Nothing To Look At Here

A brief note on Labor Day: Yesterday, and without any followup, the Post buried on A22 an AP brief on that startling al Qaeda video by Adam Yahiye Gadahn. The video calls out by name Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, and Steven Emerson. It gives a high-five to jihad apologist George Galloway and journalists Seymour Hersh and Robert Fisk. Here's the bland result in its entirety under the headline American Man Appears on Tape With Zawahiri:

CAIRO, Sept. 2 -- An American thought to be an al-Qaeda activist appeared in a videotape with the network's deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam.

The 48-minute video, posted on an Islamic insurgent Web site, contained footage of al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and of Adam Yahiye Gadahn, an American who the FBI believes attended al-Qaeda training camps in Pakistan and served as an al-Qaeda translator.

In the video, Gadahn urged U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars and delivered a lecture on Islam and the "errors" in Christianity and Judaism.

It was the second time Gadahn had appeared in a video with al-Zawahiri, who gave only a brief introduction to the video that also called on Americans to convert to Islam.

Laura Mansfield has a transcript, as well as the tape. It's an "invitation" if you know what I mean, for the West to convert.

I doubt even one of a hundred Post readers know there was any coverage of the video at all, never mind conveying what it means.