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Issue VII of 'Inspire,' the English-Language Magazine of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula-A Gener
by Steven Stalinsky
On September 27, 2011, the media wing of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the seventh issue of the English-language jihadist magazine Inspire.The cover of the 20-page issue, which is dated Fall 1432 (2011), shows an image of the World Trade Center made out of dollar signs. The cover story, written by editor-in-chief Yahya Ibrahim and titled "The Greatest Special Operation of All Time," is dedicated to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The magazine was released 16 days after the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and was provided exclusively to the Al-Fida forum, which is operated by Al-Qaeda's media company Al-Fajr. It can be assumed that the venue was Al-Fida because the main jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam, which released all previous issues of Inspire, went offline on September 26, 2011, after loading slowly for several days. A message posted by one of its administrators on Al-Fida claimed that Shumoukh Al-Islam had been shut down for maintenance and would be back online shortly. However, Al-Fida members speculated that Shumoukh had been the target of a cyber attack. The magazine was released about 24 hours after Shumoukh went offline.
Shumoukh reappeared online about five hours later, and this incident is similar to what happened prior to the release of the first issue of Inspire, in June 2010. According to media reports, a debate was underway about Inspire magazine within the U.S. government and military; there were also reports of the U.K. government's handling of online jihad, and Inspire magazine in particular. A June 2, 2011 article in The Guardianrevealed that U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander had argued that blocking the online release of the magazine was a legitimate counterterrorism objective, while the CIA argued that such an action would expose sources and methods and disrupt an important source of intelligence. According to the report, the CIA won out, and the proposal to block the magazine's online release was rejected. But as the debate was underway within the U.S. government, British government cyber-warriors went ahead with their own plan, and corrupted the original release.
The following is a general review of the seventh issue of Inspire:Letter From the Editor: 9/11 is "Merely An Episode in a Long, Protracted War"Issue VII of Inspire includes a letter from editor-in-chief Yahya Ibrahim stating that this issue is a "special supplement to the great events of the Expeditions of Washington DC and New York, as Shaykh Usama would call it, or simply 9/11. As America mourns and we celebrate this glorious event, we look into what 9/11 means ten years on." He praises Osama bin Laden, noting that "9/11 has left a permanent scar on the American psyche and will live long after in the hearts of every American. The pain, suffering and agony that Shakyh Usama brought to America is fair payback." He also warns that 9/11 was "merely an episode in a long, protracted war that started at the time of the Messenger of Allah."
About the Author
Steven Stalinsky is the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, memri.org. Read more about Issue VII of AQAP's Inspire magazine, memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/56....
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