s grandfather was
well-known urologist Carl Pearlman, an active member of the Jewish community in
Orange County California.’
The
Orange County Register (2006): Carl Pearlman’s activism included ‘serving as the
first local chairman of the Bonds for Israel campaign and then as chairman
of the United Jewish Welfare Fund. He was on the board of the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)…’
For the
complete text of these articles (along with one from CNN that neglects to
mention the name ‘Pearlman’ once), READ MORE.
American
Al-Qaeda member Adam Gadahn tells of Jewish roots in video
The Los Angeles Times
June 14, 2009
The Los Angeles Times
June 14, 2009
Adam
Gadahn, a Southern California-raised man self-described as American
Al-Qaeda has released a new video in which he talks about his Jewish
ancestry.
Gadahn,
known as “Azzam the American”, lived in Garden Grove in the 1990s after growing
up on a goat farm in rural Riverside County. The FBI said he converted to Islam
as a youth, left the United States around 1998 and later was associated with
senior Al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Zubaida in Pakistan and attended training camps
in Afghanistan.
In the new
video, obtained by CNN, Gadahn talks about his background. “Let me here
tell you something about myself and my biography, in which there is a benefit
and a lesson,” Gadahn said. “Your speaker has Jews in his ancestry, the last
of whom was his grandfather.”
Gadahn’s
grandfather was Dr. Carl K. Pearlman, a well-known Orange County urologist who
died in 1998. Pearlman, who was Jewish, received a community-service award in
1985 from the Orange County chapter of the National Conference of Christians
and Jews, which has since changed its name to the National Conference for
Community and Justice, for his work in the expansion of St. Joseph Hospital in
Orange.
In the
video, Gadahn refers to his grandfather, saying he was “a zealous supporter
of the usurper entity, and a prominent member of a number of Zionist
hate organizations. … He used to repeat to me what he claimed are the
virtues of this entity and encouraged me to visit it, specifically the city
of Tel Aviv, where relatives of ours live,” he said.
The above
article can be found at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/american-al-qaeda-adam-gadahn-talks-about-jewish-southern-california-roots-in-new-video.html
Also:
Also:
American
Al-Qaida member acknowledges his Jewish roots
Haaretz (Israel)
June 14, 2009
Haaretz (Israel)
June 14, 2009
An American
Al-Qaida member has for the first time acknowledged his Jewish ancestry,
in an official video message released over the weekend by the international
terrorist network.
Adam
Yahiye Gadahn — who also goes by the name Azzam the American — declared his
roots in a video which surfaced on Saturday, using the opportunity to urge
Muslims to use “our weapons, funds and Jihad against the Jews and their allies
everywhere.”
“Let me
here tell you something about myself and my biography, in which there is a
benefit and a lesson,” Gadahn says in the video, speaking in Arabic with
English subtitles. “Your speaker has Jews in his ancestry, the last of whom
was his grandfather.”
Gadahn,
30, was raised in rural California and converted to Islam in the mid-1990s,
when he moved to Pakistan and joined Al-Qaida. In 2006, the United States has
charged him with treason and with providing material support to Al-Qaida. The
FBI has placed him on its most wanted list and is offering a $1 million reward
for his capture.
In the
video, Gadahn describes his grandfather as a “Zionist” and “zealous supporter
of the usurper entity, and a prominent member of a number of Zionist hate
organizations… He used to repeat to me what he claimed are the virtues of this
entity and encouraged me to visit [Israel], specifically the city of Tel Aviv,
where relatives of ours live.”
Gadahn’s
grandfather was well-known urologist Carl Pearlman, an active member of the
Jewish community in Orange County California.
Gadahn
says that despite his grandfather’s attempt to impart the ideology, he could
never embrace “the Jews’ rape of Muslim Palestine.”
How can a
person with an ounce of self-respect possibly stand in the ranks of criminals
and killers who have no morals, no mercy, no humanity and indeed, no honor?”
Gadahn says of Zionism. “Isn’t it shameful enough for a person to carry the
citizenship of America, the symbol of oppression and tyranny and advocate of
terror in the world?”
Although Gadahn’s
Jewish roots have been reported before in the media, terrorism analyst
Laura Mansfield told CNN that this was the first official acknowledgement.
According to Mansfield, the video was probably taped in spring, prior to U.S.
