{"id":6450,"date":"2010-07-03T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T19:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2010-07-03T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T19:45:49","slug":"bomb-kitchen-mom-the-new-al-qaeda-meme-were-joking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/07\/03\/bomb-kitchen-mom-the-new-al-qaeda-meme-were-joking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb. Kitchen. Mom. The new al qaeda meme we’re joking about."},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I do not believe that the magazine “Inspire<\/a>” is real.\u00c2\u00a0 How can it be?\u00c2\u00a0 Nobody puts out an article entitled “How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” — do they?\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, there might be cultural differences I don’t understand regarding the pscyhotic.<\/p>\n

The magazine itself <\/em>has a hefty feature well<\/em><\/a>, reports The Atlantic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Marc Ambinder, consistent with what any ambitious editor would want to see in a roll-out issue. \u00c2\u00a0Osama bin Laden himself offers his thoughts on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How to Save the World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Blow stuff up when people disagree with you about what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Islamic! His deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, shares his insights on what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going down in Yemen.<\/em><\/p>\n

But the anchor is a message from Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born preacher who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become al-Qaida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest draw as an online propagandist. So much so that the Obama administration reserves unto itself <\/em>the right to kill Awlaki<\/em>, a U.S. citizen, without due process of law.<\/em><\/p>\n

And then there are some promising front-of-the-book experiments. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What to Expect in Jihad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is self-explanatory. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The AQ Chef\u00e2\u20ac\u009d gives you a step-by-step on how to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And that threads the needle for the apparent purpose of launching Inspire: getting frustrated Muslim youth to buy into al-Qaida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The twist is to get Muslims living in America and other Western countries to subscribe \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Najibullah Zazi, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (educated in Britain), Faisal Shahzad, Major Nidal Malik Hasan \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in order to send the message that nowhere is safe for the Americans. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a <\/em>huge, preoccupying concern <\/em>for John Brennan and the rest of the Obama counterterrorism team. […]<\/em><\/p>\n

Which makes Inspire look anomalous. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not, apparently, online yet. Ambinder reports that a virus corrupted an attempted upload on extremist websites on Wednesday. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not apparently an as-Sahab product: It bears a banner of al-Malahem Media, <\/em>the publishing arm of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula<\/em>, a franchise of al-Qaida that trained Abdulmutallab on putting bombs in his underwear. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even more fishy: Al-Jazeera\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gregg Carlstrom <\/em>tweets<\/em> that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not al-Malahem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s typical logo.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is difficult at this point to confirm its authenticity,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says <\/em>Marc Lynch<\/em>, a George Washington University political science professor who specializes in Arabic-language media.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a Print Magazine that is going to be distributed in the United States — how?\u00c2\u00a0 Subscription service is pretty easily:\u00c2\u00a0 Heavily vetted in a plain brown paper bag and a generic company name, like pornographic and sex toy companies?\u00c2\u00a0deal with their mailings.\u00c2\u00a0 I imagine any subscribers would\u00c2\u00a0be hauled off to Gitmo in, like, 5 minutes upon delivery.<\/p>\n

In other words, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cancel your subscription to <\/em>Technical Mujahid<\/em><\/a> just yet. That magazine, at least, is <\/em>not afraid to be service-y<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I imagine this is true:
\nthe Internet Haganah reasonably points out that owning a copy of it might get you in trouble in some countries, so don’t<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, I do not believe that the magazine “Inspire” is real.\u00c2\u00a0 How can it be?\u00c2\u00a0 Nobody puts out an article entitled “How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” — do they?\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, there might be cultural differences I don’t understand regarding the pscyhotic. The magazine itself has a hefty feature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6451,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}