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As we reported earlier this year, it’s likely that American al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn is dead, or at the very least, seriously incapacitated.

Counterterrorism Blog has more.

This afternoon, Al-Qaida’s As-Sahab Media Foundation has released the second audio recording of Usama Bin Laden in the space of only three days–this time, openly addressed “to the Islamic nation.” But, perhaps what is most interesting about Bin Laden’s latest set of audio recordings is not what they contain–but rather, what they inexplicably lack: the English-language subtitles and matching transcript that have, until recently, been a customary feature of professional-quality As-Sahab videos.

An analysis of the history of As-Sahab recordings and their evolution over time would seem to indicate that the responsibility for creating these English-language products fell largely on the shoulders of one man alone: Adam Gadahn (a.k.a. “Azzam al-Amriki”), the California native who was recruited by Al-Qaida computer specialists living in Garden Grove in the late 1990s, and who later traveled on to Pakistan seeking to join his new hero Usama Bin Laden. Gadahn’s voice and, more recently, his face have been an integral part of As-Sahab releases since their first video production in 2001, “The Destruction of the U.S.S. Cole” (a.k.a. “State of the Ummah”). He has frequently appeared as a freely identified commentator in As-Sahab videos, with clips of him speaking in English juxtaposed amid footage of Usama Bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.