Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom -- Al Qaeda's First English Magazine!

[Lemur]

This is deeply hilarious. AQ has published an English-language magazine (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/al-qaedas-first-english-language-magazine-is-here/59006) meant to recruit and inspire among Western muslims. I think they're gonna have to up their game. Publishing is a very competitive field.

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[drone]

I wonder if "Jihadi Experiences" is anything like "Letters to Penthouse". :inquisitive:

[Vladimir]

Awesome! Thanks.

[Hosakawa Tito]

How much is a subscription?

[Beskar]

Reminds me of Rory's signature.

[Gregoshi]

How much is a subscription?
$19.95 for a 12 month lifetime subscription.

[Lemur]

How much is a subscription?
I think the real question is, can you get it as a package deal with some other mags? 'Cause I think between the AQ monthly and, say, NAMBLA Bulletin, I could be real popular with my neighbors.

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Looks like you can download the entire PDF magazine here (http://www.archive.org/download/Inspire_06/inspired_text.pdf), estimated at 5 megs. (PDF warning. Obviously.)

[CountArach]

This just goes to show: The magazine industry is dead.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I think the magazine is run by the CIA. As a fishing fook - see who bites?, to steer jihadi subculture, to misinform, etc.



$19.95 for a 12 month lifetime subscription.:laugh4:


* Is it Halal to sell a life insurance that excludes death by suicide bomb?'*

[seireikhaan]

"Open Source Jihad". :inquisitive: I feel like there's a very obvious joke in this somewhere, but four hours of sleep is not being kind.

[Centurion1]

Its so ridiculous I doubt its real. I trust you lemur but this ispretty whacked out.

[Lemur]

Its so ridiculous I doubt its real. I trust you lemur but this ispretty whacked out.
Well, if it matters, a Yemeni scholar from Princeton (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/07/four-questions-for-yemen-scholar-gregory-johnsen/59046/) thinks it's real, and he's probably forgotten more about Arabian peninsula jihadis than you or I will ever learn.


First, the hodge-podge quality of the publication; it takes a little from here, a little from there, quoting Islamic scholars and clerics affiliated with Al Qaeda and those who are not:

It's similar to what Al Qaeda puts out in Arabic. They'll pull in stuff from what Bin Laden wrote, from what a Middle Eastern scholar wrote; the hodge-podge is very much in keeping with the editorial slant.

I asked if the "Make a Bomb in in the Kitchen of Your Mom" struck him as parody.

They've put out about 13 issues in Arabic, and in one of them that came out recently, the head of [Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula] makes a very similar point, saying that it takes very little money and expertise to build a bomb; you could do it from items out of your mother's kitchen.

What about the suspicion on jihadist websites that the magazine is a fake?

There are very few websites that are up, and these people tend to live in a conspiratorial mindset. They're always accusing each other of being a spy.

And what about the significance? Should Western intelligence agencies take this seriously?

What this means is that we're seeing the culmination of something a lot of people in Western intelligence agencies have been suspecting for a while. Al Qaeda has been able to recruit and welcome into their ranks people who can speak fluent English, idiomatic English. This is something where, in my view, Al Qaeda is really able to expand the potential pool of recruits. In the past, they'd have needed to be able to read a lot of Arabic, which is something that [many potential recruits] did not do well. This magazine opens a whole new line of potential recruits for the organization.

[Tellos Athenaios]

It was probably put together by someone from the movie industry: it uses Trajan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8).

[Banquo's Ghost]

Is it available on the iPad yet?

[Vladimir]

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[gaelic cowboy]

lifetime subscription for a suicide bomber magazine??????????????????????

[Fragony]

Paper tiger

[Vladimir]

lifetime subscription for a suicide bomber magazine??????????????????????

Money back guarantee!

[Fragony]

$19.95 for a 12 month lifetime subscription.

Don't ever do that again rofletov

[Gregoshi]

Is it available on the iPad yet?
Only in iRan. However, I hear is always causes the BSOD and blows out Windows in a three block radius.

"rofletov" Frag?

[Vladimir]

"rofletov" Frag?

I think he's been affected by the Russian spy scandal.

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Can you spell s-t-e-g-a-n-o-g-r-a-p-h-y? I knew you could. :)

[Lemur]

Can you spell s-t-e-g-a-n-o-g-r-a-p-h-y? I knew you could. :)
THere's a lot of speculation that U.S. milhackers trashed the PDF. I dunno; the AQ crew is so incompetent, I don't see why they couldn't have messed up the PDFing process on their own time.

