article_snippet.sent: (CNN)He was known as the American mouthpiece of al Qaeda, speaking against Saudi Arabia on behalf of a terrorist organization that's devoted blood and resources to attacking it.
article_snippet.sent: Warren Weinstein, a U.S. citizen who was abducted by al Qaeda in Pakistan in 2011, died along with another hostage, Italian Giovanni Lo Porto, in the attack that killed Farouq, according to The White House.
article_snippet.sent: al Qaeda's was among the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists.
article_snippet.sent: In 2007, al Qaeda's appeared on another al Qaeda's video in which al Qaeda's warned America to end America involvement in the affairs of predominantly Muslim countries.
article_snippet.sent: Your failure to heed our demands ... means that you and your people will ... experience things which will make you forget about the horrors of September 11, Afghanistan and Iraq and Virginia Tech," al Qaeda's said, the last reference being to the mass shooting at the Virginia university in 2007.
article_snippet.sent: In separate videos over the years, al Qaeda's criticized President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, whom al Qaeda's called "a devious, evasive and serpentine American president with a Muslim name.
article_snippet.sent: al Qaeda's also addressed al Qaeda's Jewish ancestry and tore up al Qaeda's U.S. passport on camera.
article_snippet.sent: In other videos, Gadahn called Nidal Hasan, the Army officer sentenced to death in the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, "the ideal role model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes," and praised the 2012 killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya.
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Steve Almasy contributed to this report.