President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world in Cairo
The above
article can be found at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092707.html
Here’s another article on the same subject by CNN, which, while neglecting to mention the name ‘Pearlman’ once, provides what now unfortunately passes for ‘analysis’:
Here’s another article on the same subject by CNN, which, while neglecting to mention the name ‘Pearlman’ once, provides what now unfortunately passes for ‘analysis’:
American
al-Qaeda member acknowledges Jewish ancestry
CNN
June 13, 2009
CNN
June 13, 2009
In a new
anti-Israel, anti-U.S. video, an American al Qaeda member makes reference to
his Jewish ancestry for the first time in an official al-Qaeda
message.
In the
video, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, discusses his
roots as he castigates U.S. policies and deplores Israel’s offensive in Gaza
that started in late December 2008 and continued into January. [This is an
obvious device aimed at associating sympathy for the besieged Palestinians with
the evil ‘Al-Qaeda,’ perpetrators of the heinous 9/11 attacks, in the bemused
mind of the average American — 800]
“Let me
here tell you something about myself and my biography, in which there is a
benefit and a lesson,” Gadahn says, as he elicits support from his fellow
Muslims for “our weapons, funds and Jihad against the Jews and their allies
everywhere.”
“Your
speaker has Jews in his ancestry, the last of whom was his grandfather,” he
says.
Growing
up in rural California, Gadahn embraced Islam in the mid-1990s, moved to
Pakistan and has appeared in al Qaeda videos before.
He was
indicted in the United States in 2006 on charges of treason and material
support to al-Qaeda, according to the FBI. Gadahn is on the FBI’s Most Wanted
List, with a reward of up to $1 million leading to his capture. FBI records
show Gadahn’s date of birth as September 1, 1978.
The video
— in which Gadahn speaks Arabic, with English subtitles — surfaced on Saturday.
This account is based on an English transcript provided by As-Sahab Media,
the media production company used by al Qaeda.
Gadahn’s
Jewish ancestry has been reported in the news media. But terrorism analyst
Laura Mansfield says it is the first time Gadahn acknowledged his Jewish
ancestry in an official al Qaeda message.
Gadahn
says his grandfather was a “Zionist” and “a zealous supporter of the
usurper entity, and a prominent member of a number of Zionist hate
organizations.”
“He used
to repeat to me what he claimed are the virtues of this entity and encouraged
me to visit it, specifically the city of Tel Aviv, where relatives of ours
live,” says Gadahn, referring to Israel.
He says
his grandfather gave him a book by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
called “A Place Among the Nations” — in which the “rabid Zionist” sets out
“feeble arguments and unmasked lies to justify the Jews’ rape of Muslim
Palestine.”
But
Gadahn says that despite his youth at the time, he didn’t heed his
grandfather’s words.
“How can
a person with an ounce of self-respect possibly stand in the ranks of criminals
and killers who have no morals, no mercy, no humanity and indeed, no honor?” he
says in reference to Zionists and Israel.
“Isn’t it
shameful enough for a person to carry the citizenship of America, the symbol of
oppression and tyranny and advocate of terror in the world?”
Mansfield
thinks the video may have been made between late April and mid-May, before
President Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt, addressing U.S. relations with
Muslims.
Gadahn
notes Obama’s inauguration, Netanyahu’s election in February, and Obama’s speech
in Turkey in April.
Specifically
mentioning the Gaza offensive and citing other hot spots such as Iraq,
Afghanistan, Chechnya and Somalia, where the “Zio-Crusader alliance” is
fighting his “brothers,” he says “this open-faced aggression” comes as Obama
has risen to power. [By stressing the notion of a ‘Zio-Crusader alliance,’
Gadahn — in actuality a Mossad operative — is simply trying to make Al-Qaeda
appear as a common enemy to both Christians and Jews, thus cementing the unholy
alliance between badly misled ‘Christian Zionists’ and Israel — 800]
He scorns
Obama’s statements in his inaugural address and in Turkey that America isn’t
and won’t be at war with Islam, and “other deceptive, false and sugarcoated
words of endearment and respect.” He says Obama’s language is similar to words
Netanyahu uttered in the Knesset in 1996.
Gadahn
also backs the idea of targeting “Zio-Crusader” interests anywhere in the
world, not just “within Palestine.”
