This new edition includes "The Ultimate Mowing Machine," which describes how to use a pickup truck "as a mowing machine, not to mow grass, but mow down the enemies of Allah." It says "to achieve maximum carnage, you need to pick up as much speed as you can while still retaining good control . . . to strike as many people as possible in your first run."
The magazine includes two articles by renegade U.S. cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is on a U.S. government kill-or-capture list for his suspected roles in the attempted Christmas Day airliner bombing, and inspiring the Fort Hood shooting of 13 troops. Army Major Nidal Hassan has been charged in the killings.
There's also an article by the so-called American al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn.
Another American, Samir Khan, describes how he went from online jihadist in North Carolina to full-time terrorist in Yemen. The article is entitled, "I Am Proud to be a Traitor to America."
The series of articles, combined with a number of recent releases on an al Qaeda version of YouTube, are "broadening their potential audience," Mr. Boucek says. "They are brilliant at amplifying their message."
In the introduction to the latest magazine, the editors boast of "recent U.S. assessments" that declared al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula "one of the most dangerous branches of al Qaeda." It concludes, "You haven't seen anything yet."
Terrorism expert Paul Pillar of Georgetown University said the way the magazine was written struck him as aimed as much at garnering U.S. media attention as to inspire would-be militants. The last Inspire magazine drew as much or more comment by Western media outlets than it did on jihadi websites.
