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What made Adam Gadahn convert in such a magnitude?
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Submitted by Ynnatchkah (United States), Sep 9, 2008 at 14:21
Can anybody provide me a reliable link where it is said about the biography of Gadahn and why he converted to this.... in such a magnitude?
In understand him leaving I guess judaism or any other religion, but to go to this...
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