Latest issue of al Qaeda magazine Inspire celebrates Boston bombings

Latest issue of al Qaeda magazine Inspire celebrates Boston bombings Posted
By John Hudson Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 11:02 AM Share
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Excerpts of the 11th issue of Inspire magazine, al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula's propaganda rag, has leaked to the web, and focus extensively on
the April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon.

According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors jihadi
web forums, the latest issue leaked when Yemeni journalist Abd al-Razzaq
Al-Jamal posted excerpts of the issue to his Facebook page. The images of
the issue were provded to The Cable by MEMRI.

The above image is a composite of the bloody scene of the Boston bombing and
an image of AQAP's military commander Qassem al-Rimi. It reads:

O American people, your security will not be attained by denying
security to other peoples, attacking them or oppressing them. Your security
is in the hands of the fools among you who rule you with oppression and
aggression. Know that oppression and aggression come back upon the heads of
those who use them...

According to MEMRI, "Al-Rimi also threatens the American people that the
Boston bombings, the poisoned letters sent to the White House and two U.S.
senators, and other events - regardless of who is behind them - 'prove that
your security has lapsed and that the attacks against you are taking a
course that nobody can control... [So] save yourselves if you care for your
own skin.'"

Unusually, the issue still appears in Arabic. As readers know, the notoriety
of Inspire, once dubbed the "Vanity Fair of terrorism" is largely due to its
wide availability in English. The online magazine gained new prominence
after the Boston bombings when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that he
and his brother Tamerlan read the periodical's instructions on building
bombs prior to the attack, according to law enforcement officials speaking
to NBC News. On two separate occasions, the magazine published articles on
bomb building using kitchen pressure cookers, the type of weapon used in the
attack.

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