The above
article can be found at: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/13/american.qaeda.message/
Finally, note this September 2006 article from the Orange County Register — the first of three parts — which explicitly states that Dr. Carl K. Pearlman was not only ‘active in the Jewish community,’ but a card-carrying board member of the Jewish ADL:
Finally, note this September 2006 article from the Orange County Register — the first of three parts — which explicitly states that Dr. Carl K. Pearlman was not only ‘active in the Jewish community,’ but a card-carrying board member of the Jewish ADL:
Radical
conversion
The Orange County Register
September 24, 2006
The Orange County Register
September 24, 2006
SANTA ANA
— When Dr. Donald Martin took over as chief of the urology department at Orange
County General Hospital in 1969, he felt lucky.
He
inherited the job from Dr. Carl K. Pearlman, then 60, a highly
respected doctor who was gracious and generous to a young man of 39.
Martin
came to know Pearlman as a good doctor, a social activist, and a mentor
to many young men training in medicine. So he wasn’t surprised in the mid-1990s
when Pearlman told him he was taking in his grandson.
“Carl was
very sweet,” Martin recalled. “He said, ‘He’s having some problems, so I’ll
take him under my roof, under my wing.'”
Pearlman
died in 1998, and Martin didn’t think about his friend’s confidence until six
years later.
That’s
when, in May 2004, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that
Pearlman’s grandson, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, was part of a group of Islamic
fundamentalists being sought by the FBI for questioning because of ties to
al-Qaida. Gadahn was “armed and dangerous,” the FBI said.
Martin
was astonished to learn that a young man related to Pearlman, a Jew who won a
humanitarian award for promoting peace among religions, could be part of one of
the fiercest anti-Semitic terror organizations in the world. A family known for
its love of social tolerance, education and the arts suddenly had to answer for
violence-spewing videos featuring Gadahn, now known as “Azzam the American,” an
angry and articulate voice calling for the streets of his own country “to run red
with blood.”
“I often
think of how heartbroken he’d be,” Martin said of his old friend. “To have this
happen to him would have been very painful. It’s unbelievable.” The three
generations of Pearlmans — Carl Pearlman, his son, Phil, and grandson, Adam — were
intelligent men who lived their lives according to their deeply held
convictions. They loved music, were described as leaders, and all sought change
in the world.
But the
similarities end there. Because father to son, there was not only rebellion
against the elder, as might be expected, but an extreme reaction to birthright
and, ultimately, the rejection of traditional society.
Carl
Pearlman, a leading Orange County doctor who championed new medical
technologies, had a son who changed his name to Seth Gadahn and opted to live
off the land.
Seth
Gadahn’s son, Adam, home-schooled in the family’s wooden shack and raised in
rural isolation, moved away from his family as a teenager and settled into his
grandfather’s Santa Ana home, discovering the Internet and Islam. He converted
at a Garden Grove mosque in 1995 and fell in with a group of Islamic
fundamentalists.
Adam
Gadahn was described as a quiet and shy boy who came from a good family. Now
28, he’s ranting righteously as propaganda minister for Osama bin Laden.
Like many
life stories with such contrasts, Adam Gadahn’s is marked by a quest for
meaning and, at least in the beginning, hope.
Urban
pioneers
Carl
Pearlman, his wife, Agnes, and two small children arrived in Santa Ana in 1948
from the East Coast.
They were
urban pioneers in Orange County, then a sleepy agricultural area defined by its
fruit groves and pretty, pristine beaches. They took part in the activities
cherished by the millions who were moving to California — a life lived
outdoors, including swimming in a backyard pool, golf and bike riding.
But the
Pearlmans pushed this utopian new lifestyle further than most, and were bent on
improving the common good, whether through arts education, helping the poor or
promoting good health.
This
lifestyle extended from the Orange County coast to the California mountains.
From the early 1950s, the Pearlmans were some of the first board members of
what was then called the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, a summer
academy in a small, picturesque town in the San Jacinto Mountains. There, in
1957, the family built a cabin designed by John Lautner, an early disciple of
Frank Lloyd Wright’s and an important contemporary architect.
Lautner
believed that human spaces must intersect with nature, and is known for
landmarks from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. Now showcased as “the Pearlman
cabin” among Lautner’s body of work, it is “a cross between a log cabin and a
treehouse,” as one Lautner book says, a circular building that lies open to a
beautiful, panoramic view of snow-capped Tahquitz Peak.
