So Al Qaeda Publishes Its Own Magazine In English?

[CJCRANE]

Apparently the world's number one terror organization publishes its own free (I assume) online magazine in English called "Inspire".

Does anyone else find that a little strange?

For me it brings to mind a few questions, especially in this heavily monitored world we live in nowadays...

Where is this magazine based, who writes for it, why is it allowed to continue and spread its propaganda?

[datasuspect]

1. there's no such thing as al qaeda

[Trajan]

2. yep ....

just a bunch of nice guys playing with guns ... and swords ... and bombs .... who happen to hate innocent people ...



btw ... I agree ... your data is suspect ...

[datasuspect]

6. you believe what you see on tv?

wow.

[Trajan]

15. Who said anything about TV?

Assume much?

There are real events, with real weapons, used by real people, where hundreds/thousands of real innocent people are killed ... women ... children ... the infirm ... all are victims of some group of people who adhere to an amoral philosophy that praises murder ...

I don't care what the FUCK you call it, or not call it ... that immoral cadre exists ... it is real .. and so is the suffering caused by them ...

Your word games are a bore ...

and ... you may count me out as a member of the datasuspect fan club ... from day one, I knew I would never join that club ...

[Recursion]

7. Well, only in the sense that there's no such thing as Occupy or Anonymous

It's a largely self-directed brand.

[geek tragedy]

3. Published on the internet, so it can be uploaded anywhere.

Its editor in chief was based in Yemen. Unfortunately for him, he decided to carpool with Anwar al awlaki.

[msanthrope]

9. Okay....I laughed. nt

[treestar]

4. wonder how many languages it appears in

It would be allowed to continue in all free countries. At least we would know something of what they are up to - or what they want us to think they are up to.

[Nevernose]

5. It's not hard to find online

It's production value isn't as good as most magazines, but on par with a good high school yearbook.

Also, it's totally batshit crazy.

[Recursion]

8. You should see the old stuff they used to put on Usenet

I remember reading it when I was in the Marines. Their guidebook on how to encrypt messages would have been quaint to Napoleon's intel officers.

[Dpm12]

10. I don't think that it is

illegal for them to rlease the magazines

[DesMoinesDem]

13. It may not be illegal, but Obama is going to murder you if you do!

And he doesn't care if you're an American citizen, so you can forget about that whole Constitution thing.

[Scurrilous]

18. @#$% Samir Khan.

Gawker: Here's the Jihadist Magazine That Taught the Boston Bombers to Kill

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"When it debuted in 2010, Inspire, al Qaeda's English-language magazine, drew mockery—from us and others—for its seemingly laughable mission to bring modern media packaging and splashy headlines to the world of primitive holy war. It turns out that, if initial reports about the confession of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are correct, it accomplished precisely what its proprietors hoped it would.

Wired's Spencer Ackerman called Inspire "a lifestyle rag for the conspiracy-minded takfiri, filling the inexplicably vacant media space between O: The Oprah Magazine, Popular Mechanics and the al-Qaida book Knights Under The Prophet’s Banner." But he also warned of Inspire's potential to, well, inspire violence:

(T)he apparent purpose of launching Inspire [is] getting frustrated Muslim youth to buy into al-Qaida’s holistic conspiracy theory that the crises of the modern era are attributable to a nefarious American-Jewish alliance against True Islam, and then giving them the tools to murder people.

The U.S. government was very explicit about its insistence that Inspire was dangerous, assassinating its editor and publisher, Samir Khan—an American citizen—in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen that also killed imam Anwar al-Awlaki.

Today, news broke that the sole surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzokhar Tsarnaev, has admitted to investigators that he and his brother Tamerlan learned to make pressure cooker bombs by reading Inspire, which ran a detailed feature about explosive-building in its debut issue under the headline "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom." Penned by someone calling himself The AQ Chef, the article's intro reads, in part: "If you are sincere in your intentions to serve the religion of Allah, then all what you have to do is enter your kitchen and make an explosive device that would damage the enemy if you put your trust in Allah and then use this explosive device properly."

http://gawker.com/heres-the-jihadist-magazine-that-taught-the-boston-bom-478605581

[DesMoinesDem]

20. Translation: Fuck the Constitution, I support government assassination without due process.

[dawg]

11. I wonder if it has ads for Sea Monkeys in the back.

And those crystals you can grow on the bottom of a fishbowl.

[Bucky]

12. Wikipedia has a good article on it. Some of it's kinda funny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire_(magazine)

Al-Shamika (The high, elevated ("feminine)&quot was a new fashion and lifestyle magazine for Muslim women and suicide bombers published online by Al-Qaeda.

I soooo wanna read this one

[Bucky]

14. Al-Shamika, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for Muslim women and suicide bombers

[HiPointDem]

16. yes, it's strange.

[Katashi_itto]

17. The magazines' pictorials like..."Bad Bomber Girls Of Al-Queda" are kinda hot

[HereSince1628]

19. Are you old enough to remember RAMPARTS magazine?

It was a magazine about the politics of civil disobedience...it was available at the hobby/tobacco shop in my home town. I remember an issue that gave instructions to home-made hand grenades,

Here is the wiki reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramparts_%28magazine%29