LOS ANGELES (AP) - FBI agents have contacted the parents of a former Orange County resident in an effort to determine if he's the English-speaking person on a new videotape threatening a terror attack.
The shrouded man claiming to be an American member of al-Qaida is promising attacks that will make US streets "run red with blood."
Excerpts of the video were aired tonight by ABC News.
Investigators are trying to determine if the speaker is 26-year-old Adam Yahiye Gadahn, who was identified by the FBI as a suspected al-Qaida member in May.
Gadahn's aunt Nancy Pearlman says FBI agents have asked relatives of the Muslim convert to listen to the tape to determine if they can identify the voice.
In the 75-minute message, the speaker who identifies himself as "Azzam the American" praises the September eleventh attacks, calls Osama bin Laden and his deputy his leaders, and says a new wave of attacks could come at any moment.
ABC News says it obtained the video in Pakistan from a source known to have Taliban and al-Qaida connections.
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