FREEradicals - ICSR Insight: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) releases new edition of Inspire magazine

ICSR Insight: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) releases new edition of Inspire magazine

Filed under: Radicalisation, Terrorism, UK, Yemen

In our latest Insight, ICSR Senior Fellow Shiraz Maher writes a lengthy analysis of the latest issue of AQAP's Inspire magazine. For the full PDF click here. Reproduced below is the executive summary.

• The latest edition of Inspire magazine calls for renewed terrorist attacks against the United States
including directions to ‘blow up Times Square’ and ‘pull off Mumbai [styled attack] near White House until martyrdom’.

• Anwar al-Awlaki, the fugitive American-Yemeni al-Qaeda ideologue, states that attacks should be directed against both government and civilian targets. This is supported in an accompanying article from AQAP’s head of religious affairs, Adil al-Abbab, discussing the jurisprudence on killing civilians.

• Recent terrorist attacks in Sweden and Britain are singled out for praise by AQAP coupled with
renewed threats.

• Roshonara Choudhary, who stabbed Stephen Timms MP, and Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, who led the abortive terrorist attack in Sweden, are celebrated as embodying AQAP’s spirit of ‘Open Source Jihad’ and displaying ‘borderless loyalty’.

• A new article by Anwar al-Awlaki incites Muslims in the West to jihad, marking an ongoing
campaign by him to produce a jurisprudence of jihad specifically tailored to Muslims in the West.

• The magazine republishes existing material from Osama bin Laden, Adam Gadahn, and chief
al-Qaeda strategist Abu Musab al-Suri. The inclusion of al-Suri’s work is highly significant, and is the second time Inspire has sought to popularise his work in the English language.

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