Steganography? Hmm. Remember, these are basically redneck fundamentalist nutjobs; not the sorts you associate with cryto-savvy techniques. In point of fact, the thing that seems to preserve the AQ network is how un-tech they've gotten. All of which is a long way of saying, I don't think so.

[Vladimir]

THere's a lot of speculation that U.S. milhackers trashed the PDF. I dunno; the AQ crew is so incompetent, I don't see why they couldn't have messed up the PDFing process on their own time..

I guess that adds credibility to the argument that this is a "legit" publication. I was more concerned about a virus but meh :shrug: .

[Jolt]

Brilliant. :grin:

[Vladimir]

Steganography? Hmm. Remember, these are basically redneck fundamentalist nutjobs; not the sorts you associate with cryto-savvy techniques. In point of fact, the thing that seems to preserve the AQ network is how un-tech they've gotten. All of which is a long way of saying, I don't think so.

For what it's worth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography Look for Al Qaeda.

:shrug:

[Lemur]

For what it's worth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography Look for Al Qaeda.

:shrug:
Key quote from your linked article: [T]here are no known instances of terrorists using computer steganography.

These are not clever or technically apt people. The day they discover Sourceforge (http://steghide.sourceforge.net/) we will all be in trouble.

[Vladimir]

Key quote from your linked article: [T]here are no known instances of terrorists using computer steganography.

These are not clever or technically apt people. The day they discover Sourceforge (http://steghide.sourceforge.net/) we will all be in trouble.

Not my linked article but the linked article. Take it for what it's worth. That sounds familiar...:thinking:

[Lemur]

Not my linked article but the linked article. Take it for what it's worth. That sounds familiar...:thinking:
Apologies; I wasn't trying to imply that you own the Wiki article somehow, I just meant that you provided the link. No offense meant.

[Lemur]

Apparently AQ aren't the only people using the amazing power of magazines (http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-06/donkeygate-bush-officials-barred-democrat-mascot-according-to-randall-lanes-the-zeroes/?cid=hp:vertical:r) to win hearts and minds:


[T]he State Department had allocated more than $4 million a year to launch a magazine about American culture, which would be translated into Arabic and sold across the Arab world. (A TV station, Al Hurra, and Radio Sawa were launched around the same time.) Other than a corny name, Hi!, the one English word everyone on the planet knows, it was an empty vessel.

To fill it, the State Department hired a highly regarded Washington-based custom media company, TMG, which in turn hired me. [...] I would craft America’s public face for the part of the world that hated us most, as translated via the cover and substance of a glossy magazine. [...]

One of my favorite sections loosely translated to “Window on America.” It was a simple conceit: a photo essay showing what America actually looks like, unfiltered. A bass fishing tournament, a breast-cancer walk, the Puerto Rican Day parade—these were exotic images to most Arabs, too often poisoned about the United States by their inflammatory local press. But during one review meeting, held before a star chamber of 10 high-level State Department officials, the co-leader specifically took offense to a photograph from a classic Western scene: campers and pack mules heading out on a rugged weekend expedition.

Our team always remained vigilant about cultural sensibilities, avoiding the bottoms of shoes, or bare arms, or other seemingly innocuous images that could backfire with the Arab audience. This official’s concerns, however, were more parochial. She held up the offending photo, as wholesome as a Norman Rockwell painting, and pointed to a pack mule that, by other names, might be known as a donkey. This has to go, she said. Too pro-Democrat. And out it went.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Our team always remained vigilant about cultural sensibilities, avoiding the bottoms of shoes, or bare arms, or other seemingly innocuous images that could backfire with the Arab audience. This official’s concerns, however, were more parochial. She held up the offending photo, as wholesome as a Norman Rockwell painting, and pointed to a pack mule that, by other names, might be known as a donkey. This has to go, she said. Too pro-Democrat. And out it went.

Might that be described as the elephant in the room?

[Beskar]

Might that be described as the elephant in the room?

Definitely looks like some one is making an ass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey) of themselves though.

[Reference to the Article, not our wonderful BQ.]

[Gregoshi]

Party poopers. :thumbsdown:

[Tellos Athenaios]

Might that be described as the elephant in the room?

But can you really be so sure: many so-called elephants have since been accused of being rhinos?

[Vladimir]

The only thing preventing the elephants from going extinct is that the donkeys keep making asses out of themselves.

[Skullheadhq]

"Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom"
The Anarchist Cookbook will not be too happy with this competition from the Middle East...