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(IsraelNN.com) A videotape entitled "An Invitation to Reflection and Repentance" released Sunday, records Al Qaeda's Western representative Adam Yahiye Gadahn encouraging Muslims to murder US President George W. Bush during his Middle East tour, and shows the 29 year-old American renouncing his US citizenship and destroying his passport.

The convert to Islam, born Adam Pearlman, renounces his citizenship in protest of the imprisonment of convicted terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman and American Taliban member John Walker Lindh. The self-proclaimed American jihadist, also known as Azzam the American, is on the FBI's Most Wanted List, and was indicted in 2006 on charges of treason and offering material support for terrorism, the first American charged with treason since World War II.

In the tape, the English-speaking Gadahn says that the mujahedin Arabs "in Muslim Palestine" must be prepared to receive Bush "not with roses and applause, but with bombs and booby-traps."