Agnes
Pearlman was a fine pianist, and her baby grand piano commands a presence in
front of the huge windows, signifying the importance of music to the family.
Carl Pearlman played the violin, practicing daily until the age of 88. Their
children, Phil and his sister Nancy, took part in the programs at the Idyllwild
school, a 250-acre campus just down the road from the Pearlman cabin.
From the
start, the school attracted legendary artists. Ansel Adams taught photography
classes to kids and their parents from 1958 to 1960, and Meredith Willson was
guest composer in 1949, writing parts of “The Music Man” there. Pete Seeger,
guitar in hand, often led singalongs around the evening campfires after his
folk music classes from 1957 to 1963.
Agnes
Pearlman, now 83 and still living in the family’s modest Santa Ana home,
remains connected to the school, which has become the Idyllwild Arts Academy, a
private college-preparatory and prestigious year-round boarding school. Most
recently, she sent money to the school for its Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
A musical
background
The
passion for music was also reflected in Santa Ana, and Carl Pearlman was proud
to say that the Orange County Philharmonic Society was started in his living
room in the early 1950s. Nancy and Phil both graduated from Brickerward
Preparatory, a now-defunct Orange County school that stressed arts education.
The
Pearlmans held lively musical evenings for their friends, Carl on violin and
Agnes on piano, sitting on a platform in their large living room.
They
played classical music — Vivaldi, Schubert, Dvorak — but would finish with
Carl’s favorites, Rodgers and Hammerstein show tunes. Carl’s partner, Dr. J.
Bernard Miller, loved these evenings and said he always requested the song
“Mame” from the musical of the same name.
The
couple’s children inherited this love of music, a passion that seems coupled
with a sense of leadership. While attending UC Irvine in the mid-1960s, Phil
Pearlman brought the latest bands to campus, and friends thought he would
become a music promoter.
A guitar
player, Phil Pearlman started a psychedelic band called Beat of the Earth, and
its 1967 recording is a cult favorite often bootlegged by aficionados. Original
recordings command $400 to $500.
Reflected
in the third generation, Adam Gadahn had his own passion for music. It played
out in a rebellious teenage phase as a love for demonic heavy metal, and he
once wrote for a death-metal online magazine called Xenocide.
In a
separate essay he penned about becoming a Muslim, Adam Gadahn told of his brief
obsession with the genre, which he said “rightfully” alarmed his family.
Now, the
boy who grew up with his grandfather’s classical music and his father’s 1960s
sounds probably doesn’t listen to music at all.
Osama bin
Laden considers music “the flute of the devil” and covers his ears when he
hears it, according to “The Looming Tower,” a book about the al-Qaida leader by
Lawrence Wright.
A doctor
and duffer
Ever the
doctor, Carl Pearlman also loved golf and would practice it as diligently as
his daily violin, using a driving net in the back yard.
Warm and
funny, he loved to tell jokes while with patients, at presentations for
colleagues and when lecturing during 20 years of volunteer teaching at UC
Irvine.
“As
doctors, you’ll learn to deal with adversity, frustration, setbacks and even
catastrophe,” Pearlman told his students. “But enough about golf.”
Carl
Pearlman was a leader in the early medical associations and hospitals that
sprouted up around the county’s growing population in the 1950s and ’60s.
During his 50-year career, he was chief of staff at Orange County General
Hospital, chief of staff at Santa Ana Community Hospital (now Western Medical
Center) and chairman of the first expansion fund for St. Joseph Hospital.
“He had
an outstanding reputation when he was in practice,” said Dr. Frank Amato, a
former president of the Orange County Medical Association. “He was a good
physician.”
He was an
activist in the early medical community, opposed to hospitals operating for
profit and disgusted that the county facility was “nothing but a poor farm”
when he arrived in 1949. Carl Pearlman offered his services for free when the
parents of one of his patients, a 17-year-old Villa Park girl, couldn’t afford
a kidney transplant for their daughter in 1969.
Pearlman’s
friend, Dr. Donald Martin, was on the team of this historic local event, the
county’s first kidney transplant. Colleagues remember Pearlman as a champion of
new medical technologies and one of the few doctors who were not threatened
when the University of California system decided to create a teaching hospital
in Orange County in the late 1960s, Martin said.
