Al Qaeda Member From O.C. May Be Dead

An American propagandist for Al Qaeda who was raised in Orange County may have been killed along the Afghan-Pakistani border in an air strike by an unmanned U.S. Predator aircraft, according to intelligence experts quoted by a British newspaper.

Gadahn has been credited with helping transform Al Qaeda's propaganda wing into a slick operation able to communicate in fluent English and produce professional quality DVDs, including one for Osama bin Laden last year.

He may have been killed by a predator assassination, which have targeted and killed many of the terrorist group's military commanders, trainers and facilitators in the past year, according to London's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
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