The man who inspired the Fort Hood shooter, the Christmas Day attacker, and the Times Square bomber is launching an online magazine in English aimed at aspiring jihadists. Lloyd Grove on why it has American officials worried.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, known by the acronym AQAP at the CIA, is about to release its first English-language magazine. It’s a Web-based journal of propaganda aimed at inciting violent acts among would-be terrorists living in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and other Western countries.
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It’s apparently the project of New Mexico-born jihadist Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemen-based former imam who is said to have “inspired” three of the 9/11 hijackers; the perpetrator of the Fort Hood massacre, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan; the Christmas Day underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab; and the Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad. The 39-year-old Awlaki—dubbed “the bin Laden of the Internet”—is a prime target of U.S. counterterrorism operations.“The U.S. government is aware of this new propaganda vehicle by al Qaeda in Yemen and Anwar Awlaki,” a counterterrorism official told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “AQAP and Awlaki are clearly trying to incite terrorist activity overseas, and to recruit new extremists. The packaging of this magazine may be slick, but the contents are as vile as the authors.”
For real? Since when have ‘slick magazines’ recruited terrorists?
Since it appears they are making a call for people to go out and kill people including children then the NSA had better be checking who is reading this crap. On the other hand if you go check it out they will most likely be checking you out.
It they can’t arrest this fine young man for inciting murder I don’t actually care if he runs into a hellfire missile fired by a drone.
I believe in freedom of speech but when your speech includes making bombs and setting them off at the local court house, school, sporting event, or 7-11 then it’s time to do more than take down your web site. The web site can stay up for all I care but they need to take you down.
Definitely a CIA honeypot.
With respect to the media reporting, this is completely frustrating because one news story about an Al Qaeda magazine will potentially destroy the incredible goodwill a positive magazine such as ALO Hayati has accomplished over the past five years. The great achievement of ALO in this post 9-11 society, such as being in VIP airport lounges for American-based airlines is put into jeopardy with this ignorance. It sounds like a complete hoax to hoodwink the American media.