Monday, November 21, 2011

Inspire Magazine Still "Inspires" Radicals Across The Globe

Inspire Magazine: Who Was Behind It? -- BBC

A 27--year-old New Yorker, arrrested on suspicion of planning a bombing campaign on US soil, was believed to have been influenced by an al-Qaeda magazine called Inspire, say police. So who was behind this publication?

Anwar al-Awlaki may be dead but the arrest of Jose Pimentel shows the influence of one of the most dangerous figures in al-Qaeda has extended even beyond the grave, particularly though Inspire magazine, the "glossy" online publication which served to radicalise and operationalise lone-wolf terrorists.

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Update: It’s too easy for wanna-be terrorists to use Google, YouTube for promotion of their extremist causes -- New York Daily News

My Comment: We are in the battle of ideas .... but it is only now that Western intelligence agencies are countering Al Qaeda's message. See here, here , and here.

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