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remember "make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom"? that was from al qaeda's weird glossy broken english propaganda magazine called "inspire." that was the same issue of where they had that weird article about how to turn a pickup truck into a big death tractor. al qaeda has used inspire magazine to put out wanted posters of people they want to kill around the world. they do bomb recipes, inspiring end of the world sermons. al qaeda has done 13 issues of their magazine "inspire." an american guy named adam gadan was thought to be a key player in producing the magazine for al qaeda, making sure it had international english language appeal. but president obama announced in april that adam gadahn was killed in a u.s. drone strike. since then there has not been another issue of inspire.
big death tractor. al qaeda has used inspire magazine to put out wanted posters of people they want to kill around the world. they do bomb recipes, inspiring end of the world sermons. al qaeda has done 13 issues of the magazine inspire. an american guy named adam gadan was thought to be a key player in producing the magazine for al qaeda, making sure it had international english language appeal. but president obama announced in april that he was killed in a u.s. drone strike. since then there has not been another issue of inspire. last one came out in december. now of course times are tichbt. in apocalyptic death cult terrorist circles al qaeda is oldle hat. the new up start is isis. if you want an understanding of the different appeal being made by isis versus al qaeda consider
posters of people they want to kill around the world. they do bomb recipes, inspiring end of the world sermons. al qaeda has done 13 issues of the magazine inspire. an american guy named adam gadan was thought to be a key player in producing the magazine for al qaeda, making sure it had international english language appeal. but president obama announced in april that he was killed in a u.s. drone strike. since then there has not been another issue of inspire. last one came out in december. now of course times are tichbt. in apocalyptic death cult terrorist circles al qaeda is oldle hat. the new up start is isis. if you want an understanding of the different appeal being made by isis versus al qaeda consider that al qaeda called its magazine "inspire." isis calls its magazine
shrapnel and dirt landed there. and the drone strikes were effective. and they talked about a famous foreign militant who taught them how to make bombs and he was killed in a drone strike. so it is a difficult process, but from what i saw, and just my personal experience they were largely effective. >> and david, that is what is interesting, people haven't been there in the region you can hear the drones buzzing -- flying overhead? >> yeah. they are like small propeller aircraft a piper or like a cessna circling overhead. and they knew that. they would order me inside of the house when there was a drone overhead and they assumed that the american government was hunting me and the american government wanted to kill me because they had this crazy ideas about what they could get for one american captive. they are constantly overhead. >> peter, what do we know and they mentioned farouk and adam
republicans, democrats, liberals and conservatives. everyone has input into how this is done. it is difficult, but it is in my judgment after watching this over the years, it is well-planned. it is well-executed. it is well-thought out. and there are excellent pros protocols in place before this is done. having said that when you're dealing with lethal force, things can go awry from time to time and it's a tragic situation again. that picture of the president of the united states when he had to talk about this tells it all. >> it certainly does. let's talk a little bit about adam ga dan. the american who converted to islam who became a mouthpiece as all of us know. we just saw the report of al qaeda. he now is gone. how do the u.s. officials, based on what you know confirm that
place. and that operation resulted in the death of al-qaeda fighters and leaders inside of the compound. >> would it have been illegal to intentionally target those two men? >> there is a separate procedure for specifically targeting americans and this protocol was followed in the target against him. if not adam gadan and a chmed who was being targeted? >> what was targeted the and that is assessed with near certainty. and al-qaeda fighters and in
from his most recent video, august 2013 praising the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi the year before. he had a video in 2011. he had videos where he was telling americans to go out and buy weapons at gun fests to go and attack people. he praised the ft. hood shooter, major hasan nadal, for what he had done. praised him and said he should be a role model for other muslims in the united states. so this was a imagine who was agitating and trying to provoke as much as he could attacks. but because al qaeda leaders were also being killed and because he kind of got in on ground floor, he was rising up through their ranks. he had disappeared, perhaps, from some of the attention it had maybe five or six years ago. still an important figure for them. >> no question. on any other day, adam gadahn's death would come as a surprise.
the last proof of life video we saw was more than a year ago. he was held with an italian national giovanni lo porto. both were dedicated to helping the people of pakistan. but president obama said little about the two others killed in those counterterrorism missions, other americans. but these u.s. citizens were part of al qaeda, sworn and loyal members of the terrorist group. one of them an influential mouthpiece for the militants. but incredibly their deaths were also an unintended consequence, killed in two separate terror strikes that were not targeting them. in a 39-minute video, american-born al qaeda spokesman adam gadan is calling for attacks on u.s. ambassadors around the world. when he was killed in this u.s. drone strike, the bounty on his head was $1 million. but how significant a role did he play in the al qaeda network? to tell us more about this american terrorist, i'm joined by nick robertson, cnn's senior international correspondent. great to have you on. i just want to ask you first
debate exactly on how do you get a target how is that decision made and why are we seeing so many of these drone strikes still being carried out? >> yeah it's -- in both these cases, you have two drone strikes. one that killed the two hostages plus the al qaeda leader. a separate strike that killed adam gadahn a few days later. when you look at these cases -- and i believe our pam brown is joining us now as well. pam, are you there? >> i'm here with you, jim. >> here's a real issue. you have the american and the italian hostage who were killed. this is a horrible mistake. you have two american members of al qaeda. but there's a very severe legal process that the u.s. government did not go through on them which would have been required if you're killing americans, summary execution, in effect. they say they didn't know they were in those buildings. how complicated is that process? and how much of a problem is it
the trag tick >> although he was not the suspect in these. >> the thing about mr. gadon. he was indicted for trezon in 2006. he presented a danger. and the he was someone that the united states was going to find. >> would the president wanted to go for and said strike if he knew adam was there. >> it is hard to determine the hypothetical. he was not classified as an htc. but he was, obviously somebody wanted by the u.s. government because he was indicted for