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
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- 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