( CNN ) -- On a videotape released Sunday , American al Qaeda member Adam Yahiye Gadahn renounces his U.S. citizenship , destroys his passport and cites U.S. President Bush 's upcoming trip to the Middle East . `` American jihadist '' Adam Gadahn , originally from California , in a video released in September 2006 . The 50-minute tape -- titled `` An Invitation to Reflection and Repentance '' -- was released by As Sahab , al Qaeda 's video production wing and was provided to CNN by www.LauraMansfield.com , a Web site that analyzes terrorism . In it , Gadahn renounces his citizenship to protest the imprisonment of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman , a blind Egyptian Muslim leader serving a life sentence for his role in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center ; and John Walker Lindh , the American Taliban who was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 , and others . Gadahn displays his passport to the camera , rips it in half and says , `` Do n't get too excited -- I do n't need it to travel anyway . '' Though Gadahn speaks mostly in English , he references Bush -- who is to travel this week to the Middle East -- only in Arabic . `` We raise an urgent appeal to our mujahedin brothers in the Muslim Palestine , the Arabian Peninsula in particular , and the region in general , to be prepared to receive the crusader butcher Bush on his visit to Muslim Palestine and the occupied peninsula at the beginning of January , '' he said . `` They should receive him not with roses and applause , but with bombs and booby-traps . '' The video also refers to the Annapolis Conference , indicating it was produced after last November 27 , when the conference was held . National Security Council Spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the U.S. president would not be deterred . `` His comments are indicative of an al Qaeda ideology that offers nothing but death and violence , '' Johndroe told CNN in a written statement . `` President Bush will travel to the region to stand with the mainstream governments who want liberty and justice for their people . '' The self-proclaimed American jihadist , also known as Azzam the American , is on the FBI 's Most Wanted List , with a reward of up to $ 1 million for information leading to his capture . Gadahn was indicted in 2006 on charges of treason and offering material support for terrorism , the first American charged with treason since World War II . Gadahn , who grew up in rural California , embraced Islam in the mid-1990s and moved to Pakistan . Since October 2004 he has appeared in at least eight al Qaeda videos in which he speaks in English and praises the terrorist network . E-mail to a friend .
Adam Gadahn in videotape tears up U.S. passport , speaks in Arabic and English . Score: 6 Originally from California , Gadahn talks about Bush 's upcoming trip to Middle East . Gadahn is on the FBI 's Most Wanted List with $ 1 million reward for information .