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A US-born spokesman for al-Qaeda has been arrested in Karachi, Pakistani security officials have said.
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Adam Gadahn has appeared in a number of al-Qaeda videos, going back at least six years, encouraging violent jihad.
The latest emerged on Sunday - the same day as his arrest was reported - urging US Muslims to attack their own country.
He was charged with treason in the US in 2006 and a reward offered for his arrest - which has not yet been confirmed by Islamabad or Washington.
He was the first American charged with treason in more than 50 years.
Described by analysts as one of the best-known faces of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden, Adam Gadahn has appeared frequently on videos encouraging attacks on Western targets.
His most recent was a 25-minute speech praising Muslim US army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is charged with killing 13 people on an army base at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
He was also on a video released one year after the London transport bombings of 7 July 2005 in which one of the bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, appeared.
Adam Gadahn converted to Islam as a teenager in California and moved to Pakistan in 1998, according to the FBI. He is believed to have attended an al-Qaeda training camp six years later.
His reported capture will be seen as another victory for Pakistani security forces, says the BBC's Madeleine Morris, who have also arrested several high-profile Afghan Taliban leaders in recent weeks.
Finally Al-Qaeda operatives are getting hunted down, and this is going to slightly weaken the movement, which is a positive step that would put some pressure on this cancer to stop spreading.
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