Community
leader
Pearlman’s
activism included devoting time to the YMCA, serving as the first local
chairman of the Bonds for Israel campaign and then as chairman of the
United Jewish Welfare Fund.
He was on
the board of the Anti-Defamation League [!!!] and in 1985 was honored with a humanitarian award
by the Orange County chapter of the National Conference of Christians and
Jews, now called the National Conference for Community and Justice.
Pearlman’s
friends said he didn’t practice his religion by, say, belonging to a synagogue,
and Agnes Pearlman came from a Christian background.
Holidays
were social times, and Pearlman’s partner, Miller, remembers the Pearlmans’
annual Christmas party as one to look forward to every year. Their children
were raised to think freely about religion, and Nancy Pearlman has said they
were agnostics.
Although
Pearlman’s colleagues described him as “completely secular,” they also recalled
that he was a supporter of Israel, which was created just about the time the
Pearlmans moved to their home in Santa Ana’s Floral Park neighborhood.
“In our
conversations, he had a very strong feeling for Israel,” said Dr. Mel Singer, a
pediatric cardiologist in Orange. “He felt very sincerely and deeply that he wanted
that country to survive and make peace with the Arab nations around it.”
A grandson’s
conversion
By the
mid-1990s, about the time Pearlman took his grandson into his home, the doctor
was already joking about his death. He was adamant that he didn’t want a
service but that he wanted to be buried in Riverside National Cemetery, so the
family could wave at him as they drove to the cabin in Idyllwild.
He
probably knew of Adam Gadahn’s conversion to Islam, which occurred in 1995. But
it’s not known how the grandfather felt about Adam’s new beliefs. Family
members declined to comment for this story, although Nancy Pearlman
confirmed most details.
Adam
Gadahn had already taken one trip to Pakistan by the time of his grandfather’s
death on Oct. 18, 1998, at the age of 90. He returned to the United States and
was with the family when his grandfather died. Soon thereafter, he left for
Pakistan. It’s believed he has never returned to America.
On the
third anniversary of 9/11 in 2004, Adam Gadahn, his face partly covered in a
black scarf, warned America and Britain via video that it was time for “either
pragmatic surrender or a protracted, painful war.”
“We love
peace, but peace on our terms, peace laid down by Islam, not the so-called
peace of occupiers and dictators,” said Gadahn, punctuating his words with a
finger pointed at the camera and adding that the followers of Osama bin
Laden “love nothing better than the heat of battle, the echo of explosions and
slitting the throats of the infidels.” [Does anyone take this stuff seriously?
— 800]
Fiery
speech from the grandson of a man who left behind a legacy built on justice,
tolerance and helping the oppressed. In a little red notebook he always carried
with him, Pearlman also left behind some of his favorite sayings, quotes that
reinforced his beliefs. Among those is this one by Benjamin Franklin:
“There
never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Source
materialThe Orange County Register reported this story through source interviews, public records, historical archives and Internet sites. Any material previously published is attributed. Although Adam Yahiye Gadahn’s family declined interviews, his aunt, Nancy Pearlman, confirmed many details for this series.
Sources: Amanda Spake, Adam Ruelas, Dr. Donald Martin, Dr. J. Bernard Miller, Dr. Mel Singer, Dr. Frank Amato, Glen Pritzker, Haitham Bundakji, Harold Copus, Jon Konrath, Michael Rowe, Nancy Lund, Patrick Lundborg, Ryan Olson, Saraah Olson, Steven Rowe, Rita Katz.
Public records: California Department of Consumer Affairs, California secretary of state, Orange County criminal records, Riverside County criminal records, Los Angeles County criminal records, Los Angeles County voter registration, Orange County voter registration, Riverside County voter registration, Los Angeles County property records, Orange County property records, Riverside County property records, UC Irvine registrar
Historical archives: Idyllwild Arts Academy Museum, Idyllwild Town Crier, Orange County Medical Association, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Santa Ana Public Library, Orange County Register archives, UC Irvine special collections
Books: “Terrorist Hunter” by Anonymous (Rita Katz), “John Lautner,” by Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange, “The Architecture of John Lautner,” by Alan Hess and photographs by Alan Weintraub, “The Dream Endures” by Kevin Starr, “The Looming Tower,” by Lawrence Wright
The above
article, along with parts two and three, can be found at: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/article_1285930.php
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