"Inspire" The Magazine for Would-Be Jihadists

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Would you like to know how to make a bomb, or how to sacrifice yourself in the name of Allah? Would you like this info in a glossy color format? Ask no more! Now you can get your very own "Inspire" magazine! With real words from Osama bin Laden!

Check out our website!

http://inspiremag.org/


I wonder how long it will be before the creators of this magazine/website are found... one week? Two, tops? Pretty ballsy AQ. Pretty damn lame too. If you need "branding" like this to get people to join your cause, the movement can't be in that good a shape. :lol

Edit: Fixed the link.

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The website (not the link) takes you to a magazine with, among others, Angela Basset, Morris Chestnut, and Dr. Cornell West on the covers.

[Wild Cobra]

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Fixed:

Inspire magazine (http://inspiremag.org/)

But at face value, it doesn't look like the OP advertisement.

[LnGrrrR]

There's a review of the article that we received from a USN CDR, but it's FOUO. Going to try to look for a similar review suitable for posting.

[Wild Cobra]

Worth looking at:

Wiki: Inspire magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire_%28magazine%29)


While the SITE Institute and at least one senior U.S. government official have described Inspire as authentic, there has been some speculation on jihadist websites and elsewhere that the magazine, due to its low quality, may have been a hoax. This view has been advocated, in particular, by Max Fisher, a writer for The Atlantic. Fisher, listed five reasons to suspect the publication is a hoax. According to Fisher the portable document format file that contained the first issue also contained a computer virus. Fisher noted that the magazine contained an article by Abu Mu'sab al-Suri, noting that al-Suri had been in Guantanamo since 2005, and that whether he was actually tied to al Qaeda remained unclear.

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Thanks for the fix WC.

[LnGrrrR]

The website (not the link) takes you to a magazine with, among others, Angela Basset, Morris Chestnut, and Dr. Cornell West on the covers.

Here's a link with some info on it:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/06/al-qaedas-first-english-language-magazine-is-here/59006/

[LnGrrrR]

Worth looking at:

Wiki: Inspire magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire_%28magazine%29)

If it's a hoax, who are they trying to fool? I doubt anyone would go to such limits to produce an online magazine with various bits of information if they weren't actually trying to get one or two people to believe in their cause.

As I said above, I can't share the analysis because it's FOUO, but CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein is the author of it. He's written books on Military Islamic Ideology, and is well-versed in the subject; if it were a hoax I would think he, of anyone, would know. *shrug*

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If it's a hoax, who are they trying to fool? I doubt anyone would go to such limits to produce an online magazine with various bits of information if they weren't actually trying to get one or two people to believe in their cause.

As I said above, I can't share the analysis because it's FOUO, but CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein is the author of it. He's written books on Military Islamic Ideology, and is well-versed in the subject; if it were a hoax I would think he, of anyone, would know. *shrug*
I'll share this one. It could be a US intelligence effort to find those who subscribe to the magazine, then respond to certain ads.

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I'll share this one. It could be a US intelligence effort to find those who subscribe to the magazine, then respond to certain ads.

Perhaps. Hard to say. If it IS put forth by Al Qaeda, I'd say it's certainly an interesting strategy. I'm unsure if it speaks to desperation/urgency or not.

Edit: That same person, Max Fisher, doubts it's put out there by counter-intel as well. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Finter national%2Farchive%2F2010%2F07%2F5-reasons-to-doubt-al-qaeda-magazines-authenticity%2F59035%2F&date=2010-07-02



There are also reasons to doubt that the report was produced by U.S. counterintelligence, as CI officials would likely know enough to edit out these red flags. It's unclear who that leaves, but the most likely culprit could simply be mischievous, if knowledgeable, pranksters in the U.S. who wanted to disseminate a trojan virus among jihadi forum visitors. That would also explain why the document was written in English.